Jun 23 2009
Don’t grocery shop on an empty stomach.
Trust me, your wallet will regret it. This past weekend, I bought groceries to refill our bare refridgerator and cupboards, but did so without having eaten yet that day. I wanted to get it done as soon as I could so I didn’t think to eat first. And I hadn’t really had much dinner the night before either, to make it worse. But I went nevertheless, before having eaten. Bad idea.
As I went through the aisles of food, I began to crave anything I saw on the shelf, even things I knew that I didn’t like ordinarily, because I was so hungry. So normally where I would have looked at a product and eventually decided “Eh, we don’t really need this”, the hunger and cravings overtook my judgment and forced me to put them in my cart. By the time I was done I could tell that the cart was noticably more filled than it usually was, but I was so hungry I didn’t care and just went to the register where I found out that this weeks groceries costed me almost 40% more than they usually do! Ouch! Lesson learned: I will always eat breakfast/lunch before I go grocery shopping.
