My wife gets aggravated at me sometimes the way I will load the cart but we go to teh grocery store so infrequently that by the time we reach the check out counter I would have fashioned side extensions out of cartons and bags of produce would be hanging from the handle and any other part I could tie a bag I always carry a supply of thermal bags with us for the frozen and cold items Get to the conveyor and begin arranging items like I would want them placed in the bags One time A checker lady exclaimed OH' MY' Gawd' then called for 2 more guys to help bag. AS I unload our cart the wife is directing them how to place the bags in the waiting carts plural 3 to be exact. Men while I am also carrying on a running conversation with the young checker who simply cannot believe these 2 senior citizens are not buying groceries for a restaurant of something. or planning a huge party. I finally get it though her head that we live over 70 miles from this particular grocery store and only drive to this town once every several months. That I had noticed several items we were running low on were on sale and these happened to be items that were way more expensive at the little local grocery we frequent near where we live.
OK so I totally blew our food budget for the next 3 months but it would be 6 months to a year before we would need some of the stuff. I do things like that once in a while but the flip side is if we had a zombie Apocalypse we could feed ourselves and the zombies for a very long time.

There is never not something to make a few meals out of in our house