Husband just admitted he was glad when the blueberries fell out of the fridge and scattered all over the floor. It sucks when you spend hard earned money on a good healthy intention--beautiful, anti-oxidant bearing fruits--and they turn out to be bitter. But so good when the lame refrigerator takes care of things before your consciousness cries waste.
Very interesting now that I think about it. My Annie's Goddess dressing always seems to take a spill too. And Husband calls it the "Stinking Egg Dressing." Wonder if that might not be an accident...
So here's the problem: every time we go to the store, we pull one of these lines: "We need to eat healthier. We're going to buy 10, 018 pounds of romaine lettuce, plenty of dressing to jazz up that roughage and enough fresh vegetables to feed Toronto (as long as they're eaten in the next 3 days before they rot)." Then we come home and order a pizza for dinner. And a week later we're cleaning out the "remains of the day."
I feel like an absolute loser for admitting this. Being extra conscious about not wasting and being a good, healthy vegetarian are forefront in my mind. It's seriously bad that we allow this to repeat itself so often. And it's not an excuse, but we're just so beat at the end of the day. Who feels like cooking? Especially when you're a complete kitchen spazz like me and you don't have the slightest interest in cooking or learning to cook.
Lettuce, you say? Oh yeah, all you have to do is wash it. I know, that makes this situation ultra lame.
2 comments:
I totally feel your pain. We used to have the same issue with our fruits & veggies.
I'm sure many budget-minded will argue this practice but it works in our house. We use the "European" method for buying our fruits and veggies. We stop at the grocery every few days to buy the fresh produce and only buy what we'll use in the next couple of days.
As a result, we're eating more fresh produce and not throwing anything out. The only exception would be bananas. I can never predict who will be in the mood to eat those.
Of course on our weekly trip we stock up on staples and anything that can be frozen. We always take advantage of BOGO's.
It's worth it to spend a little more and buy the pre-washed and pre-bagged salad fixin's because then you don't have the excuse of stopping to wash and dry the lettuce, which of course never happens.
But we should all be virtuous and cut up fruits and veggies and put them in nice, tightly sealed containers to have available for snacking, shouldn't we? I always see that on the food network and think, "Who are these people?" They sure don't live with me!
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