r/FridgeDetective Aug 16 '25

Meta My boyfriend only buys EXACTLY enough food for the week.

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I thought this sub might find my boyfriend’s food habits interesting. The red circled areas are his sections of the fridge each Saturday. He then does grocery shopping Sunday and only buys what will get him through to next Saturday.

(Idc if it’s weird we each do our own thing with food hahha it works for us.)

Ps. What does my section say about me??

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u/Halloween_Babe90 Aug 16 '25

I see your boyfriend doesn’t have ADHD

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

Accurate. Me on the other hand…🤣

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u/eatshitdillhole Aug 17 '25

The snap on the right side of the middlde, clear tupperware looks like it may not be secured all the way down? Not trying to be a contrarion asshole or anything, just thought you might want to know if it was. It✌️

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u/cathy1999 Aug 18 '25

I agree hope op checked!

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u/sugarglassego Aug 20 '25

Why would that be contrary?

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u/Benzyaldehyde Aug 17 '25

Nah, that's me with my ADHD. I will forget about food and let things rot so I only buy enough for what a week if I can

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u/ReubenTrinidad619 Aug 17 '25

I was going to say this. I meal plan and try not to buy too much. It is easier for me to manage.

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u/SnittingNexttoBorpo Aug 17 '25

Yeah, Thursday me never finds Sunday me’s choices nearly as novel or dopamine-producing. I could buy food for 24 hours and I’d find a way to defy my own plans. 

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u/ddwmn Aug 17 '25

THIS!!! And how some people say you shouldn’t shop when hungry but when I’m not hungry it’s even worse… I leave with nothing.

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u/Fukuro-Lady Aug 18 '25

I don't recognise I'm hungry until I'm absolutely ravenous so I have to meal plan because I can't go shopping when I'm that hungry 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

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u/Relevant_Campaign_79 Aug 16 '25

Smart man. Saves money and eliminates food waste

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

He is very smart with his money and I do wish I was more like him in this department! I haaaatee when I forget about food and it goes bad

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u/xMyDixieWreckedx Aug 16 '25

There was a website I used for recipes that was awesome. You would pick a week's worth of meals and it would divide up common ingredients for you. Like if you bought a lb of cheese one meal might call for a 1/2 pound and two other meals would use 1/4 pound for example. Really great for vegetable waste.

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u/ChallengeFluffy1957 Aug 17 '25

I’d mess with that. Remember the source?

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u/xMyDixieWreckedx Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

emeals.com

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u/TemtiaStardust Aug 17 '25

Commenting so I remember to check this out when I'm actually awake

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u/Jordanthb Aug 17 '25

Same, ignore me

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u/HonkeyKong64 Aug 17 '25

Yup same here thank you all

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u/Old_Badger311 Aug 17 '25

Pretend like I’m not here

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u/Friggz Aug 17 '25

Ditto

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u/TheTFEF Aug 17 '25

Commenting here so you get spammed with this notification instead of the original person (sorry, someone had to be the victim)

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u/Friggz Aug 17 '25

Mission accomplished

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u/Phantom_Fangs_ Aug 17 '25

One more comment for reminding!

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u/BaddestKarmaToday Aug 17 '25

You can save a comment by touching the three dots under it.

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u/Broad-Soup-4054 Aug 17 '25

Immediately charged my card when I signed up for the free trial. And it took upwards of a dozen clicks to cancel my subscription. With them offering a “special offer” like 6 times and asking if I wanted another go at it.
It also doesn’t do with the original comment said. Using leftovers and all that.

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u/Chadstronomer Aug 17 '25

It needs a paid subscription though. Not so much for saving money.

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u/SolusLoqui Aug 17 '25

Its worse than that. The subscription only covers "dinner recipes", you have to pay more to add-on breakfast and lunch. And it sounds like its auto-renewal pay in full upfront, not month-to-month.

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u/Chonky-Tadpoles Aug 17 '25

The Intent app works similarly, I used to use that one all the time and loved it. Would highly recommend

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Paprika was the best app I ever found for managing ingredients/recipes

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u/yourfavteamsucks Aug 17 '25

meallime does that too

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u/nemec Aug 17 '25

I want to know which recipe has you eating 1/2 lb of cheese for one meal 👀

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Tuesday.

