I suffer from financially-induced anorexia.
I may have empty cabinets at home. But I may still leave grocery stores empty-handed muttering something about “prices are too high,” etc. It’s not a lack of money, but rather my stubbornness to pay more than 10 cents an ounce for anything.
After starving myself, I finally found what I thought was a solution: Go to the store hungry.
It worked! I would find myself leaving with $20 or more worth of food. My stomach would thank me. Sometimes, like a starving raccoon, I’d even dive into a bag or Oreos on my way home.
But “Oreos” is among the key words for my new problem. When I go to the store hungry, I end up buying garbage. Cookies. Frozen pizza. Cheez-Its.
I need to learn to cook real food. But I’m always too hungry to figure it out. If it takes more than 2 steps, or if I can’t pull it out of a microwave or oven in less than 15 minutes, I’m probably not going to eat it.
If I keep eating this way, I’ll probably die sometime within the next couple of years. At least all the food preservatives will cut back on embalming expenses.
Quixotic Healer
You need to get yourself addicted to Spaghetti.
It only takes a few minutes to cook, and you can pour sauce from the jar (Classico) without heating it (It gets hot from the pasta).
Or Minute rice. It takes a MINUTE! Throw on some sort of canned meat and add cream of _____ (chicken, mushroom etc.).
Did you know you can cook a baked potato in the microwave? Wash it, poke a few holes and you're good. Add some (microwaved) frozen broccoli and cheese.
Frozen vegetables make things easier. They're not the healthiest, but I'm trying to give you some lazy-man ideas.
Natalie Marie
okay seriously- I need to teach you how to cook, I can only live off of that junkfood pretending to be a meal crap for a week before I'm craving a good homecooked meal. How have you survived so long like this? Maybe it's a guy thing…