Monday, April 7, 2008

The Golden Rule of Grocery Shopping



The rule is - you should never grocery shop when you are hungry.  I've heard it lots of times and suffered the consequences of breaking it, but I discovered something else that should preclude anyone from grocery shopping.  You should never, ever grocery shop when you are sick and hungry. 

After visiting the doctor this morning and getting my diagnosis (bronchitis, conjunctivitis, and an ear infection - take that doctor from Saturday who told me it was just a virus!) I proceeded straight to the grocery store to get my three prescriptions filled.  The grocery store, of course, has this all worked out to their benefit.  I dropped off my prescriptions and they told me it would take a half hour to fill them.  I knew that if I went home, I'd never have the energy to come back and pick them up so I decided to do a little grocery shopping.  I mean, what else was I going to do? But here is where the trouble comes in, half an hour is plenty of time to find and purchase every comfort food in the store.  

The bakery immediately called to me, and I bought croissants.  Not those icky things they sell in tubs, no I got the ones from the donut case - fresh baked and super-sized.  Croissants on steroids. 

In the produce section I bought cantaloupe even though it's not in season.  

Nothing in the freezer aisle looked all that great (too cold) until I got to the ice cream and then well, you can probably guess what happened.  

So shopping sick is a bad idea, and shopping hungry is a bad idea, but shopping sick and hungry is an exponentially bad idea.  Just thought I'd let you know.  

I'm going to eat some croissants and ice cream with my antibiotics.