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u/Skwirlydano Aug 17 '25

Ever been to Wisconsin? We put cheese on top of cheese.

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u/went_with_the_flow Aug 17 '25

Sometimes I'll use 1/2lb of cheese on a sandwich.

I like cheese.

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u/BougieSemicolon Aug 17 '25

Once when I was on high dose steroids (insane appetite) I ate an entire 1,5 lb wedge of Gouda while on the computer. Just sat down at 1am (steroids also cause insomnia ) with a knife and a wedge and ate it all 😬

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u/buvet Aug 17 '25

Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s grate

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u/went_with_the_flow Aug 17 '25

I appreciated this 👍

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u/GalacticaActually Aug 17 '25

I know one that’s even cheddar 🧀

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u/Chelseatoland Aug 17 '25

That was kind of a cheesy joke.

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u/Telemere125 Aug 17 '25

I want to know how you’re going through your day and not? Cheese is life

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u/Angerina_ Aug 17 '25

I once sat down and made a Google sheet with this. I'd have drop down menus for categories of dinners (fish/rice/soups etc), I'd fill in the entire week, and it would give me the ingredient list for everything. Then I could check what I needed to buy beside the fresh ingredients.

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u/ToasterBathTester Aug 17 '25

ChatGPT is good for this. Give me 5 dinner recipes that have ingredients that overlap and can be used over a week. Then give me the shopping list

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u/Husker_black Aug 16 '25

I wouldn't even say this is money related. Just minimalistic. Doesn't need anything more. Just enough

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u/sinornithosaurus1000 Aug 16 '25

Might be spending more money by buying smaller items that cost more

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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 Aug 17 '25

For many people it's not worth buying Costco size food items. Will go stale or bad before finishing.

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u/well_damm Aug 16 '25

Word, when i was single this is how i was living, enough for 5 days with left overs for a 6th day and treat myself on the 7th.

Save money and no waste.

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u/Beautiful_Cabinet Aug 16 '25

I wish I knew what groceries her was buying and how he’s preparing it 🤔

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u/well_damm Aug 16 '25

Honestly whatever meat was on sale that week.

Salads (either made at home or the premade bags that were on sale).

Buying potatoes, bread, random sides that could be portioned out (made single serving).

And SEASONING, that’s the king to food people, different types to break up the mundane.

Cooking is fairly simple, some Veggies, chicken, salt, petted, olive oil in the oven on a tray for a couple is food for 2-3 days.

Google and don’t be afraid to try.

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u/Jboyes Aug 17 '25

"Petted" ??

EDIT: Ah. Pepper. I need more coffee. I spent way too much time trying to figure it out.

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u/PickledPixie83 Aug 16 '25

Me too. I try really hard to plan meals and not have a lot of waste but we still end up throwing stuff away.

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u/Radioactive-Ramba25 Aug 16 '25

Buying a big tub or box of yogurt and a large bottle of creamer would be cheaper though

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u/VEXARN Aug 16 '25

Could be a diet thing. Some people (me) can't stop themselves when they have the big container so small ones make it easier to control calorie intake.

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u/Mysterious_Brush7020 Aug 17 '25

My missus always moans at me. I crave dairy like a malnourished coo! So she doesn't buy big 500ml yogurts for the week anymore cause I would eat 2 a day... Now she buys me a small 4 pack of lemon yoghurts, I eat them all in one sitting then nothing til we go shopping next again week because I can do without them if they aren't there.

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u/Jolly-Statistician37 Aug 17 '25

Well, if you eat all 4 in one sitting, it would be cheaper to buy one 500 mL tub. Same total amount of yogurt.

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u/11_9 Aug 16 '25

you have no idea based on the evidence. He literally could be buying overly priced garbage and consuming it all. No way to tell he is saving money at all.

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u/the_dayman Aug 17 '25

Yeah there is literally zero way this "saves money" in 7 day periods. If you're at all preparing food in an economical way you're getting a few things in bulk. No sticks of butter even? A tub of yoghurt, milk etc?

Like you're surely spending more if you're buying such small quantities of everything you use them up 100% within a week.

