Where's the Real Food?

Not a great day for eating Real Food, partly due to an unexpected expense. Unexpected in the sense that we've known it was coming for 12 months, but didn't budget or save for it at all, and the fact that we couldn't just pull the money out of our asses was completely unexpected.

So we're basically eating stuff out of our pantry and freezer. Breakfast was oatmeal mixed with Weight Watchers cereal. Lunch was a ham and cheese sandwich on white bread, with some rice&potato crackers. And dinner is going to be pasta in a creamy tomato sauce with some kind of reduced-fat beef sausages that brags about the fact that it's gluten free, but in the fine print you learn that's because they use potato starch, tapioca starch and fermented rice as fillers instead of fillers with gluten. And instead of, you know, MEAT. But they were free, and we gotta eat something, right?

Free sausages, you say? Yep. Eventually I want to quit buying groceries at the supermarkets altogether, but they make it hard when they're giving me hundreds of dollars worth of free groceries. Last week when my order arrived from Woolworth's, there were a bunch of groceries I didn't order. All stuff from the refrigerated sections -- packaged sliced ham, cream, bacon, cream cheese, sausages, Swiss cheese, etc. All up, about $50 worth of stuff.

So I put it all back in the bags, stuck them in the fridge, and called their customer service number to tell them to come get the stuff and take it to whoever was waiting for it. I waited on hold for nearly ten minutes, then remembered that my neighbor Jack told me he gets stuff he didn't order all the time, and when he's called them they said to just keep it. So I checked their website and it said that if you don't get something you ordered, you can call them up to a week after the delivery date and they'll get it to you. So I hung up the phone and unpacked the groceries, putting a bunch of it in the freezer for "some day." It turns out that "some day" is this week.