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Are you a neurotic shopper?
Yes - when nobody is looking 0 (0%)
Yes - I don't care if anyone sees 14 (77.8%)
No - the food in front is fine 4 (22.2%)
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Are you a "food store cheater"?
Topic Started: Apr 3 2006, 04:00 PM (312 Views)
kenny
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At the food store to you reach in the back to get the freshest milk, meat, eggs, etc?
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Optimistic
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Sure, I'm paying for it! I didn't think it was anything to be ashamed of :)

I'm not obsessive about it, but with things like fresh bread and grapefruit juice I try to get the one with the latest "sell by" date.

By the way- Kenny, I see you say "food store" as well! I always say this, and my friend thinks it's weird (but she's from Idaho, so what does she know?). I thought it was a pretty normal tag for a store from which you buy food. . .
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The 89th Key
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Kenny, withoutadoubt I go for the freshest milk, eggs, etc. Sometimes I get so fresh the cashier slaps me! :slap:
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Nothing neurotic about buying the product that will last the longest. A certain percentage of loss due to spoilage is built into the system, and I am not going to pay for that AND be stuck with spoiled food.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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DivaDeb
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absolutely. I always pick through and get the longest expiration I can find

And if it all expires before I would like, I sneer derisively and put it back on the shelf.

:P
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sue
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Absolutely. It's my money, and I want the freshest. Darn tootin'
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justme
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I check the dates on everything. And now both kids are trained the same way. We stopped at the store the other night and Brian was looking at the dates on potato chips bags. He made me proud.
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kenny
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justme
Apr 3 2006, 04:29 PM
I check the dates on everything. And now both kids are trained the same way. We stopped at the store the other night and Brian was looking at the dates on potato chips bags. He made me proud.

Wouldn't want to get any unhealthy potato chips. :lol:
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FrankM
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kenny
Apr 3 2006, 07:00 PM
At the food store to you reach in the back to get the freshest milk, meat, eggs, etc?

I always search for the freshest date. In the refrigerated or frozen sections, I always move packages around to get to the coldest ones below. It really takes negligible extra time to do this, so why wouldn't I?
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Fizzygirl
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I check all the dates too - especially on dairy products and meat. Nothing worse than taking a swig of old milk. :puke:
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