grocery shopping | Big Mike's World

Well, let me just clarify: my phone is super intelligent. It’s not because I have a super cool brand or the latest of the latest or some super secret prototype made by the Chinese government. It’s because I feed it knowledge to assist me in my everyday needs. And in turn my very well-educated phone became super intelligent, like me! I can’t help it my phone is smarter than yours. I really can’t, I’m sorry. Maybe if you were a better owner and took it for walks or showed it some attention now and then it would learn something.

My phone loves me so much. Just today it taught me some very insightful things about the food I eat. Not just when I get it home but before I even buy it at the store. Let me tell you a story:

So here I am slaving away at work, all of a sudden the big voice in the building calls for all cashiers to come to the front to assist with the huge line snaking around the store. Of course I head up to help (as a good employee would). I get “stuck” up front helping for over an hour. Now I’m a fast cashier but these people kept coming and coming. I swore they were just showing up because they all heard I was ringing today.

Anyway, I had this one customer that brought his daughter with him to shop. She was being such a great help to him as his fat ass watched her unload the grocery cart. It took forever!!!!! She took at least a minute to place each item on the belt. As she placed each item on the belt she would say a letter. I was a bit confused but I was also preoccupied because I just wanted to not stand there in my most uncomfortable steel toed boots. There goes another box and she says “B-“. I was trying to think of a way to ask the dad what she was doing and not sound like I was peeved at her taking so long.

Finally after the millionth item I was done with them. The girl came over to stand next to dad. I looked down at her and asked “what was with all the alphabet stuff?” She held up a smart phone and proceeded to tell me about this app she was using…..

Ohhhhh, an app!

“OK, now we are talkin. What app were you using” I asked.

She mumbled something then just showed me her phone.

The app she was using is called Fooducate. Now, just so you know I don’t get anything from anyone if I tout this awesome app. This is just me giving an opinion. I don’t want to go on and on about what all this app can do. You can see for yourself at their site HERE.

I spent most of the night after work grading my pantry by scanning all the stuff in there. Then I attacked the refrigerator. I had some interesting finds. Some things were the total opposite that I thought. But over all I believe my fridge and pantry averaged a “B+” to an “A-“. I had a few items that dragged my grade down but who doesn’t?

So my bolgyblog friends, if you want to educate your phone as well as yourself, I suggest you check this cool app out and possibly add it to your healthy living toolbox.

Oh, almost forgot…..best part about this app…..IT’S FREE!!!!

Happy scanning my friends.

There has been its ups and downs with working in a grocery store. Hopefully you have read my first instalment of The Commissary Diaries and enjoyed the emotional ride with me. There are more great experiences to come. Like this one.

This isn’t truly a Commissary Diaries entry because it’s not about what happens there. But the adventure did start there.

It was that time again to do some grocery shopping. But I had to endure a long arduous shift behind the register before I got to partake in the goodies I saw swipe through my lane.

4PM finally hit and there was still a line beyond what I could see. Oh well, sucks to be them, I’m done. I did however offer to stay and help get the line down but we are no longer allowed to work non scheduled hours. Whatever! I offered and hopefully karma will remember.

I sign out and make a mad dash to get a hand basket to grab a few items to get me through the next days to come. First stop is the produce aisle. Oh so many delicious items waiting for me. I grab my staple, apples. I decided to try out the Honey Krisp type this time. Not much to write home on about those…. 😦 but an apple is an apple. I grabbed an overflowing bag of my new favorite cherry, the Rainier variety. WOW WOW WOW! Two thumbs up and I’ll give it two big toes up as well.

I walk around and pick at the other fresh looking fruits. I grabbed some veggies as well, carrots – onions – peppers – yams – etc. I walk off to grab some chicken, whole wheat english muffins and eggs. I had this strange feeling I forgot something. So I walked back to the produce section and there it was…….a fresh cut half watermelon. How did I miss this? It was only $1 too! At the commissary a whole one goes for $6. Who cares if it’s on its last leg. I’m gonna eat the crap out of it tonight!

I have been working a lot the past few weeks and feel like I have been neglecting my pups. I decided to spend some extra time with them by playing ball and giving extra tummy rubs. Two hours later we woke up from a nap and were all hungry. How do I know they were hungry? They are always hungry…

I needed to do a little cardio since I skipped any kind of workout today. Like I said before, I have been really tired from being on my feet a lot at work. Anyway, I jump on my bike that’s sitting on the trainer in the living room and watched the first half of the Hall of Fame Game on the NFL Network. It’s not like an outdoor ride but I can sure max out my effort and get hungry doing it.

Shower, dressed, and now searching for some food. I somehow managed to pull Duh moment and realized I put the chicken I just bought in the freezer when I got home. So what to do for dinner? Chicken-sicles? Fast food? Ugh!

I decided to pull out all of the fruit I bought and just have a healthy big snack of fruit. And why not end the day by sharing the greatness of it with my little buddies. 🙂