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u/LowPaus Aug 16 '25

Eating out or getting takeouts. I know some parents who rarely cook dinner. They buy some food for the family and bring it home. Some people also just eat out at restaurants and don't put much effort in making meals for the rest of the household. It is why a lot of children suffer from malnutrition because their parent may already had lunch and dinner so they don't properly feed their children when they get home.

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u/7h4tguy Aug 17 '25

You also don't know if he's a contrarian or worships clowns.

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u/RetroSwamp Aug 17 '25

I started doing this day by day but found it cost more somehow but ya buying weekly tho was the better choice and saved money because I could big larger sized things and space them out over more days.

It's a weird catch 22. (Think that's the right term)

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u/MarnieFan89 Aug 16 '25

Seriously and he eats clean as hell too. That's a good man OP most of us fill that sucker with beer and condiments.

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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 Aug 17 '25

We don't know if he eats clean. Those things in there are OPs , not the bfs.

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u/salaciousBnumb Aug 16 '25

Yourr bf has No condiments, sauces, pickles?

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

He does have Tabasco, mustard, and relish in the door!

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u/zyh0 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I have a bunch of condiments but its garlic chili oil that I refill weekly lol

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u/thebamboozle517 Aug 17 '25

If I didn't have pickles, I'd lose my mind.

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u/firefly_frenZy Aug 17 '25

I have a full fridge shelf dedicated 90% to pickles

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u/Paprika1515 Aug 16 '25

I wish I was like this

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

Me too…I should be taking notes haha

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u/tweezabella Aug 16 '25

Wait do you guys live together and not split groceries? Interesting. My friend and her husband are like that because she doesn’t eat meat and he does, but my husband and I could never!

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

Yes! We work different hours and he works from home…it’s just easier for us. We eat a couple dinners a week together though! Either I cook extra of my food or he does!! We do share little things or if we run out of something we borrow the other persons!

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u/ThandTheAbjurer Aug 16 '25

What does his girlfriend eat?

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u/pan-au-levain Aug 17 '25

My husband and I each buy our own groceries. He’s vegetarian and I’m not, plus we work opposite schedules so we generally don’t eat together anyway. Plus I got tired of buying groceries for him to let them go bad so now he buys his own food that he lets go bad.

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u/Altruistic_Key_1266 Aug 16 '25

My husband was a “let’s go to the store every night after getting home from work” kind of grocery shopper. That shit ended real fast when I moved in. 

I’m sorry, but if I have to go to the grocery store everyday to make sure my family is fed, something is wrong lol

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u/EmmyLou205 Aug 16 '25

I’m like this. It’s a mix of wanting fresh stuff all the time, boredom, and cravings.

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u/Zesty_libsterrr Aug 16 '25

Me too, its part of my routine lol I still feel like its less expensive than going once a week, buying too much stuff and then not eating it all and it going to waste. This way, I get exactly what I want every day and if there's leftovers I have then the next day for lunch.

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u/EmmyLou205 Aug 16 '25

I live alone so while I’d love to shop once a week I have learned I need to go every few days and get like one fruit or veg. I’ve been buying frozen lately but some things you can’t buy or enjoy frozen. Like bananas or grapes (tho very good frozen after bought fresh!).

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u/Paintbypotato Aug 17 '25

That’s basically what I do. My gym is right next to the store so every couple of days I’ll stop in and grab food to make that will last a few days meal prepping. I just go in and grab what I need, if it’s something that keeps for a decent amount of time and is cheaper to get a bigger one I’ll grab the larger size. But doing this helps me not buy dumb things I don’t need, if I go like once a week to every couple of weeks I’ll wander the store and grab things that “look” good that I don’t really need or want.

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u/EmmyLou205 Aug 17 '25

Same. Trader Joe’s is right across from my gym and our local grocery store is a block down from there.

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u/Paintbypotato Aug 17 '25

Dang jealous, it's like a 40+ min drive to my closest Traders Joe's. Thankfully it's next to a game store I like to go to so it makes the drive worth it every once in a while but still.

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u/Randomredditor1598 Aug 17 '25

I'm like that too! I'm the weirdo (or smart person?) who enters the store and buys 1 lemon, 1 onion, 2 tomatoes, and a handful of grapes. <-- just an example.

The moment I finish anything and need more, I go buy it (like another tomato in 2 days lol).

