Tales in grocery shopping:

[apocalypsos]

-- I spent sixty-five bucks today on food which will hopefully last me for the next two weeks or so. Which was actually less than I thought I'd spend, especially considering that I spontaneously decided in the Asian food aisle that I wanted to try to make my mom's yummy beef chow mein recipe to take to work with me.

-- So yeah, since I don't have the recipe, I called my mom to check and see what I had to buy and fortunately found out she had an extra London broil I could use which, YAY.

-- We also got talking about my parents going away this weekend and how my brother and I are supposed to take care of the cats and whatnot, and then I said to my mother that I was probably going to end up going up there to make him at least one meal this weekend, if only because, as I put it, "Bryan's going to spend the entire weekend alone in his room with Guitar Hero, a big bag of cheese curls, and a freezer pack of Pepsi."

Three guesses as to what I found lying at his feet when I went up to his room to say hi when I stopped up to get the London broil, and the first two guesses don't count. HEEEEEE.

As I said to him, though, it's not like I have room to talk with a giant bag of crunchy Cheetos and a two-liter of Pepsi always sitting next to my computer desk. :)

-- Did I mention I have GROCERIES? Grocery shopping is SO my favorite chore ever. I love wandering around looking at stuff and going, "Huh, I wonder what that tastes like. Ooo! What are those? *scampers off*" (Did you know that they have peanut butter with white chocolate? I didn't buy it or anything, but now I really want to try it.)

-- NEW SPN IN AN HOUR WOOHOO! \O/

(Okay, so that doesn't have anything to go with grocery shopping. STILL.)

EDIT: Okay, rewatching the episode of Top Chef where Lisa's bitching about not wanting to make a Polish sausage, I realized why her complaints and description of it bug me -- because she's not describing a REAL Polish sausage, which is awesome, she's describing the giant circular hot dog Hillshire Farms calls a Polish sausage, which is a travesty wrought unto mankind by something made of pure evil.

Comments

[florahart]

I think I spend $65 every 2-3 days for groceries.

This may be onaccounta adolescent boys under my roof, but still.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

May be? *snickers*

I wonder if it helps how often I forget to eat. Like, I'll just be sitting there writing and suddenly realize, "Um, I don't think I've eaten since yesterday." I go through a lot of Pepsi, but other than that ... *shrugs*

My work schedule helps, too. With the meals I've gotten used to bringing to work the last few months, I spend maybe seven or eight bucks for food that lasts me four days.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*nudges* Don't suppose you'd like to share that beef chow mein recipe with us? *makes hopeful Sam Winchester eyes* ; )

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

When I get it from my mom, sure. ;) I got the meat, but she had to dig up the recipe because she hadn't made it in a while.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

they have peanut butter with white chocolate?!?!

oh, wait, do you mean the reese's cups? that i knew.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

No, no, an actual jar of peanut butter that has white chocolate blended with it.

EDIT: Found it!

[faith21.livejournal.com]

OMG.

*mentally calculates whether it's worth ordering it*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Do you have a SuperWal-Mart near you? Because that's where I saw one on sale.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

No, I don't, but they list an A&P in my town as one of the places that carries it.