supermarket - a large store that sells many types of food to be cooked or prepared at home

Please go by the supermarket on your way home from work to pick up bread, milk, and eggs.

fresh - recently picked; recently made or cooked; not old, stale, or rotten

Wouldn't it be great to have our own orange tree, so that we could have fresh oranges each morning?

to resolve - to make a firm decision to change something, usually to improve one's quality of life

Each New Year's Eve, Miles resolves to stop smoking, but he always starts again within a few weeks.

to make a beeline for - to go directly to a particular person or place, without stopping to look at anything or anyone else

At the library, the kids made a beeline for the comic books.

produce - fresh fruits and vegetables; fruits and vegetables that are not cooked, canned, or prepared in any other way

My doctor said that one of the best ways to prevent cancer is to eat more fresh produce.

to ripen off the vine - to continue to mature and become ripe (ready to eat) after something is picked from the plant

Does cantaloupe ripen off the vine, or is it important to buy cantaloupe that's already ready to be eaten?

green - unripe; not yet fully mature or ready to be eaten

These plums are still green, but I think they'll be ready to eat within a few days.

picked over - with many items already selected for purchase, so that the remaining items aren't very desirable

The store had a great sale, but by the time we got there most things had already been picked over and we couldn't find anything we liked.

organic - grown naturally, without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers

If we had a garden in our backyard, we could make sure all our fruits and vegetables were organic.

wilted - with leaves that are weak and bent, not crisp, usually because they are too dry or old

These houseplants are really wilted. We need to water them more often.

to pass on - to decide not to buy, use, or have something

Alexey decided to pass on the movie and instead stay at home to study all evening.

to rot - to decay and decompose when something has been dead or separated from a plant for a long time

All the vegetables in our refrigerator are rotting. We should really clean it out more often.

checkout stand - the part of a grocery store where one pays for everything one wants to buy

This checkout stand is "express," so you can use it only if you are buying 12 or fewer items.

aisle - row; one of the long parts of a store that one can walk through, looking at the products for sale on both sides

Peanut butter and jam are in aisle eight.

to weaken - to become less strong

Julia's eyesight has gradually weakened over the years, and now she can hardly see anything.

cart - shopping cart; a large metal basket on wheels that one uses inside a store to carry all the things one wants to buy

Victor's cart was filled with ice cream, cookies, and chocolate candies. I guess he really likes sweets!

impulse buy - something that one buys without having planned to buy it, just because it looks good when one sees it in the store

Lucas bought that sweater as an impulse buy, but he's really glad he did!

all in one sitting - all at once; all at one time

Have you ever eaten an entire half-gallon of ice cream all in one sitting?

to fall off the wagon - to resume a bad habit when one has been trying to stop it, usually used when talking about drinking alcohol

Hal had stopped smoking for almost two weeks when he fell off the wagon and started again.

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