Let's say you are bored on a Sunday morning. You'd like to go to breakfast at Bob's Diner in Manhattan, but if you do that, you also have to take your mother grocery shopping. Grocery shopping, on this occasion, is a major ordeal, i.e. groceries for 2 months. The question you find yourself asking is this: Is breakfast at Bob's Diner, wonderful as it is, enough motivation to grocery shop with your mother?
The answer today is Yes! Yes, it is!
After breakfast, Luke and I attacked Dillons with a shopping list for 2 months worth of groceries, a notebook with 2 months of meal plans and recipes and a handful of coupons.
We were set! Oh, and Luke remembered all the shopping bags.
We were a well oiled machine, I am here to tell you.
Barely an hour into our shopping adventure, we had filled 2 baskets, barely strayed from our list, found everything but frozen meatballs and were ready to check out. As we approached the check out lane, we each guessed what the total would be; in spite of all my practice, Luke won (I was $200 over!). Coupons saved us 9% of the final bill which was around $45.00. You want to know something cool about the trunk of my new car? It can hold 2 months worth of groceries AND still have room for a body or two. If you are in the business of hauling clean shit (as opposed to dirty shit and you totally know what I mean), my car is the car to have.
The best part for me was having Luke carry all the groceries in (that's why I gave birth to him 30 years ago, after all). I don't mind putting things away, but I hate to lug the shopping bags around.
To make you scream out loud: I weighed the hamburger out according to what I need for various recipes, vacuumed packed it and labeled it with weight and name of meal. I did this will all the meat. When we got home I popped "Bridesmaids" into the DVD player. I was wiping down the counter when the final credits rolled.
Nap time followed.
CB cooked supper.
I love a day that is filled with accomplishments.
I love a day that does not include the question "what are we having for supper?"