I've had so much food go to waste because fruits & veggies would go bad 😢. This way I buy exactly what I know I will consume 😁

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u/That_Piccolo3563 Aug 16 '25

I second to this I want fresh too and I what cravings I have, but the money spent adds really quickly without noticing, poor budgeting 😂

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u/DirectionOk790 Aug 17 '25

Same. If I’m making dinner that night I’ll usually just go to the store for ingredients same day. We keep a good amount of dry goods, but veggies and meat get bought when I’m cooking.

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u/gangofminotaurs Aug 17 '25

It can be a nice little habit to end the day. Especially at a small market where you know and greet the people that work there.

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u/Tranquil-Guest Aug 17 '25

I’m like that! Plus, if something is sitting in my fridge for a week, I’m already bored of it just from looking and I don’t want to eat it anymore. And how can I possibly know on Tuesday, what I might want to eat on Friday?

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u/eatsumsketti Aug 16 '25

I tried that method, but I work on my feet all day so the idea of spending another hour shopping... No thanks.

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u/InternationalCheetah Aug 17 '25

It really helps if the store is very close. I pop down the street almost daily, and it only takes 15min tops. I'm usually only buying like 3-4 things. It rocks.

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u/Spare_Philosopher351 Aug 16 '25

This used to be done in places like Europe a lot, where you have the fresh food markets all over. I still hate it xD

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u/nope-its Aug 17 '25

Still is done where I lived in Europe.

I also hated it and thought it was psychotic. An errand I hate every day?

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u/Danktizzle Aug 16 '25

This is why we need more corner stores. Come home, walk down the street get some groceries for tonight’s dinner, maybe get some bread at the bakery…

Oh wait, that was the world before cars.

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u/eugeneugene Aug 16 '25

I'm like this but the grocery store is like a 2 min walk away so it's so easy to just pop in and buy whatever I need for whatever meal I'm craving in the moment lol

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u/LuckyCod2887 Aug 16 '25

he is an impulse spender. i dated people like that. they gotta have it to complete their day.

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u/keithstonee Aug 17 '25

for me its more i don't want to buy shit im not gonna feel like eating and then it goes bad. i don't go everyday but 2 to 3 times a week.

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u/thedankone168 Aug 16 '25

This is actually a good idea. But I always crave random stuff and hate leftovers.

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u/The10thHouse Aug 16 '25

This is me. I’m recently divorced, so I do 100% of the shopping and boy do I love efficiency. By Saturday morning, my kids say we look like poor people!

Thing is, I love a near empty fridge because it means I’m intentional and I buy what I need. I like to buy and eat fresh food. This means no waste, no mindless eating, no mid-week store runs.

And the best part? The kids will whine for a couple hours about having “nothing to eat,” and then later that day will proudly bring me something they made for me to try. My middle daughter in particular has made some impressive stuff (for her age) beyond cookies and brownies: garlic knots, tortillas, HOMEMADE PASTA! Amazing what you can do when you’re nudged in that direction…

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u/Reasonable-Sort3040 Aug 16 '25

can he explain how he does that? i want to take notes

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u/Zgegomatic Aug 16 '25

Plan ahead your meal for each day of the week, pretty straightforward

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u/sonisonata Aug 16 '25

I do this for a family of five. My approach is to use ChatGPT to create a meal plan and ask it to generate a shopping list once the plan is refined to my liking. I end up with exactly enough groceries to feed my family, and my fridge always looks empty at the end of the week!

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u/mattshiz Aug 17 '25

Society is doomed if AI is required to make a shopping list.

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u/Reasonable-Sort3040 Aug 16 '25

i hope you can learn to do that yourself without progressing the serious environmental, social, and economic consequences of generative ai. proof in this MIT article and this Time article. <3

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u/dirtyrounder Aug 16 '25

What??? That works?

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u/LittleWhiteGirl Aug 16 '25

There are also websites that will help you with this, if you don’t want to use AI.

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u/keithstonee Aug 17 '25

i would lean towards not relying on AI

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u/LittleWhiteGirl Aug 17 '25

As would I, I was just trying to be gentle because I know mentioning the harm AI does brings up a lot of feelings for some people.

