Do you go food shopping as a family?

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Have realised that we never do. Either I go with Dd, 6 or Dh will nip to the shops for the odd bits needed or I will do the big shop on some Saturdays whilst Dd stays with Dh.
Is that weird, seems a bit sad

Nope. Totally go alone. In extreme circumstances if have to go with DC they end up throwing things in the trolley that they haven't asked, I end up shouting saying 'put that back'. They say 'just one more thing mummy pleeeasseee'. It's tiring! DH will just loiter around me all tense and annoyed if I stop and look at options. I like to compare value for money whereas he will just see cheese and shove whatever is the nearest to him. We do however go shopping together in shopping centres, for clothes and other stuff which we all enjoy, but not food. I don't know why it's different with food but it just is!

Its fine for you, but the rest of us, instead of having to navigate one person in front of the shelf we want, have to navigate three. I have 6 kids, kids are annoying to their parents and massively annoying to everyone else. I frankly dont want to experience your kids playing up in a supermarket when I purposely left mine at home.

I won't even take DH if it can be avoided, I have been known to tell him that if he didn't leave right now, I would call for security to evict him. I may also have used the words fuck off or die once or twice, he's a bit annoying in supermarkets. Mr Tesco comes these days so only do top ups

I go on my own. Can’t bare seeing large families cluttering up the aisles disagreeing with each others purchases and getting in the way. I want to go in and leave as quickly as possible.

Shopping with family only happens at Christmas…only middle child because he is a foodie ..he will be in Oz this Christmas so it will be just me ..happy with that !

Oh yes, and dh is banned with coming shopping as the bill becomes huge.

I parent my children in the supermarket just like I do at home. They are more than capable of behaving around a supermarket.

I have always gone alone, exH never darkened the doors of a supermarket in 20 years, rarely helped me carry the bags in and never helped me to unpack “because it stresses me out to see how much you spend” (for a normal weekly shop. Twat).

Now I generally try to do it online but sometimes if I don’t get my shit together I take DCs 9 and 6 - it’s fine but not ideal.

I do like going with DP though. After all those years of doing these chores alone it is nice to have someone who wants to be with me, wants to do the grocery shopping for me and carry the bags 🥹 So yes I do now see the appeal of being the annoying couple debating over the mince 😂

Was waiting for that!

I did too. Didnt stop two of them falling out, or getting in someones way, or getting in a strop because I said no to something.....ya know, how kids do. Because despite however capable they are of behaving, it doesnt mean that they always do. And your definition of "behaving" may well not be the same as other peoples. Parenting has nothing to do with the fact that kids will be kids and that is annoying and inconvenient to other people just trying to go, shop and leave. Just because you thinks its a nice thing to do doesnt mean that everyone else has to agree with you.

ETA notice that you havent bothered to address the fact that instead of you and a trolley, everyone around you has to navigate your two older kids too.

Just No!
It is not a family experience in 2024.
It was not a great experience in the 80’s when I was small ( no online shopping, and few places to choose from). I did not enjoy the family shop, my mum used to keep us entertained by sending us off down different isles to fetch things.
We also had no car …(big family, lived in the city£., no/ few people carrier cars that could ferry a large family) so lots of small and frequent shopping trips . We were like little Sherpa donkeys loaded up and taking the food home. Silver cross prams had huge baskets 😂 and that helped with heavy stuff (corona fizzy, giant soap powder boxes)
I thank God for innovation (home
delivery and people carriers).
When I do take my DCs to the supermarket, they are hilarious..can’t believe their eyes at the huge selection and my basket grows much higher than anticipated (with all the things that they didn’t know existed or have seen on YouTube/TikTok and think that they have a struck a rare gold find) 😂

Of course not! Kids stay home or do something else with other half

I like shopping together on occasion. I wouldn’t like to do it every week. There’s nothing sad about not doing it, though.

About 1 out of 5 times? I prefer on my own, but I recommend everyone go out together every once in a while for practical reasons (people can grab what they may usually forget to add to the list/divide and conquer to make the chore faster and occasionally fun on a family day) or for fun/closeness (find a new recipe you all think sounds appealing and find all the ingredients together.)

God no. Hate it at the best of times let alone with the whole family tagging along.

And the hapless husband following and pricking about and getting in the way and totally oblivious of their surroundings.

I work on a supermarket checkout and whole families coming to my checkout annoy me so much.

God, no. I can't think of anything worse.

Not really. I used to walk to the corner with my two daycare kids to buy fresh bread for lunch, but not a big shop.

I don't know why people take kids shopping if they don't have to but I am not particularly bothered by it either. However what I really don't understand or like is the amount of people who come.in shopping as a family late in the evening/night. Two adults and a couple of kids under 7 do not need to be out shopping at 9 or 10 pm

I have a second job in retail. I am always amazed at the families that drag a tired whinging toddler round a supermarket at 8.30pm . Why doesn’t one parent stop at home and put the child to bed . It’s hardly a family night out !

Absolutely not! That sounds like a nightmare, I do the food shopping by myself.

God no. I avoid it at all costs and do online as much as I can

Don't get me started on self checkouts with young children scanning items or swiping cards VERY SLOWLY.

My DH and I always do the grocery shop together, and now bring along our little bub. I drive, he does the cooking and we both decide on our meal plan together as we shop.
We enjoy it and don't see it as a chore at all. Each to their own, surely.

I hate going to the supermarket but I have to drive my DH, and therefore all our kids come too.

I hate it because at least 3 hours of my weekend is dedicated to the experience, rather than the disliking the stress of it all.