2024 Grocery Store Wrapped
I was gagged...
2024 was my first full year living in Topeka. Since I moved here, I’ve frequented the same grocery store for all of my food needs. I was so surprised this week when I got some weird looking mail from them, different than my usual monthly coupons. Lo and behold, their rewards app accumulated a list of my top 12 purchased items of the year and gave me the best personalized coupons ever. I got a grocery store wrapped. So without further ado, here are my top 12 items and what I use them for:
12. Eat Your Mouth Off Cereal
I’m not gonna lie, this stuff doesn’t taste very good. I did buy several boxes of it, though. I’m kind of going through a breakfast crisis as a non-breakfast eater who is trying to eat a filling breakfast these days.
11. Store Brand Fingerling Potatoes
Not to be a psychopath, but I literally eat these raw and unseasoned or baked and unseasoned. Nothing fancy. Can’t go wrong with a potato.
10. Store Brand Liquid Egg Whites
More from my breakfast crisis. Eggs are the most versatile breakfast food, but for some reason I don’t like cracking eggs and dealing with shells… so liquid egg whites it is. I made so many amazing unseasoned omelets and unseasoned breakfast burritos in 2024. I wish more people respected the no seasoning grind, but alas. My boyfriend makes fun of me for it :( .
9. Frozen Steamable Vegetable Bags
Everyone should be put on to frozen vegetables by now, it’s almost 2025. I find it so much more convenient to throw the whole bag into the microwave for a few minutes than to deal with fresh produce. Call me lazy, but just know I’m out here eating my greens more than the average person.
8. Stok Cold Brew
This is actually so cursed for me to see. I have my own espresso machine I should not be drinking store-bought cold brew at this rate! But, if you’re looking for some cold brew, I have to recommend the purple variety of this one with a little bit of vanilla Torani syrup. It hits the spot every time. Just beware that it is pretty concentrated and meant to be watered down.
7. PF Chang’s Home Menu
The natural partner to my steam bag veggies. Heat up the PF Chang’s chicken, heat up the veggies, throw it on some minute rice and you have stir fry. You can mix and match the chicken flavors and veggie mixes to keep it interesting. I have this probably twice a week. I think it gave my boyfriend Stockholm syndrome.
6. Store Brand Pepperoni
I honestly don’t know how this landed so high. Like yeah, I’ll snack on pepperoni every now and then, and I make a pepperoni pasta sometimes, but to be ranked higher than my stir fry ingredients? Just unexpected is all.
5. Dannon Greek Yogurt
So many flavors. Grab and go. The base of a parfait. Throw it into a smoothie. The options are endless when it comes to Dannon greek yogurt. Dannon greek yogurt, they could never make me hate you.
4. Frozen Fruit, Any Variety
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. I just get a random variety of frozen fruit each Sunday and portion it out into 7 mason jars to be kept in my fridge. Then I eat one jar every day in a smoothie, parfait, or just alone. If there’s a good fresh fruit sale, I’ll grab some of that too, but typically I’m a frozen girlie.
3. Breyer’s Carb Smart Ice Cream
I know this looks suspicious lol. What kind of diet food abomination is this?? I’ll keep it 100% with you, I do specifically get this because it is a diet/low cal food. HOWEVER, the benefit is that I get to eat ice cream every single day of the year. The texture and taste are kind of uncanny valley to actual ice cream, but it definitely scratches the itch for a sweet treat at the end of the day. Every day.
2. Cheez-It Puff’d
These are like crack to me. I get the cheese pizza flavor every time. No further comments.
1. Lean Cuisine Single Serve Pizza
I know what you’re thinking: diet food BS again? This is going to be a bold take, but it’s almost 2025. Frozen low cal meals are fine to eat because they are NOT the same as they were in the 90s. Science has advanced so far that the general public knows that carbs are fine and protein is a slay, and they figured out how to make frozen meals taste good. People who won’t accept that freezer meals are completely different than they used to be are exactly the same as people who still use a flip phone because it “does all the same things as a smart phone.” I promise you there is no greater joy than hitting your vape and eating an air fried lean cuisine pepperoni pizza. It does exactly what it needs to do, no notes, no room for improvement.
Did you get a grocery store wrapped?
Thanks for reading about my grocery store wrapped. I hope my commentary and recommendations have inspired you to try some new foods in 2025. Did you get a grocery store wrapped? What food topped your list this year?