To wonder how dh can spend 2 hours in Tesco buying about 30 items?!?!

[GordontheGopher]

I wrote him a list. I even put the items in the order he would find them in the shop.

How?!?!

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I can do that though, I sort of go into a trance in big supermarkets and walk around really slowly looking at everything but not really focusing on anything really, it is strange and a bit scary!

He's even got ds with him which was supposed to make him go faster.

Does he sit in the car park afterwards and scoff treats? My dp is always popping to the shops for a couple of things & taking ages. I didn't understand it at first but then I borrowed the car a couple of times straight after he got back from the shops and found all sorts of food wrappers hidden in the glove box

Well he does often come back with lots of things that weren't on the list... apparently I never buy him nice things to eat .

My DH does the same. I will give him a list which should only take about 20 minutes to get (including travelling there) and he is gone well over an hour! He says he looks at all the electrical items !

Ours has a cafe with lots of free newspapers to read?

Is it a big tescos with an electrical or toy dept? If so then there you go.

He's probably been looking at all the CDs. I should know better next time - he was supposed to be at ds's toddler group at 9.30!

My DH always wastes time looking at the magazines. It's not unknown for me to start shopping, merrily chatting away to him only to realise that he disappeared into the newsagent bit at the front of the shop and I've been walking around talking to myself in the fruit section

I spent hours walking up and down isles trying to find things...

DH is the same always goes off list too. How can I convince him things are not a bargain if we don't need them even when they are bogof.

i sent dh to waitrose for sunday lunch the other week, he called me 6 TIMES to confirm a very detailed list. the last time he called i asked who he was speaking to and he said a young lady was helping him. when he returned i questioned further and he had dragged an assistant around with him to do his shopping. about 3 bags in 5 mins, the cheek of him.

My DP is the worst shopper ever. Not only does he take ages, he also makes the maddest interpretation of the list possible - eg if I put "pasta" he will buy some kind of weird ready-made noodles in a pouch - 1 serving - etc etc. Or he ignores the list completely ad comes back with £100 worth of luxurious snacks, magazines, chutneys and entertaining kitchen utensils but somehow manages to avoid buying anything you could make into a meal. The thought of actually having to look out for special offers and bogofs sends him into a panic so he doesn't bother. I do the food shop every week with a manic 2.11yo DS and it is easier than having DP do it.

Yes I normally get it delivered but seeing as he was home to help me out (had ERPC yesterday) I thought I'd make the most of him. However it was far more stressful!

He has finally arrived home now (left at 8am) so I am going to scrutinise the shopping. Will report back. I've already seen some errant pain au raisins.

my DH always looking at the DVD's and also buys lots of things not on the list which are all the unhealthy foods, crisps, sweets, chocolate eclairs and those 2 for 1 offers. Shopping bill now almost twice what it was when I was doing it.

Well apart from buying 5 packs of organix cheese snacks (ds has had dairy allergy since birth ) he didn't do too badly.

I think you're getting confused about how guys shop for groceries and how women shop for groceries. We guys tend to view a solo shopping trip as an unsupervised opportunity to (a) buy the stuff that we're not normally allowed to buy and (b) buy fun stuff that catches our eyes as we wander around. We also tend to wander through each aisle in turn in a state of wide-eyed curiosity that make (a) and (b) much more likely... "Ooh, that aisle with the shiny things looks interesting, I wonder what's down there?". Without the voice on your shoulder saying things like "No honey, we don't need a second electrical chicken baster" we've got free rein to act on our whims. Quite frankly, I'm surprised he's back so soon!

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i agree with cestlavie
dh can take hours in supermarket am sure he compares how many beans are in each tin
though he always comes back with loads of wine so its not so bad..

30 items in 2 hours is relatively good going

cestlavie, I can quite believe that. I guess as I normally do the shop its like going into an aladdins cave for him.

Lovely but as he also cooks I'd prefer not to be eating at midnight!

Sounds like your dh food shops like me. Even for quick top up shops I go out with a list of 3 essentials and come back with about 10 items in my bag having spent a fortune on extravagances that catch my eye.

Hence why dh does all out food shooping online.

I'll let him enjoy it for a few more weeks then he can stay in with dd and I'll go back to the shopping or we will also end up broke.

I could easily spend 2 nours shopping and taking children makes a shopping trip longer,

I sent dh with a list
he came back with nine tomatoes, I'd written "vine" tomatoes....

My DH is really very good. He tries very hard to get everything on the list (even when my daughter wrote something that looked like Dog Boms he searched the pet aisle looking for some special treat... she meant bones and it was a joke...)

He sometimes goes overboard on 2-for-1s but nearly always things that (a) we do actually use and (b) aren't perishable. Luckily we have room in the garage to store enough fairy liquid to last a decade...why anyone with a dishwasher would want 6 large bottles eludes me.

And he's quick about it! Rarely strays from the list... though last time he actually added a bunch of flowers. Nice ones!!!

Aren't I lucky, I've got the exception that proves the rule. The only gripe is that he can't bring himself to take shopping bags and so the bulk buys come in yukky placcy bags. Oh, and he's completely incapable of putting the stuff away. But thats probably just as well, cos if he put things away no-one would then know where they were (just been reading about Male Fridge Blindness)