Getting Used to Changes

One of the perks of moving to our new place is everything is so accessible unlike when we’re still in Cainta.  There you can’t buy anything unless you ride a tricycle or a jeep.  Here we only have to walk in order to buy meat and vegetables.   Z’s school is also a short walking distance away and even the barber shop and the salon is within sight.  The grocery, on the other hand, is entirely a different matter.  We need to endure an hour of traffic (at the worst scenario) to go to the nearest SM.  We’re almost out of stock of items like milk, canned goods, noodles, soap, vitamins, and biscuits but until now we haven’t set any plans to go grocery shopping. We’re hesitant to do our grocery at SM because the goods are more expensive there. Oh well, I guess that’s one of the changes we have signed up for since we decided to move here.

Grocery versus Wet Market Shopping

Every wife and mother must deal with grocery shopping. I find it generally a happy experience – until I find myself at the counter wondering how much the grocery bill is going to be this time. Why is it that we only get to know how much we have to pay at the checkout counter anyway? I think it’s the supermarket’s way of robbing us. I demand that our shopping carts have sensors that would add up everything we put in it. That way we’ll know how much up to the last centavo we would be paying at the counter.

So how much did our grocery bill cost us the last time? It’s P4,000 and that doesn’t include meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables which we buy separately in the wet market. Look at some of the stuff we buy. That’s not really healthy right? Sometimes I want to buy grocery shopping altogether and buy everything in the wet market. There we can buy the freshest food and avoid snacks like these and processed food which we buy over and over every month. Do you think we can survive? How about you? What’s in your grocery cart?