Once you consider volume and how often you're going to utilize the service, you need to consider your overall grocery budget and how do those delivery fees or subscription fees fit into that?

Are they in addition to it? Do they take away from it? I think those are really important

considerations. Welcome to didn't I just feed you. A podcast about feeding kids.

Hey, I'm Megan. And I'm Stacy. And today we're answering a listener's question that is so good.

Both Megan and I have mentioned using grocery delivery or pickup services before

and how they've saved us time and money.

Staying out of the store obviously saves time.

Although you know what's funny about that, Megan.

What?

I feel like the more well-versed I've become

in my grocery delivery. I've also, like, I used to just like go in and be kind of surgical

about it. I need broccoli. Search broccoli, put broccoli in the car, et cetera. Now I'm, I know how to,

like, window shop.

I don't know what the right term is.

Like sometimes I'll actually go looking for like the experience you get when you impulse purchase something or you at the checkout and grab something that wasn't on your plan.

I've learned how to do that a little bit through my online grocery

shopping. Like sometimes it scratches an itch. You're still impulse shopping, fair. But way, way, way less.

So I really do feel like it does ultimately reduce impulse buys and it saves money.

It keeps you on track.

It also kind of forces me to meal plan because you can't just walk around the same way and be like, oh, yeah, chicken.

I'll make chicken.

For it to save me time, I have to know exactly like I'm logging on.

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