What is your grocery shopping indulgence?
June 29, 2008 by Kailani
Filed under random thoughts
I saw this question over at Cafe Mom and since I just got home from grocery shopping, I thought it would be an interesting topic.
What indulgence always makes your grocery shopping list?
When I head for the market, I usually make a list of things we need and hope I can find most of it on sale. If it’s a necessity like rice, milk, bread, etc., I’ll usually get it no matter what. Other things like certain fruits, cereals, meats, and snacks can usually wait until I find a good deal.
However, the one thing I always buy no matter how much it costs is Lays Potato Chips. I don’t know what it is I love about it but I won’t buy any other brand. And it can’t be any of the flavored ones like BBQ, Sour Cream & Onion, or Salt & Vinegar. It has to be the Original Lays in the yellow package.
So, what is your grocery shopping indulgence?
BTW, this is not a paid advertisement. I just really love Lays Chips. 
Comment Spotlight from Nik @ Prose & Converse:
I can’t make it through the store without a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns ice cream! I usually only have a few bites of it (and the magical little gnomes eat the rest when I’m not paying attention- that’s the only explaination, because the rest of the family denies it). It’s so delish!
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Hmm, I guess I don’t have one!
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Oooo, I love, love, LOVE barbecue popped potato chips from Trader Joe’s! I MUST have them!
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Mine is avocados. I buy them whether or not they are on sale.
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I can’t make it through the store without a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns ice cream! I usually only have a few bites of it (and the magical little gnomes eat the rest when I’m not paying attention- that’s the only explaination, because the rest of the family denies it). It’s so delish!
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sometimes it’s artichoke-jalapena dip.
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That’s an awesome question. We, actually, have quite a few indulgences, but the biggest (expense-wise) would probably be Chapman’s Ice Cream Bars.
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Butter. We don’t use margarine, only butter.
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Mine is Potato Chips also, but UTZ, and it has to be the Utz Wavy. For some reason, it seems to taste better. Such a downfall! The only thing that stops me from buying it is if the store does not have it! If you saw how tiny our IGA is, you would know that they don’t alsways have it. Great Q!
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Ice Cream!!!
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I have a sweet tooth, in fact, it’s safe to say my whole mouth is one big sugar cave. But, the older I get, the more I can’t seem to handle chocolate, straight chocolate, that is.
I’ve been on a 3 Musketeers kick and MUST grab a six-pack of bars every time I go shopping (which is once a week). And then I have to limit myself to only eating one a day.
I know! It’s a sickness.
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coke zero
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Chips usually make it into our cart too, but ice cream is an even more regular indulgence for us. Dairy state, and all…
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If I do the shopping then it’s potato chips, I too have a favourite brand *Amica*, if my husband does the shopping then it’s ice cream.
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Kashi GoLean bars and Stonyfield yogurt. They could charge whatever they wanted for them and I would still have to have them!
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Salt & Vinegar is the best! Awwwwwwwww your missing out! =)
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Golden Kiwi from NZ! I won’t see how much per kilo, I just grab them, fast.
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i love to buy a can of soda to carry around with me while i shop!! we don’t normally buy them but something about that trip ! lol
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I love organic brand Annie’s Macaroni and Cheese. That stuff is sooo good but it’s pretty expensive.
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I don’t always buy this, but I do about every 2-3 months. My favorite grocery store indulgence is brie and a baguette. Yum!
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I don’t have just one! I usually sneak some yummy snack into the cart each week. My favorites are Guacamole corn chips and the spicy Doritoes.
However, my recent trip to the bathroom scale (I’ve been avoiding it) shows that I need to stop this nasty little habbit!
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I love to buy organic and all natural or recycled products, but can’t always afford it!
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I would say Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal. Sooooooo tasty! If it’s not on sale at the grocery store, I sometimes add a trip to Wal Mart in with my grocery shopping errands so that I can pick it up (I’s way cheaper at Wal Mart)!
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Wow, great question! I’d have to say cherries and sherbet ice cream… not necessarily together, but I love it all the same!
