RE: Let's meet on Skype with a group video chat!
October 5, 2015 at 6:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 6:55 pm by MTL.)
(October 5, 2015 at 4:37 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:(October 5, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Bought chicken and other things for dinner tonight. I'm one of those weird people who goes to the grocery store every day instead of getting everything I'll need once a week.
OMG I love it. After years, I convinced my wife that this method was better. She liked how fresh the meals were and I liked how cheap the bills were.
We now plan meals a week at a time and sometimes we make them in advance and just put in slow cooker. Dinner is so much less stressful now and overall budget is healthier.
It's actually a more old-country way of doing things.
I know in France many people make a small trip, usually on foot or by bicycle or on a little vespa, every day or every other day, to the local "marché", stopping perhaps to sit with a friend at a café and enjoy an excellent little cup of strong espresso, then home to cook a fresh, healthy, flavourful (non-diet) meal, take their time about enjoying it and each other's company, and store whatever small amount is left, if any, in a small fridge or cupboard;
....as opposed to our North American method of one big weekly trip to a massive supermarket in a massive SUV to cram tonnes of processed crap into huge refrigerators and huge walk-in pantries, hitting the drive-thru at Starbucks to grab a Venti Mochaccino on the way home, and finally stuffing pizza into your face as fast as you can, whilst zoning-out in front of the TV
....and then wondering why we have an obesity problem in North America.
