Last night, BF and I went to the grocery store. We decided on soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. I hate buying cheese. It’s so expensive, and I rarely eat it. So I wanted to buy marble cheese (that way I could use the extra it for making pizza another night). BF wanted old cheddar cheese. I HATE old cheddar, but since he doesn’t like marble, I was willing to compromise and get a small block of medium cheddar.
BF got upset and said that he doesn’t like eating cheap cheese. And that’s fine. There are some things I refuse to budge on as well (like buying expensive cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches). So we ended up going to Subway for dinner instead. Which is funny, because my $6 sub would have cost the same as a block of cheese that would have made dinner for the both of us, and pizza later on. And I’m going to have to buy that cheese anyway because I want to make pizza for us before he leaves next Thursday.
But it got me thinking about buying groceries. We talked about how living together will help us save on groceries as well. We won’t be tempted to dine out as much, because we’ll have more time to prepare meals together, instead of shuffling between our separate places.
My groceries are at least $150 less per month than his. Not that that’s a bad thing. He’s a guy, and he’s much bigger than me, so he eats more food. He also cooks a lot more meat than me (not that that’s a bad thing, I should probably eat more meat – but it’s expensive!), and buys different things. For example, he cooks with butter. I cook with soy substitute butter. He buys organic produce. I buy my produce from the Asian grocery store. He buys pork chops. I HATE pork chops. He eats a ton of yogurt. I would rather eat nothing than eat yogurt. I think it’s going to be an interesting adjustment for the both of us. And we’ll have to find regular dishes that work for us.
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