What is the first thing you have to buy when getting groceries?

[Delphyne]

I am constantly buying cat food!  The Fancy Feast company must love me!  Other than that, I need coffee and tea!

We buy our cat food in bulk.  We only have two cats, but it is much less expensive buying in bulk than buying small quantities. 

 

[dnvilla]

Toilet paper 

[sharg]

I usually go to the meats and see what is on special and start their since this is the most expensive part of my grocery shopping. 
Once I pick out the meat for the week I have a good idea how much money I have left to work with for the rest of the week food.  Usually its bread, milk and then lunch supplies.
I am lucky to have a whole sale distibutor close by for vegetables and fruit so I don't worry to much about those items.

[lbryanwf]

I go right to the produce department, but only because it is the first department you come to after you walk in.

[de3ik]

I see milk quoted a lot here. It's the same for us too. We used to buy so much milk that it started going bad from non use so we cut back, but now it's like we don't have enough. It's hard to find a balance of how much we need during the month so it usually runs out pretty quickly at times.

[mstevenson2]

soda pop

[CharmedPhoenix]

I start at the back of the store and work my way to the front so that would be popcorn, nuts, eggs and cheese. 

[lynnc35]

always milk and then bread, sometimes butter or eggs

[twelton]

Since Krogers honors senior discounts on Wednesday we usually do our shopping then. I usually buy my produce first.

[dkanofsky]

Tranquilizers to reduce my anxiety in those grocery stores.

[tbosworth1]

We usually run out of bread and soda before anything else.  Generally the way I shop depends on where I am shopping.  If I am shopping at Wal-Mart then it is the HBA aisles first.  I wish they would move it closer to the grocery section.    After crossing the store I work my from back to front....and really hope I cross everything off my list so I do not have to go back.      If I am shopping at Food Lion, it would be the produce department, the aisles afollowed by meat and then to the frozen/cold items. 

[alaskakaren]

I always run out of green onions. 

[coreyw87]

Bottled water - I can't stand the city water here its like drinking bleach so I buy a flat of water just about every time I go to the grocery store.

[cutiepie9447]

usually fresh produce since that is the first thing you see when you enter the grocery store I shop at....they made sure to put milk in the back of the store that way you have to walk back through slinging all kinds of stuff along the way that you didn't even stop for

[martinezlisa]

I usually run out of milk first so most of the time it is my top priority.

i would also have to say milk just because my 3 year old is always wanting milk throughout the day i will being milk home Monday and by Wednesday Thursday i need more lol.. it goes very quick