Supermarket checkout - embarrassing?

[greenishfing]

At this time of year when I generally buy negligible amounts of fruit, veg and salad but kilos of sugar to make jam and pints of cream to go with my strawberries I sometimes feel embarrassed when I see other customers eyeing up my purchases as I go through the checkout.

Does anyone else feel the same?

[Alison]

I don't use supermarkets

[Nicos]

Not with sugar...but with several litres of vodka and gin and calvados I do!
...especially when I go back for more the following week

[Mr Bones]

Our shopping looks so lacking on the checkout belt, no fruit, no veg. Sometimes do wonder what other folk might make of it.

[Ananke]

Yes! Kilos and kilos of sugar for pickles, jams, chutneys and wine

When I'm making cheese I use 20/22 litres of milk, that gets some looks too

[Ananke]

Not with sugar...but with several litres of vodka and gin and calvados I do!
...especially when I go back for more the following week

I think I'd be following you home

[Thelma Sanders]

I don't use supermarkets

There's nowhere else to shop here any farm shops are much to far away for a non-driver.

[arpoet]

Being an early bird we go to the supermarket about 7-30 am. Its dead easy to shop and you never have to suffer the queues.
I only buy carrots and mushrooms from them cant grow mushrooms or carrots and I like the carrots they do as they come from Yorkshire.
Fruit, (plus any other veg I need but don't grow), meat and fish I get from the market in Sheffield, and when I want tatties I buy a sack from a local garden centre who has a regular grower nearby.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Doesn't bother me what other folks think but it is so satisfying going round the fruit and veg section thinking, I'm self sufficient in this, I'm self sufficient in that. It's really when all the effort brings the reward.

[Bex]

Doesn't bother me what other folks think but it is so satisfying going round the fruit and veg section thinking, I'm self sufficient in this, I'm self sufficient in that. It's really when all the effort brings the reward.

Completely agree. My shopping consists of fish for me and meat for the kids, rice, pasta. Oh and dog food for the dogs obviously.

[lottie dolly]

have heard of peeps being conciouse of large packs of loo rolls,my worst nightmare was going to pay,then realize the card is at home,a quick dash across the car park for DH one,always check these days.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Doesn't bother me what other folks think but it is so satisfying going round the fruit and veg section thinking, I'm self sufficient in this, I'm self sufficient in that. It's really when all the effort brings the reward.

Love walking round the fruit and veg section exclaiming 'Wow! £2.50 for 3 sticks of rhubarb!!' etc etc.

[susieq100]

Love walking round the fruit and veg section exclaiming 'Wow! £2.50 for 3 sticks of rhubarb!!' etc etc.

Yes, I am always horrified at the price of runner beans and how few you get for the money! I can eat half a carrier bag full ON MY OWN. My shopping is mostly vinegar (gallons of it and the cheapest is M********'s little bottles at 21p each so I buy loads) and about 4 bags of sugar every week - I have been stockpiling for ages. Oh and ginger beer and a bottle of wine. A very balanced diet I think

[sparrow100]

In a couple of months I will be buying ridiculous amounts of gin, red wine and brandy for sloe and quince-based liquids. Am thinking of getting it online to avoid the shameful clanking down the street. Kilner jars are at the ready...

[Kirk]

Don't have a problem. I often get 2 carrots or 2 tomato's.
The tomato's are for putting on crispbreads with a couple of slices of mozarella cheese, perhaps a litle basil (garden).

Basically 1 tomato and half the mozarella one day the rest the next. Find it is better then working out what to cook for a lunch.

Never seem to get round to trying the carrot salad I get the carrots for.

I will also get a small head of brocolli, for a simple stir fry = brocolli and ginger with a little plum sauce.

So getting small amounts is normal for me, and it rarely goes to waste.