What Your Grocery Cart Says About You to Men

On my friend's birthday dinner, our waiter let is in on what some guys do in the grocery store. I never realized how public my grocery cart was until then. Man, they are so sneaky! (No pun intended) Some guys actually check out what's in a woman's grocery cart to get an idea on what kind of person they are. They don't even have to look hard. Here's what your shopping selections could be saying about you:

You're single

If a guy is checking you out, trying to see if you are available, they look at your cart for bulk items. You absolutely have no produce in bulk and usually in quantities of less than a handful. Yay! You cook for one!

You can't cook

Believe it or not, some men are still on the lookout for women who can cook. Back in your parent's day it was probably shameful when a woman didn't know how to cook. Nowadays, I'm afraid it's the norm. I don't get it. Do these women realize they're actually going to have to feed a family one-day? I guess they think they're going to end up with a guy who loves to cook. They are out there, my brother including, but they are still a rarity. Most men won't admit this, for fear of the bra-burning feminist variety, but a lot of men still think traditionally in terms of the man being the breadwinner and the woman being the family nurturer, AKA family cook. So what's a dead giveaway that you can't cook? Lots of Mac and cheese, ready-made frozen dinners, rice-a-roni, and boxed meals. Most likely, men will find you in the inner aisles of the grocery store, looking for prepackaged meals, and rarely in the outer aisles: the meat and produce section.

You're a health nut

You know about the raw food craze. You know what Spirulina and Agave nectar are. You are Ms. organic, ms. farmer's market. You were probably green before it became popular. When he sees your grocery cart, he won't ever find white bread. Yours is always of the stone-ground wheat, 12-grain variety. Your cart looks like a garden. Lots of green. Colors of the rainbow. You're nuts over nuts and legumes. And when he sees anything with soy, like tofu or soymilk, that's a dead giveaway.

You're a "foodie"

You're different from the health nut because your first concern isn't health, it's taste. You have a very curious, adventurous palate. Life becomes a search for new ways to excite it. If he's also a fellow foodie, he's looking at your cart for unfamiliar, exotic items that no run-of-the-mill, regular gal would know about unless she too was a foodie. He's looking for rare vegetables and exotic fruits, weird sounding foods like Kalamata olives and Bruschetta and extra virgin olive oil.

You're a junk food junkie

This is by far the biggest turn off to men who keep a lookout for what your cart holds. They may be guilty of it too, but they also know that these things tend to pack on the pounds. Youth may play to your advantage right now, but that fast metabolism isn't going to last forever. What are they looking for? Liters of soda, several items from the cookie/snack aisle, little or no produce. The colors in your cart are opposite of the health nut's cart. You don't have much green at all. But you do have a lot of red and creams. Notice how a lot of junk food has some kind of cream color? Cake, ice cream, cookies, tarts, pies, chips... all cream!

It's that time of the month

This one is laughable. All you buy is a crapload of chocolate.

And I thought guys weren't into details!