Time’s up
I considered it a shopping spree. I was told I had 15 minutes to load my cart with as many items I needed from the supermarket. As I entered the store my mind went blank. This was not helping.
I finally decided that going to the deli counter would be a bad idea as there was a line there and I knew it would take too much time. How should I manage my 15 minutes? The question was, should I shop for most essential items or easy to grab and put in the cart items.
I decided that my best strategy was to just go up and down the aisles and grab whatever I thought it was we needed.
The produce aisle was easy. I added tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, bananas, and oranges. In hindsight, it probably wasn’t a good idea to put the tomatoes in first at the bottom of the cart.
Then came meats. I limited myself to some chicken cutlets and ground turkey. Any more and we wouldn’t have had any room to store them safely at home.
The next aisle I attempted was the pasta and sauce aisle. I grabbed a number of boxes of pasta and jars of spaghetti sauce, diced tomatoes, pizza sauce, and tomato paste.
Then came soups. In that aisle, I grabbed at least ten cans of soup. I should have paid more attention to the type of soup I was grabbing. Consumés do not make for good meals. I did manage to get some cans of vegetable broth. They would be useful.
In the canned fruit and vegetable aisle, I just grabbed whatever cans I could find quickly. Again, probably paying more attention to what was in the cans would have been a wiser choice. I guess our future will involve eating a lot of baked beans.
As I like baking, I added a lot of bags of flour and cake mixes to my cart from the baking aisle. The cart was getting pretty full.
Bread, eggs, butter, yogurts, cheeses, milk, Silk, and orange juice, finished out the dairy row.
With a minute to spare, I rushed down the soda aisle, grabbed some 6-packs of Coke, ending up in the frozen food aisle, where bags of frozen dinners and ice cream topped off my wagon as the time ran out.
It did take me a while to check out and pay for all the food I got. Then I went with it all back to my car.
“It took you long enough, you were only supposed to be in there for fifteen minutes!” said my wife who was waiting for me in the car. “Did you get the Coffee filters, I sent you in for?”
I replied, “I may have forgotten that. I forgot to put them on my list.”
“What list?” was her response, “You mean the one you left at home?”
“Yeah, that one. But don’t worry, I’m pretty sure I remembered everything else.”