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Must have ice cream in the house at all times!
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Even if I’m scraping by that week, I always by good coffee. I’m one of the lucky dieters who drinks her coffee black: no doctoring required. And love every eye-opening drop of it. So I splurge on the good stuff even if we’re eating rice and beans all week… Wonder if my kids will ever get a clue, that they could have a real dinner if I’d just by Always Save coffee? Shhh!
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Mine would be Diet Mtn Dew and Sun-dried Tomato Wheat Thins
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My indulgence is cheese, but I always do my best to get it on sale. I just can’t live without having cheese in our house!
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Kailani, love those chips, too. But, let me think. I always have to buy Fuji apples, no matter the price. But that’s not so much an indulgence as a necessity, as it’s about the only apple the kids will eat, and they each have at least one a day.
But for me, a true indulgence…I’m not tied to a certain brand, but two drinks I simply can’t buy cheap are red wine and coffee beans. Must have good stuff.
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my eldest son and I always get a donut each from the bakery as a special treat for on our way home.
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I don’t know if it would be considered an “indulgence” but I MUST have my Diet Dr. Pepper no matter what the cost. I drink like 5 of these cans a day so it runs out fast. Yea, I know, its bad for me, but hey, at least they are zero calories. And I love Lays too – i think it is the SALT in them I crave. Since I am now officially back from vacation, I’m starting Weight Watchers again so I’m afraid the Lays and other indulgences are off the menu for now. UGH. I have to lose the 15 pounds I’ve put on. Sucks!!!
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Great question~ I always grab my indulgence right before I’m walking over to the register. I make a slight detour to the dried fruits aisle and get dried/ sweetened mango. Its been a favorite snack of mine since I was little and I haven’t been able to give it up
I don’t know if anyone would call it an indulgence, but the ‘unnecessary’ item I always seem to buy is jalapeño peppers. They really spice things up!
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Great Blog. I don’t have one but my husband does. I can’t come home without his expresso chip ice cream from Edy’s
My biggest indulgence when I go to Fresh Market is sushi. Oh how I love their sushi. Yummy!
Nothing too indulgent for me when we go to the regular grocery store, maybe blackberries?
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Wow, I have so many! Fresh fruit juice would be one, as well as something fresh from the bakery – muffins, etc.
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Sam’s Club Indulge Trail Mix. Chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, almonds, cashews, dried cranberries and golden raisins, and peanuts . . . how can anyone resist that?!
Hmmm.. . I am not sure. probably milk. Wierd, I know, but I love milk, and even if I don’t think we need it, I buy some. I like my ovaltine!
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i guess that would have to be honey bunches of oats cereal. i eat it daily so i usually pick up a box or two whenever i go grocery shopping.
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Oh, goodness, I have several that I get when I can, but none that I can\’t pass up if the bank account is getting tight …
Lays jalapeno kettle chips
Dreyers slow churned fudge tracks
Dove dark promises
Black Opal australian licorice
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If I could just figure out a way to get over those cravings, maybe I could loose weight
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I actually have my hubby go out and buy it because I can’t bring myself to spend the money on it… Blue Bunny Burnt Almond Fudge ice cream! If I buy ice cream, I buy the cheap stuff…
It’s gotta be Lays for our family too. I’ve bought store chips before, and they are just not the same.
Mine would have to be Pepperidge Farm Mint Milanos. For the family it’s Fudge Tracks icecream.
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Lately it’s been Icecream. Perry’s icecream!
I loved baked Lays!
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This may sound lame, but my indulgence when I grocery shop is Coca Cola. Doesn’t matter if it’s on sale or not, I’m getting it. I also like to get roast beef freshly sliced at the deli.
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We always have to have Dove chocolate in the house, my husband loves it. I tend to get on munchies for studying kicks–Mike-n-Ikes, Twizzlers, Good-n-Plenty, etc…..anything I can have close by while doing school work.
And that Sam’s Trail Mix sounds good. I’ll be checking that out ASAP!