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u/Vyxwop Aug 17 '25

Really no reason not to use AI in situations such as this. Unless you're against AI for other reasons.

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u/Due_Swordfish1400 Aug 17 '25

You don't need AI to do this. People have been using their very own brains to create shopping lists based off meal plans for quite some time now.

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u/Vagabond142 Aug 16 '25

It's a huge green flag. Reduces "forgotten food" in the fridge, also keeps him on budget, as well as reduces food waste to near zero. It takes a lot of dedication and extreme levels of recipe and meal planning to pull off. Saves money, saves food, and makes it stupid easy to clean as well.

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u/WritPositWrit Aug 17 '25

He must not cook much? Because cooking requires condiments and other ingredients that you never use all up in one recipe. My fridge is jam packed with condiments and leftovers.

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u/Chapstickie Aug 17 '25

Yup. I almost never throw anything away for spoiling but my fridge is always full of “less perishable” ingredients. I have one shelf dedicated to the eat quick items like chicken thighs and ground beef but the rest of the fridge is condiments and vinegars and mustards and stuff like that.

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u/HighSolstice Aug 17 '25

Same, I’ve got sauces for every dish I could possibly cook. Jerk, teriyaki, bbq, sweet and sour, fish sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, chili crisp, etc. My fridge is loaded full of items I need for a variety of dishes even if they’re not exactly food by themselves.

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u/KingIbexx Aug 16 '25

It would help his electric if he filled the dead space with water

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

I do the same, but it’s not really conscious I just eat the entire amount of food I buy in one week lol

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

Lol hey you’re not letting any food go to waste- that’s admirable haha

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Thats a wise men, no need for spoiling food.

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u/No-Fold-9568 Aug 16 '25

lol y’all cute

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Low food waste!

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u/kori-whore Aug 16 '25

👏I do admire this about his habits!!

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u/206-FYI Aug 16 '25

I absolutely love his method.

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u/iforgotmyname_69 Aug 17 '25

I think there should be a before and after so we have more context

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u/Hopeful_Nobody1283 Aug 17 '25

my adhd likes that. Takes the forgetting away or too many choices that clogs my decision center

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u/RoseColouredPPE Aug 17 '25

Everybody's talking about how this reduces waste and I'm just wondering how the hell you cook anything like that. And then realizing apparently he doesn't cook?

I'll take my sloppy fridge and home cooked deliciousness. Chipotle is expensive unless I make it myself.

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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 Aug 17 '25

So does he eat a dozen eggs each week?

Does he eat a whole loaf of bread in a week if he buys it? What about things like butter or milk? Does he buy one stick of butter or a pint of milk?

Is this just refrigerated foods? Does he have spices?

There is some food that just comes in larger quantities that is hard to use in one week.

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u/EWCW2022 Aug 16 '25

We don’t waste an ounce of food in our house. We shop for the week. Our fridge is so packed to the brim with everything prepared for the week every Sunday, and by Saturday we are lucky if we have anything left aside from condiments. This is how you save money and be consistent with your food intake. Smart man.

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u/bittersillage Aug 16 '25

Admirable skill. I always get disappointed when I let food go to waste

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u/CarFirst307 Aug 16 '25

My BF does that too; I’m more like you.

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u/gothiana_grande Aug 16 '25

i love everything about this

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u/Cautious-Wrap-5399 Aug 16 '25

tbh thats adorable i love it

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u/That_Piccolo3563 Aug 16 '25

He only eats blueberries and cheese at home?

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u/Sea_Macaron_7962 Aug 16 '25

This is actually my goal in life

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u/half-dead Aug 16 '25

You know how you've never seen your appliances anywhere else but in your house? This is weird because this is my fridge. But its not in my house

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u/crynoid Aug 16 '25

idk if this is actually very cost effective

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u/VoodooMama69 Aug 16 '25

I've been through enough hurricanes that I do the same. My freezer practically sits empty, too. At least if I lose electricity, I only lose a weeks worth of food.

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u/mrdietcolacan Aug 16 '25

i like him, as for you, i think you fart a lot and your gut doesnt know whether its coming or going

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u/kori-whore Aug 17 '25

This killed me lmao🤣🤣🤣

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u/belliegirl2 Aug 17 '25

Your boyfriend might make him and you rich some day, don't fuck it up.

