Beware of shopping with well behaved children!

Went do the weekly grocery ( actually it every 5 days grocery trip) with two of my precious angels. Usually I take all 4 of them after school - hey I don't want to spend my precious kid free-school hours at the groceries if I can help it. Normally they are pretty good but just the whole process of pushing the cart, eyeing what to get and where, what's on sale, the mandatory trip to the restroom and making sure I don't lose them is pretty tiring.

But this time it was just 2 boys - that they were so good! The older one pushed the cart. The younger would ask what I need and run head and get it. Did ask for too much junk food - the most junkiest was a bag of chips. What a great experience right??? WRONG!!!

The kiddies were so goood that when they asked for the strawberries - I said "Sure." ($4.99 x 2) and when they politely requested cantaloupe for breakfast - I said "Sounds good" ( $3.99)
And when one boy said the other" we have not had steaks in for ever, it is one my favorites, and the other said 'my favorite is porkchops and salmon' I thought " poor babies I will just fix them their favorites " ( $29.87, $13.54, and $26 respectively). This went on unnoticed until the checkout ...

We hit well above the $400 mark - Ack!!!! Our food bill is pretty outrageous anyway but this was CRAZY - Almost double what we would normally spend!! WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?

I then realized had the boys demanded and whined - I would have gladly cheerfully said - no, No, NO, NOOO to all their little requests- healthy or not. I know boys were not behaving well for ulterior motives but shopping with well behaved kids is dangerous!