What can you tell about a person from looking in their shopping trolly?

[AgentZigzag]

Just for Methods

The bit right at the front of the trolley packed with enough fruit and veg to keep 10 people going for 9 days (by my standards) - obviously a health obsessed freak with control issues.

Meal for one, telly guide and family pack of doritos - - unless they've managed to offload DP/DC for a night alone, and then it's woohoo

I love seeing teenagers mooching about trying to work out whether pooling their cash will give them enough to get a can of redbull to drink down the park

And what's with the people who buy like 30 bottles of shampoo and two tins of dog food?

I've never been able to suss them, but love trying to think of outlandish ways they might be using the items

Ready made mashed potatoes never spell good news IMHO.

Oh god... people like you terrify me.

I was in the supermarket earlier with a small trolley of

a spatula, condoms, marshmallows, petit pois and toilet cleaner.

Judge as you will...

Good grief bethelbeth, Saturday nights at your house sound wild!

I used to be partial to a bit of the old Smash, but DH is such a judgy twat he's banned (yes banned, I should leave him shouldn't I?) me from buying it.

He does make the best mashed tate In The World though, so I shouldn't complain.

method so wild I'm typing on mumsnet with one hand and eating marshmallows by the fistload with the other

It was stirfry for dinner tonight(hence the pois) I had melted my spatula and it was my turn to clean the bathroom earlier. The marshmallows have sealed the deal.

Noone ever told me that this is what 25 was going to be like!

methodsandmaterials, my mum buys my nana ready made mashed potatoes because she has weak wrists (nearly 90 but fiercely independant) - can't lift bags of spuds easily, never mind mash the potatoes into a creamy lather as she'd like. It's either that, or don't eat mashed potatoes unless she's at my parent's house - not much fun.

Convenience food isn't always about laziness, you know...

People will have noted the contents and drawn their own conclusions.

Awww bless 'em mary, they always look so skint that it makes me come over all motherly and want to go and give them a fiver

i love looking at other peoples trolleys. i don't know why but i always have nose an imagine what their plans are.

fgfr, I have absolutely nothing against ready made mashed potatoes. My comment was a cheap reference to a thread which inspired this one. Very tacky of me I know but no offense intended!

Yeah beth, but on the bright side, you didn't just buy any old bag o'peas, you bought petite pois, a far superior product which obviously shows what discerning taste you have.

methodsandmaterials - oh! i see.

for what it's worth, i used to be all judgey pants about mashed potatoes too - i was doing shopping with my mum (who shops for my nana) and i snorted as we paused at the mashed potato bit in the chiller section, and said "who'd buy that crap" - and my mum turned around and said "actually, me" and then explained why. feel bad, me? you betcha

Too late for backpeddling now bethelbeth. My spreadsheet entry has been made.

Hah I used to eat deb mash potatoes in the bag. So tear open bag pour in boiling water and stir. I think deb is the oz equivalent of smash.

Means you only have the spoon to wash up.

Sorry frgr, didn't mean to get methods into trouble The Other Thread.

Should have put it in OP.

agentzz : troublemaker

Ok, copied from my receipt from this evenings shop

Ready to Roast Potatoes with Goose fat. (from the 'richer than you' range, as my neighbour calls it)

Special edition Absolut vodka

Bag of ready chopped carrots

Local paper

3 comic relief laughing furry ball things

6 bottles Sanex shower gel

Value blue loo

sun dried tomatoes in olive oil

crumpets

a cauliflower

boursin

a lemon

McVities Ginger cake

What does that say about me? I wouldn't mind, but I only went in to get a paper, a lemon and some bin bags (and I forgot them!)

'Means you only have the spoon to wash up.'

And not having to clear up afterwards has to be on an equal footing with not having to cook it yourself.

Especially if you're young and it might impact on your drinking time

Eeek, DD1 likes reading what people have bought from the receipts on the floor emma

What have I subconsiously done to the poor love??

(set her up for a lifetime of judging on MN of course )

emma: good with getting in 5 a day, possibly compulsive showerer, watch for alcoholic tendencies

Ah those were the days. I used to drink some pretty vile crap as well. Surprised any braincells survived university.

We used to finish lectures, go home eat deb, go to work, then drink/party till 6am then get up at 8am, eat Maccas hashbrowns for breakfast and back to lectures.

Now it is all nana naps and vegetables.

My DS always comments loudly on what other people take out of their trollies and put on the conveyor belt - Oh we have that, what is that for and, (I quote) "Why have they got so many bottles of alcohol, are they having a party" - thanks son...

methods ha ha!
Sanex is half price in Sains at the mo! Normally £3
Crumpets with Boursin and sd toms - my guilty pleasure.
Ginger cake BOGOF - (Have you ever tried crubling it to go in stuffing for chiken)
Carrots and pots - can't be arsed to prep them tomorrow.
Lemon - to go in vodka The new Absolut bottle is really pretty...
Comic relief things to drive my sister mad for dear niece and nephews.

My housemate eats ready-mashed potato. She also eats ready chopped onions, and rice that you put in the microwave and peas from a tin which she microwaves then pours into a bowl and eats WHILE THE PEAS ARE STILL SWIMMING IN THE MANKY MICROWAVED TIN WATER WHICH SHE THEN DRINKS.

There's no excuse for that behaviour. None.

You're making me pine for the days when we had hours to crimp/backcomb hair/do slap (can't be a saddo and go out too early) with a few bottles of merrydown/thunderbird morloth

I love stories about the DC passing innocent judgement on shopping,

'You don't need another bottle of wine Mummy, you bought that big bottle yesterday'