I’m a complete oddball, because my favorite thing to shop for is… food! I actually love to grocery shop, love to go to Sam’s and stock up on food and household supplies, and when we travel, I love to go to new grocery stores. Yes, I’m weird, and I know it 😀
When we went to the beach before Labor Day, I got to get in two food stops. We went to a Publix to shop for food for the beach house for everyone while we were there. This particular Publix had a nice organic section in the produce and several healthy options on the shelves. I didn’t buy anything here, but I easily could have 🙂 In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Publix chain store, or if I have, it’s been a couple of decades.
My other stop is one of my all-time favorites – Harry & David. Whenever we travel and go near an outlet mall that has a Harry & David, I always want to stop. Years ago, I would browse a lot and not buy much. These days, I have finally realized that I don’t get to go very often, so I better buy while I’m there and it’s available 😀 We normally only go near a Harry & David every 2 or 3 or sometimes 4 years, so it’s a nice treat for me to go in and find something new to buy, or pick up an old favorite. One of our all time favorites there is their tomato and pepper relish, which I use to make a dip for football season. This year, I made a pointed effort to get mostly new things, and so I am trying all new stuff this time!
Here’s the link to the last post I made about this, two years ago: click here
And here’s a photo of the stuff I bought this trip, I actually did pretty good and didn’t go overboard! 🙂
P.S. In case you’re interested and can’t see from the photo, I bought: Multigrain Tortilla chips, Sesame Garlic tortilla chips, Moose Munch decaf coffee, Raspberry scone mix, 2 kinds of salsa (habanero and black bean & corn), one jar of queso, one jar of cherry preserves and one jar of cherry butter. I like apple butter, so I hope I like the cherry kind 🙂
Yummm…never been to a Harry and David store. Will have to see if there is one around here. Glad to see you’re posting more. I updated my blog too. Have a great week!
Mmm, mmm good!! I love their onion and pepper relish!! Publix are all over FL so I’ve been a few times. I think I like our Shaw’s or Hannaford better though. Maybe I was in vacation mode and not thinking about regular food shopping while there.
Do they make chocolate too? I think I’ve had it.
Also, I LOVE to grocery shop!!!
you are not weird at all! i wish i loved going to the grocery store. a few freaky things happened to me a few years ago that made me not love them anymore. i stick to aldi’s and go when i think the crowd will be light and i get out as fast as possible. i should go to one of the new big ones sometime, when i have no list or agenda, though, because i do think i enjoy just taking in all the yummy possibilities!
your selections look great! i’ll be interested to know how you like the cherry butter. 😉
Cool! Never heard of it!
I also WISH I loved grocery shopping, but I honestly think it’s a time thing. I hate that it takes up some of my precious weekend time. If I didn’t work, I think I would like to really get into cooking & shopping (and MAYBE it would help me get into food, lol!)
Everyone has a “strange” fixation, so don’t think you’re weird. Myself? I like to read dictionaries. Um, yeah……. 😉
On the way to or from the beach I should have stopped at Donna’s #6 to get some more cherry butter! I missed that you got cherry butter at H & D……..think I was trying to decide on the egg muffin microwave pan and didn’t get end up getting it but probably should have!
I like H&D, too. The one in our mall closed, but there’s one about an hour from us that is a factory outlet store. It’s a great place to go Christmas shopping.
My absolute favorite time to go to Harry and David is after Christmas. They have soooooo many things marked down and anything seasonal is marked down like 75-90%. It is AWESOME!
I’ve never been to Harry and David’s. I haven’t even heard of it, but your stash looks good!
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