Grocery Shopping

Yesterday I did my grocery shopping and what a nightmare shopping has become. To start with I always shop at the same place because I know where everything is.

Well the Tesco I shop at has started changing things around and I am the type of person who hates change. I live by schedules and that is how I raised my kids when they were babies. I always had a schedule and if anything came up to wreck havoc with my schedule my whole day would be screwed.

So this brings us back to shopping. I hate grocery shopping!! Especially now with food prices going up. Not that I buy a whole hell of a lot of food mostly crap for the kids. Veggies never enter my cart cause we don't like them, but in the past month I have cut down drastically on the crap for the kids. My son usually works late or comes back late so I don't have to cook for him. I now only cook for myself and the 2 youngest ones, which is a pain because the youngest one is picky.

Back to shopping again. The reason it was a nightmare is, I had wanted to go shopping and race around Tesco and get out of there within an hour. Unfortunately with things being changed around I now have to hunt for the things I want. Why the hell do they have to change everything. Did they do some kind of anal study and decided that the chips weren't placed in the right spot? A spot for maximum exposure or do the companies come in and check around and say "Hey I don't want my stuff here people won't be able to find it!" Don't worry we will find your crap. We go up and down every isle to make sure we find your crap.

The other thing that pissed me off yesterday was the price of chicken. Now I have never spent more the six or seven ringgit on a chicken. Yesterday I nonchalantly picked a chicken and gave it to the guy to be weighed and cut. I didn't really pay much attention so when he gave me back my chicken I almost shit my pants because the chicken was RM20.10. One lousy chicken and since it had already been cut I just took it anyways, and what about cheese! HUH ! I like to make mac and cheese once in a while but the cost of Kraft Cheddar brick has gone up to over RM9.00. Did they start putting gold in the cheese or something? Another thing we like to eat a certain brand of margarine and for the past month they have not had one tub available. Why! I had settle for some other crappy ass margarine. It better taste good.

When I finally made to the cashier and everything had been tallied the bill came to almost RM300!!!! Even after drastically cutting back. Hell if I cut back any more we'll be eating grass. I don't want to eat grass we hate veggies!!