So I've decided not to buy any more food until I've eaten everything in my kitchen. (Not, like, bowls. Or pots. Or cornstarch. But all the actual food.) I have a pantry full of healthy food (canned vegetables, soups, oatmeal, brown rice) that just sits there because I never actually feel like eating it.

You know how people say you'll eat anything if you're hungry enough? I'm kind of the opposite. When I'm really hungry, I want a grilled cheese and ranch fries from the Purple Onion, and nothing else will do. I always want terrible food if I'm starving. It's only when I'm not very hungry that vegetables actually seem pretty good.

Also, I'm a procrastinator. So I don't make food until I'm truly hungry, and then I crave trans-fats and high fructose corn syrup. The point of all this nutritional introspective is that I waste money by buying healthy food at the grocery store, then letting it rot in my refrigerator while I go out and buy something disastrous at my local mediterranean-american 24-hour fast food restaurant. It's not fiscally responsible, and it wreaks havoc on my health.

Sometime last week I decided to eat what I have before grocery shopping. (I'm still eating free food given by friends and Starbucks food that has accidentally been broken and is therefore free. And I'm not opposed to eating out, so long as it's infrequent and cheap.)

So far, it hasn't been difficult. Last night I made a lovely vegetable soup out of a bunch of random stuff from the fridge. But I've reached the limits of normal food (I'm out of bread and almost out of peanut butter) and I'm wondering how grumpy I'll be when I'm eating garbanzo beans for breakfast lunch and dinner.

SHOUT OUTS
Jenn ... for the avocado (haha) and stuff from your purse
Jimmy ... for the Mountain Dew