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Post by kellybelly77 on Jun 13, 2016 1:08:19 GMT
Fruit!! I went to the Natural Grocer organic store today and the lady 2 people in front of me was buying this:
4 bags full of pears with about 10 or 12 pears in each bag
About 20 bunches of bananas, so probably close to 100 bananas
One bag full of carrots bunches
And 3 bags crammed full of lemons, probably 50 total
That's it! Nothing else.
I thought maybe she was canning, but the organic store is seriously expensive and all that fruit would cost an arm and a leg. Dd1 said she is making pies, dd2 thought maybe she just loves pears and dh said maybe she is on a weird diet!!
What do you all think? And really, this was just in good fun. I just found the purchase really random.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jun 13, 2016 1:14:07 GMT
She could be making baby food... perhaps the lemons are to keep the bananas from turning brown?
Or maybe baby food and lemon meringue pies!
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Post by Nink on Jun 13, 2016 1:15:08 GMT
I wonder if she is using them with a juicer.
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Post by kamper on Jun 13, 2016 1:15:54 GMT
Donating them to a food bank?
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Post by kate on Jun 13, 2016 1:16:39 GMT
My first thought was juicer, too.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jun 13, 2016 1:18:11 GMT
I wonder if she is using them with a juicer. I wondered that but dang it would be expensive! The fruit there is pricey so I bet she spent upwards of $200 on it. I think the lemons themselves are $1 each. |
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Post by mimi3566 on Jun 13, 2016 1:18:17 GMT
My first thought is juicing it. It takes a lot of fruit & veggies to make relatively little juice. It's actually the reason I gave up juicing. It took way too much fruit & veggies.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jun 13, 2016 1:32:08 GMT
Ok.... I'm going to guess that she is a gourmet caterer for a very lahtedah affair and just needed a "few" things from the grocer.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 1:40:00 GMT
I'm going to guess she is either a caterer, or prepping food for a large group and this was the stuff that needed to wait for the "last" minute to be purchased so it would still be fresh. Fresh lemons for a home made lemonade, pears/carrots for a side dish www.google.com/search?q=pears+and+carrots&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 with a banana pudding for dessert. eta: with this being graduation season lots of people are making meals for 30-80 people. |
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Post by melissa on Jun 13, 2016 1:43:41 GMT
I vote that she is a caterer or working for one
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Post by luckyexwife on Jun 13, 2016 1:44:24 GMT
::alternate pea thread:: "A PEA WWYD? So there I was, at natural grocer buying my weekly organic fruits and vegetables for juicing. This lady and her family behind me kept looking at what I had in my cart, and I'm pretty sure I even got her counting how many bags of pears I had! Would you have said something to her? I thought about telling her that if she was so interested she could sure pay for my groceries, but I was tired after a long day and picking out all of the vegetables and fruit I needed."  I'm just kidding, I would have noticed that as well. I think she is having jaw surgery, and has to have liquid meals for 2 weeks, so she was just stocking up.  |
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Post by Zee on Jun 13, 2016 1:58:32 GMT
Her whole family is juicing
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 13, 2016 2:00:51 GMT
Juicing or making food for a party.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jun 13, 2016 2:04:43 GMT
::alternate pea thread:: "A PEA WWYD? So there I was, at natural grocer buying my weekly organic fruits and vegetables for juicing. This lady and her family behind me kept looking at what I had in my cart, and I'm pretty sure I even got her counting how many bags of pears I had! Would you have said something to her? I thought about telling her that if she was so interested she could sure pay for my groceries, but I was tired after a long day and picking out all of the vegetables and fruit I needed." I'm just kidding, I would have noticed that as well. I think she is having jaw surgery, and has to have liquid meals for 2 weeks, so she was just stocking up. I was trying hard not to stare! But it was the most random stuff I just couldn't look away! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 2:04:56 GMT
My guess is getting ready for some big party or gathering, or maybe feeding snacks to kids' sports teams during an all day tournament.
