A Few Good Habits

So, I just figured out why I would rather be beaten and tortured than go to the grocery story. It's because I make it a two hour process just to do a weekly chore that most people don't think too much about. I make it a major task.... maybe this is why is why our cabinets looked so bare this morning.

As Lynn walked out the door for work this morning.... he said, "Do you think you could go to the grocery store today?" Before I sat down to make a list, I looked in the cabinet and laughed out loud. It doesn't usually get this bad before I go. I have just gotten off of my routine Sunday visit to the store this summer. Anyways... I started thinking...... I have LOTS of bad habits, don't get me wrong, but I have a few that I really don't want to change (even after the babies). When I go to the grocery store, I completely clean out my fridge and cabinets. I go as far as taking everything out and cleaning it with Clorox making sure that all of the leftovers and produce from the week before are trashed. Week old food completely grosses me out. Then, when I get home, I prep my produce and put it in clear storage containers. Example, I wash my strawberries, cut off the leaves, and slice up. It's much easier to grab and eat and it's the only way to get my husband to eat some fruit or veggies. If strawberries are left in the plastic container with the leaves- he won't touch them and they most often end up rotting. Oh and the same goes for watermelon and grapes. I guess most people do this chore, but I know that if I'm in a hurry or lazy, this extra step gets left out and I have rotten produce.


This makes me think:




I really can't remember if I got this good habit from my mother or maybe off the Food Network channel. However, I KNOW I didn't get cutting up a watermelon in small pieces and storing it from my mother.

OH NO.... This is not the way I grew up eating watermelon.

After a long hot summer day....... around the time the sun was going down.....my mother would grab the watermelon and tell me to grab the spoons and salt shaker. The melon was cut into four pieces, and we would eat the melon out on the patio- just in time to catch lighting bugs and listen to the locus sing. That's really my favorite way to eat watermelon.

XXOO,

Krys



(By the way- I still haven't mastered blogging and I'm not sure why my paragraphs aren't separating.)