How often do you shop for food?

It varies. I aim for weekly, but when I'm stressed out I tend to forget stuff. So then I have to keep going back to the supermarket. Lately I've been shopping almost every day.

I buy food when I am hungry. Sometimes this involves bringing some home for later. Not often, though.

about every other day, when I'm in Cambridge

Maintaining a supply of fresh fruits and vegetables requires frequent trips to the market.

I'd say anywhere from biweekly to monthly...

every week, like clockwork, always together

We do a weekly trip to pick up stuff that we use up during the week, then I do a trip to get fresh items as needed.

biweekly with some small amount of supplementing in between.

I tend to shop for food more than twice per week but not daily. On average 4 times per week. My shopping frequency is mostly based on the amount of time I spend at home. The store is only 2 min. walk away, so it has been times when I shop 2-3 times a day.

biweekly, never heard of that phrase before !?

**Wicksy: fortnightly? :) Just trying to cater to the American audience (wouldn't want to confuse anyone now would we ;) )

I think bi-weekly would be twice a week. The proper term for one every two weeks would be one of the following: bi-monthly, once a fortnight, semi-monthly, or thrice per hemi-semi-demi year.:)

**handle: I was taught that 'semi' means half, and 'bi' means two, so bi-monthly would be every two months, and bi-weekly would be every two weeks.
I was also taught that since so many people don't know the difference, 'bi' and 'semi' get used almost interchangeably, thus causing the confusion.

Lelle is correct. The Olympics, to take a well-known example, are now "biennial," meaning once every two years. "Biweekly" is similarly once every two weeks.

Interesting! I meant Biweekly as in 'every two weeks'

biweekly.. but bread and milk get replenished more often (milk is every 2-3 days)

From the American Heritage Dictionary:

Bi-week-ly adj 1.Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly.

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USAGE NOTE: Bimonthly and biweekly mean "once every two months" and "once every two weeks." For "twice a month" and "twice a week," the words semimonthly and semiweekly should be used. Since there is a great deal of confusion over the distinction, a writer is well advised to substitute expressions like every two months or twice a month where possible. However, used as nouns to denote "a publication that appears every two months," the words with bi- are unavoidable.

It seems to me, however, that semimonthly can be used in place of biweekly or fortnightly.

I have problems in the grocery store...I run up and down the aisles singing food jingles....

whenever the food the college gave us is unedible and me and my roomies are still hungry

I buy it when I need it.

I excluded "quick run to the neighborhood store for a single item" trips.

sometimes it's weeks and sometimes it's months, really all depends on whether I'm in a cooking mood. I have been known to go weeks without cooking.