grocery shopping as a family outing?

Well, we needed to go grocery shopping (after Hubby and I went shopping for dress clothes to fit me a good part of the day as a date how exciting for him?) and the kids were hungry. S0 instead of waiting we loaded everyone in the car and headed to McD's first -to save time and make it so the 6 year old would want to come- and that went pretty well. Of course there was some coercing to get the kids meals eaten. Then off to Weis for some groceries. We haven't bought that many groceries at once in a LONG time. We ended up with two carts and trying to keep the kids contained in the "car" part in the front of one cart. We managed to keep track of both of them and get the groceries paid for -everything on our list plus not too many extra items- without too much fighting, although a bedtime trip to the grocery store probably isn't the best family date in the world.