Oh, How I Loathe It!

I am blogging right now. Do you know why I am blogging right now? Because I am avoiding something I loathe entirely. I have to go grocery shopping, and I really hate grocery shopping!

I hate it because it means that I have to pull out all of my recipe books and recipe boxes and recipe binders and try to come up with a meal plan. It means that I have to pull out my planner to decide which days over the next two weeks I even have a spare hour to cook. It means that every other date on the calendar gets filled with something really yummy like spaghetti or tacos or waffles, you know, the staples. I'm so sick of spaghetti and tacos and waffles.

It means that I'm stuck on the internet trying to come up with some new cheap, healthy recipe that will taste neither cheap nor healthy. It means that I'm pulling out all of my diet books to come up with some meal high in protein and anti-oxidants and omega 3's but low in price. This, by the way, is a non-existent combination.

It means that I have to write a lengthy grocery list where I have included everything I might possibly need for the next two weeks, because the only thing I hate more than grocery shopping, is that emergency trip to the grocery store. It means that I have to change out of my sweats and put on make-up and do something to my hair. Well you know what, not today. Today I will be going to the store in my sweats and without a stitch of makeup. After all, it's only Walmart.

I hate that I have to shop at Walmart. It's dark in there, and I kind of don't trust the food I'm buying, which means that I have to make another trip to Smith's for my meat and produce. I wish that I could do all of my shopping at some high-class whole foods establishment, but I have six people to feed on a very tight budget. I can't buy everything organic, as much as I want to.

 I come home from grocery shopping, tired and grumpy, because I was stuck behind some lady with 800 coupons in the checkout line, or perhaps I'm just jealous because I didn't have the coupons and went over budget again. Now I have a counter full of groceries that contain too much high fructose corn syrup, soy, and red 40, and I really don't have the energy to put all this food away. And now I will just feel guilty if I don't use all of that produce I'm putting into the fridge. 

In fact, I'm so exhausted after such a grueling experience, that I have no strength to cook dinner at the end of the night, which means that we will probably end up at Cafe Rio. I am considering eliminating my grocery budget and just calling it a Cafe Rio budget. Perhaps I will do an experiment and live only on Cafe Rio for a whole year and see what it does to my body. Oh wait, I did that last year, and the results are mind-boggling. 

Well, hear I go. Wish me luck. Someday I will be rich enough to do all of my grocery shopping online at some whole foods cyber store. Then my groceries will show up on my front porch just like those lovely Amazon boxes, and then my friends, I won't mind grocery shopping.