One thing this season of life is affording me is time to grocery shop uninterrupted. WHAT A LUXURY. Unfortch, I am squandering that luxury on utter bullshit. BUT IT IS FUN.
I went to Costco before my meetings the other morning, and LOOK AT THIS PARKING LOT!
IHO 5 on a Friday, here are 5 categories of totally happy but totally non essential things I bought (BY MYSELF) at Trader Joe's:
(Also this podcast episode about TJ's is fascinating).
1. Self care:
TJ's face masks are my ride-or-die, and now Dorothy likes them, too. I also snagged a vanilla pumpkin candle for the stovetop and a pumpkin hand cream for me and a Laneige knock off lip mask in cinnamon roll for Dorothy (who is a Laneige stan, so we shall see)
2. Frozens:
3. Things I actually needed to make dinner:
4. SNAAAAAAAACKS
I am a sucker for the Pumpkin Walks into a Bar bars and the pumpkin pancake mix. I also love the fall leaf chips. The candy is for poker night. The kids love the tiny chocolate chip cookies, and Coop is the honey roasted peanuts eater. Dorothy's thing is the chocolate pretzels and the pirate's booty. The sugar cookie dough balls are for Minnie to have a fun Friday thing since she's not invited to poker night.
5. Actual grocery items that I might use later:
bananas because the ones from Costco go from green to brown, spaghetti for whenever. Fusilli and pumpkin pasta sauce as a quick dinner option, a variety of lunch meat (I cannot quit lunch meat), cooked lentils from the produce section-- these are so delightfully easy to throw in salads or make into a burrito or burrito bowl.
$200 of totally random things-- but at least there is a coherent meal and a few other meal starter ingredients-- could be so much sillier, I guess.
Was Costco even open? I have never seen mine like that. I feel like Engie just slagged on a book because in it, the character was in a quiet, mostly empty Costco and she said that wasn’t realistic. HA! Maybe the author is from your town?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a pretty good TJs haul. Thanks for the rec on the face masks.
Yes, Sarah sent me this photo and I may have replied with a swear word. I've NEVER seen a Costco parking lot like that IN MY LIFE.
DeleteYes that's the first thing I thought of- Engie will be intrigued (and suspicious) to see an empty Costco parking lot!
ReplyDeleteNice job on the TJs run- I've been known to go there and spend tons of money, only to realize I have nothing for dinner. I do like those fall leaves chips! And I want that pumpkin candle!
What time does your Costco open?!?! Ours doesn't open until ten -- TEN -- and it's always completely full by about 9:45. (Because TEN is ridiculous.)
ReplyDeleteTJs and I are not on speaking terms because the last FOUR TIMES I have been there (well, once it was my husband who went) they have been completely out of raw cashews and I loooooooove raw cashews.
The lip mask is good! I tried it today. Also, all my children eat for breakfast are those silver dollar pancakes. Definitely what they missed most during Covid times when we were only doing curbside (which TJ does not do). (Michelle)
ReplyDeletePumpkin walks into a bar bar, lol. I don't even know if that's for eating or putting on your skin, and I do not care. Our Costco's parking lot is also never that empty. Trader Joe's, *hmphs* in Canadian.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read the title, I assumed this post was about clothes found at TJ Maxx. Ha. I don’t go to Trader Joe’s as the one near us is not really near us. The name of the pumpkin walks into a bar bars is fire. Love it.
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