So, living a block from the grocery store

[Toastedlightly]

Figured I would post another thread about the foods libraries.

 

[episodic]

Makes it easy when you forget something.

 

[aesthetics]

I can throw a rock at Safeway from here. It's convenient, but I've never found anything particularly exciting about it...

 

[nageov3t]

I'd probably end up driving anyways to carry stuff back without the ice cream melting, milk going bad, etc. lol.

I live across from a bodego, though, and it *is* pretty nice when I need to pick up something small that's not worth going to the grocery store for (ie: milk, bread, soda, condoms, etc)

 

[arkcom]

I live a block from a grocery store, but still buy my food from Walmart, since I'm there all the time anyway.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I live a block away from a Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Microcenter. And six blocks from work. It's nice not to have to drive except on the weekends.

 

[EGGO]

Less than a block from the gym and 5 blocks from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods here. Deli's everywhere though.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: episodic
Makes it easy when you forget something.

Yes it does.

 

[lokiju]

I used to live not even half a block from a grocery store and whole shopping plaza with a Block Buster, Little Caesar's and some kickass sub shop.

Man that was nice.

To bad my roommate was such a douche and I couldn't take another year living with him.

 

[BrokenVisage]

No.. living down the block from a Wawa-type place, and then down the street from a grocery store as well is awesomer. You need the car for groceries anyway and can just take a bike to get milk and bread from the Wawa.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I'd probably end up driving anyways to carry stuff back without the ice cream melting, milk going bad, etc. lol.

Milk goes bad after a block? Where do you live where the blocks are 5 miles wide? Ice Cream might get a little soft, but nothing your home freezer can't cure. Yeesh.

 

[edro]

I am 3 blocks from the grocery store.
I have biked there and back... but it's tough to carry a case of beer/pop on your handle bars.

 

[potato28]

4 blocks from 3 grocery stores, and there's one about 1 block away.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: edro
I am 3 blocks from the grocery store.
I have biked there and back... but it's tough to carry a case of beer/pop on your handle bars.

Messenger bar on the back and a couple bungee straps

I much prefer taking more frequent, shorter trips to the grocery store. That way I can buy smaller quanities and use them before they go bad instead having to buy larger volumes to last longer but run the risk of them spoiling/over ripening before I get to them.

Plus it allows you to be much more spontaneous in your meal decisions if you can just walk across the street to get some oddball recipe item.

I miss having a grocery store half a mile away. I have a 6 mile trip now to get to one.

 

[imported_Dingster1]

I live within 3 blocks of grocery stores, movie theater, my car dealer,.2 mile from my work,5 blks to gym. I bike everywhere,with a grocery pannier and rack. Thurs-Sat, Dutch market is in town so I stock up when they come in