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Grocery Shopping While Hungry Means Spending 10 Times More


January 6, 2011

Money, Simple Things

Grocery cart

This morning after picking up my Starbucks coffee, I felt hungry. Since Starbucks has such terrible tasting food I decided to walk across the street to a small grocery store to pick up a small yogurt.

One yogurt – that was all.

I walked into the store…and saw some nice looking organic blueberries, so I picked those up. And then I saw some Tangerines, which would sweeten up my plain yogurt wonderfully! Then some bananas caught my eye, followed by some almonds, sunflower seeds, and nectarines.

I had to put all my goodies down, go back to the entry of the store, and get a cart because I couldn’t carry all the things in my arms!

When I headed over to the dairy aisle I picked up my plain yogurt, but there were flavoured kinds on sale too – so naturally I picked up a mango flavour, berry flavour, peach flavour. I also bought some cottage cheese because it has loads of protein and is healthy too!

Almost ready to hit the checkout some muffins caught my eye, so I added them to my bursting cart.

Finally I was satisfied that I had enough food for my breakfast.

After I left the store I thought about what I intended to buy:

- one small yogurt

Vs. What I actually bought:

-bluberries
-bananas
-nectarines
-tangerines
-sunflower seeds
-almonds
-4 big containers of yogurt (literally, 2 Litres of yogurt!)
-cottage cheese
-muffins

I intended to spend $2.00

I really spent $29.67

It’s true, you really shouldn’t go to the grocery store when hungry!


       
 

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