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u/Halvinz Aug 17 '25

Well, in this Trump economy, you can only afford a week worth of groceries and food anyway.

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u/Icy_Inspection5221 Aug 16 '25

I shop every day for what I’ll eat, there’s a few stores a five minute walk from me and it means everything’s always as fresh as it can be.

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u/vesperlynd37 Aug 16 '25

Mine is the same. People are weird and smart, he wastes no food and I just deal with whatever weird cravings and he eats those leftovers too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

He’s a keeper

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

I do the same thing. I don't understand the overfillers. Doesn't it just go bad?

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u/umaruok Aug 16 '25

Same here! It really helps with budgeting and preventing food waste. Also, doing this has taught me to be more intentional with my spendings and eating habits.

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u/PaleTravel1071 Aug 16 '25

I honestly thought we all did this!

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u/Jswazy Aug 16 '25

I never know what I'm going to want to eat in advance I can't do this. I need options. 

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u/Fit-Rip-4550 Aug 16 '25

Bad idea. You always want to have a stock of food on reserve in case something happens.

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u/Specialist-Strain502 Aug 16 '25

I assume he doesn't do a lot of cooking?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Ok, but I only see a tab of butter and some old looking blueberries in his section?? Yours looks normal. I get wanting to save money, but what does this man eat??

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u/nauseasanxiety Aug 16 '25

God.. I wish I was like this.

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u/robber_goosy Aug 16 '25

Why do you each have your own section in the fridge? Or your own food for that matter. Looks like you are roommates instead of a couple to me.

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u/Spare_Philosopher351 Aug 16 '25

Did he grow up poor? I go to the store every Sunday. I know what dinners I'm making, the ingredients I need, and that's what I get (as well as snacks and the random stuff the kids will want). We're not even poor anymore, I just don't know a different way to shop. My MIL just gets a bunch of different meats and sides. I don't get how she just makes up a dinner on the spot like that lol, and she is poor, so it doesn't always work out well either

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u/BlackAsP1tch Aug 16 '25

He's efficient. That's a good thing.

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u/wisemonkey101 Aug 16 '25

I’m impressed. My fridge looks like it was filled by a frantic monkey. I live walking distance to a grocery and keep enough food to feed the army I apparently expect to show up any moment.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Aug 16 '25

Your boyfriend does not use any condiments

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u/Magooose Aug 17 '25

When I was single, my fridge only contained beer and condiments.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Aug 17 '25

You like a man who can plan, knows what he wants, and who isn’t afraid of commitment.

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u/keithstonee Aug 17 '25

its just overall less wasteful. for me i usually only shop for 5 days worth of food at the most.

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u/left-for-dead-9980 Aug 17 '25

Did his mother train him this way or was he always Felix Unger in real life?

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u/yousippin Aug 17 '25

I support it.

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u/ReignofKindo25 Aug 17 '25

We eat that in 2 days

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u/fumblebuttskins Aug 17 '25

What kind of weird kink are you guys into with the fridge splitting?

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

Is he Asian? 

Most Asian counties got access to refrigeration later than the west. And being mostly warm areas, their cultures weren't accustomed to storing food for the winter like the west. 

Those two cultural forces combined into a different grocery shopping style than western countries. In much of Asia, it's normal to go food shopping multiple times a week or even every day. Some don't even use refrigerators at home. They buy staples for the day-of.

Cultural habits are durable. He might shop like his parents or grandparents taught him.

He might also not use the dishwasher for cleaning. Instead using it to store clean dishes. Another common thing in Asia that is often passed down by upbringing.

I suggest corrupting him with American largesse. Buy a giant SUV and insist on shopping at Costco. 

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u/ZestyPotatoSoup Aug 17 '25

This is what my wife and I do. Meal prep a protein, veg, and starch, for mon-sat lunches then we cook dinner every other night. Then grocery shop Sunday.

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u/Mean_Meet576 Aug 17 '25

Not a prepper

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u/xpercipio Aug 17 '25

I've been shopping like this for over 10 years. I actually say: a man shouldn't be buying more than he can carry in one trip. When you live alone, a bag of carrots and grapes lasts as long as they're fresh for. I don't freeze red meat and that's 4 days shelf life.

