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Mar. 28th, 2005 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickGimme a G
Gimme an R
Gimme an O
Gimme a C
...
Oh fuck it. All ya'll know the drill by now.
Old grocery budget: $1666.33
Amount spent this week: $18.41
New grocery budget: $1647.92
Asparagus still pretty. Broccoli weak. Collards and bokchoi unbelieveably sorry looking. Kale looked rough but its ruffles covered up the overall wilty problem to some extent, so I bought some kale, which I had for supper. It tasted okay even though it was sort of foxed. I don't see why my grocery visits have to read like excerpts from a book called Selecting the Most Edible from a Selection of Very Sorry-looking Greens. Aren't we living in the future? I wish to file a complaint.
Yams were alarmingly cheap and pretty so I got two of those. I like yams.
I looked at the dried bean aisle again in the vain hope that either black turtle beans or interesting dals had magically appeared since the last time I visited the grocery. The dried bean aisle is not actually an aisle. It's about two feet of shelf space, three shelves high. It shares that real estate with plain rice (no flavors added), the kind apparently nobody eats anymore. No interesting legumes had magically appeared but magically, even though I expected this, it still pissed me off. Honestly, you'd think I'd acclimate.
The Weis has an entire aisle, at least twenty steps long, of assorted carbonated beverages from floor to top shelf. The Weis carries more sorts of PEPSI than it carries dried beans. They have brown lentils, split peas, black-eyed peas, navy beans, great northern beans, and occasionally dried kidneys in the dried bean aisle. That's six. The Weis carries regular Pepsi. Diet Pepsi. Decaf regular Pepsi. Decaf Diet Pepsi. Half-sugar Pepsi. Pepsi in adorable half-size cans. Pepsi in 2-liter bottles. Pepsi in "fridge pack" dispensers. Pepsi in big 20-oz bottles.
I got disgusted at that point and stomped off to look for plain yogurt. Not vanilla. Not fruit-added. Not cream-style. Regular boring plain yogurt. This should be the DEFAULT option, not something I have to search for.
Gotta say, visits to the grocery keep reminding me of A Bowl of Biskies. Fucking processed shit. Don't people eat actual food anymore? Don't people fucking cook? I can't be the only person in this country still fixing dinner from basic ingredients...
Gimme an R
Gimme an O
Gimme a C
...
Oh fuck it. All ya'll know the drill by now.
Old grocery budget: $1666.33
Amount spent this week: $18.41
New grocery budget: $1647.92
Asparagus still pretty. Broccoli weak. Collards and bokchoi unbelieveably sorry looking. Kale looked rough but its ruffles covered up the overall wilty problem to some extent, so I bought some kale, which I had for supper. It tasted okay even though it was sort of foxed. I don't see why my grocery visits have to read like excerpts from a book called Selecting the Most Edible from a Selection of Very Sorry-looking Greens. Aren't we living in the future? I wish to file a complaint.
Yams were alarmingly cheap and pretty so I got two of those. I like yams.
I looked at the dried bean aisle again in the vain hope that either black turtle beans or interesting dals had magically appeared since the last time I visited the grocery. The dried bean aisle is not actually an aisle. It's about two feet of shelf space, three shelves high. It shares that real estate with plain rice (no flavors added), the kind apparently nobody eats anymore. No interesting legumes had magically appeared but magically, even though I expected this, it still pissed me off. Honestly, you'd think I'd acclimate.
The Weis has an entire aisle, at least twenty steps long, of assorted carbonated beverages from floor to top shelf. The Weis carries more sorts of PEPSI than it carries dried beans. They have brown lentils, split peas, black-eyed peas, navy beans, great northern beans, and occasionally dried kidneys in the dried bean aisle. That's six. The Weis carries regular Pepsi. Diet Pepsi. Decaf regular Pepsi. Decaf Diet Pepsi. Half-sugar Pepsi. Pepsi in adorable half-size cans. Pepsi in 2-liter bottles. Pepsi in "fridge pack" dispensers. Pepsi in big 20-oz bottles.
I got disgusted at that point and stomped off to look for plain yogurt. Not vanilla. Not fruit-added. Not cream-style. Regular boring plain yogurt. This should be the DEFAULT option, not something I have to search for.
Gotta say, visits to the grocery keep reminding me of A Bowl of Biskies. Fucking processed shit. Don't people eat actual food anymore? Don't people fucking cook? I can't be the only person in this country still fixing dinner from basic ingredients...