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Post by bigbundt on Jun 13, 2016 2:12:43 GMT
I think a caterer or having a party. This is actually one of my favorite past times at Sam's, guessing why people are buying massive quantities of one thing. I'm sure it is mostly small business owners but it is more fun to think they are buying all that peanut oil and gatorade for a swingers party.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 2:18:16 GMT
it is more fun to think they are buying all that peanut oil and gatorade for a swingers party. ![:D]()   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 2:28:16 GMT
My vote is that she's either a caterer or (pastry) chef. I don't think she's juicing because you wouldn't juice bananas.
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Post by Zee on Jun 13, 2016 2:30:11 GMT
My vote is that she's either a caterer or (pastry) chef. I don't think she's juicing because you wouldn't juice bananas. Ok, smoothies |
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Post by angieh1996 on Jun 13, 2016 2:37:29 GMT
My first thought was making baby food and freezing it. My 2nd though was its graduation season so maybe her and another are combining parties and each is responsible for buying certain items. That is what my sister and I did with my DS and my nephew. She was in charge of making certain things I was in charge of making certain things and then together we bought the random other stuff you saw at grad parties. But I also used to make my babies food so mixing avocado and banana was a meal and pureeing carrots, broccoli and other fresh washed fruits was cheaper than a jar of baby food. Many sceneries. Lol. Maybe someone just really loved banana pudding for dessert.
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Post by Dani-Mani on Jun 13, 2016 2:39:11 GMT
I vote baby food.
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Post by Merge on Jun 13, 2016 2:45:51 GMT
Smoothie bar owner whose delivery truck ran late.
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Post by cyndijane on Jun 13, 2016 2:51:57 GMT
VBS
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Post by Peamac on Jun 13, 2016 2:52:46 GMT
Middle school math teacher, buying supplies for tomorrow's word problems. "Mary needed to make 19 loaves of banana bread. If each batch uses 3 bananas at 29 cents each, how much will she pay for her bananas?"  |
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Post by dancingwithpaper on Jun 13, 2016 2:53:40 GMT
Making daiquiris, lemon drops, and...struggling to come up with a drink that uses either pears or carrots.
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Post by stampinbetsy on Jun 13, 2016 3:45:38 GMT
I think a caterer or having a party. This is actually one of my favorite past times at Sam's, guessing why people are buying massive quantities of one thing. I'm sure it is mostly small business owners but it is more fun to think they are buying all that peanut oil and gatorade for a swingers party. I get that this time of year - I'm in charge of food for a Girl Scout twilight camp, and usually I am buying multiple boxes of vanilla wafers, cheez-its, and goldfish. I think most people think I run a daycare or something. lol I think the lady in question here was probably making something for a group. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 13, 2016 4:12:27 GMT
Reminds me once I was at IKEA and a lady had a huge cart of those tea candles.. I think there is like 36 in a pack. She must have had a couple hundred packs of them. My friend who was with me just went up and asked her.. she started laughing and said yeah it looks crazy. She take them to somewhere in Arizona to a church and donates them. I can't remember what religion.. something maybe to do with Indians or Buddhists or a temple? But yeah, she just asked... LOL
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 4:16:00 GMT
Reminds me once I was at IKEA and a lady had a huge cart of those tea candles.. I think there is like 36 in a pack. She must have had a couple hundred packs of them. My friend who was with me just went up and asked her.. she started laughing and said yeah it looks crazy. She take them to somewhere in Arizona to a church and donates them. I can't remember what religion.. something maybe to do with Indians or Buddhists or a temple? But yeah, she just asked... LOL I bought a couple of hundred candles to line our street the days after 9-11. |
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Post by Grom Pea on Jun 13, 2016 6:04:28 GMT
Lol hopefully she wasn't trying to stock up and freeze food for later like one pea said she did with cotton candy grapes! My guess was juicing. I've had people ask jokingly where the party was after I bought ice cream and hot dogs and had to reply that my family just loves ice cream and hot dogs, lol.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jun 13, 2016 6:13:11 GMT
Smoothies?
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