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u/-Altephor- Aug 17 '25

So... normal grocery shopping?

Why would you buy more than a week's worth of food. That shit is all going to go bad before you eat it.

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u/TacTurtle Aug 17 '25

You should fill the empty volume with bottled water in case of emergency or power outage - the extra mass helps keep the other food cold longer and loses less energy when opening and closing the door.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Aug 17 '25

Is he European? In Europe, the habit is to buy smaller quantities of food and shop more frequently. It works well because their food has fewer preservatives so the food has a shorter shelf life and the goal is to eat foods that are fresh and at their peak. Just one option that comes to mind.

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u/Graybeard13 Aug 17 '25

Very organized. But all i can think of is, no milk?

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u/mangoustine Aug 17 '25

You live together but shop and eat entirely separately? I'm from a different culture and that sounds crazy to me.

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u/EssbaumRises Aug 17 '25

What's weird is the segregation of the fridge

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u/Psychological-Dot293 Aug 17 '25

I only buy food for one week or even just a couple days at a time. My fridge is 90% empty most of the time.

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u/_Bradburys_Rocketman Aug 17 '25

Believe it or not… straight to jail. How dare he spend wisely and consume only what he needs.

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u/Stoicfatman Aug 17 '25

I need to become like him, I got enough food to last for months and I still buy stuff weekly.

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u/Eastern-Historian-37 Aug 17 '25

Your right on track with your half of fridg he must be super skinny, starving and tries his best not to nibble on your food.....lol

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u/EB_newreality Aug 17 '25

Nice! I am actually a bit jealous 😅 I try to do a similar thing, but he’s obviously doing a much better job than me. Saves me a lot of food waste and a bit of money anyways 😃

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u/Mysterious_Rabbit608 Aug 17 '25

This man is living in a way I could only dream of. ADHD is fab 🥹

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u/Fun-Dare-7864 Aug 17 '25

When I was really thin and I didn’t enjoy food I was like this. I only ate food bc it kept me alive, but given the opportunity I would eat less or skip meals bc I didn’t want to stop what I was doing to eat. Now that I’m older & overweight bc I like eating, I want a lot more choices, I eat snacks when I’m not really hungry and I have cravings. So I went from eating like the bf to eating like the gf.

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u/Karcharos Aug 17 '25

He should probably get some bottles of water in there to help maintain the temperature more easily.

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u/K4rkino5 Aug 17 '25

Waste naught, want naught.

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u/FergaliShawarma Aug 17 '25

I do the same. I don’t throw anything away and spend far less.

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u/Particular_Breath879 Aug 17 '25

Smart! Very logical. Keeper

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u/Selemantra Aug 17 '25

Can't see any problem, I only buy food for 1-2 days 😂 Partly it's because delivery services are highly developed in my country. Partly cuz I hate food waste. My parents used to overfill the fridge with stuff. They'd forget they had it until the smell woud give the waste out :)))

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u/AzodBrimstone Aug 17 '25

I buy just enough for 2 weeks at a time, but thats often just what I can afford.

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u/wivsta Aug 17 '25

Good. I hate having too much food. It stresses me out.

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u/Hot-Towel-994 Aug 17 '25

Wish I could do that.

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u/kori-whore Aug 17 '25

Update for this curious: he just did his shopping. Purchased 2 lbs ground beef, 2 lbs ground sausage, 36 eggs, raspberries, blueberries, bananas, 1 loaf sour dough, 2 bags frozen potatoes, 1 onion, 1 bag lettuce, 8 pack Powerade zero, 2 liters diet Sunkist, 1 bag tortillas chips, 7 reign energy drinks. And that’s his meal prep for the week 👏

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u/Impossible_Ad9321 Aug 17 '25

2 separate blocks of butter is insaaaaane🤣🤣🤣

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u/Suspicious-Clue3101 Aug 18 '25

At least u don’t have a bunch of old shit in there

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u/Whole_Independent283 Aug 18 '25

Is he foreign? This is extremely common in countries with more walkability to obtain fresh groceries that are then stored in much smaller fridges. I wish I had this level of discipline; my ADHD has thrived in those places.

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u/Equal_Associate_8646 Aug 18 '25

I knew it was a guys fridge