So, you takes your egg and you puts it in a transparent or translucent microwaveable container (1 cup size) and you stirs it up ("scrambling" is the technical term) and you nukes it for about 40-45 seconds. It puffs to incredible proportions but never flops over and makes a mess. And, if you eat it immediately, it doesn’t taste plastic so like much microwaved food.
And thus begins my last full week of employment.
Some days I'm hard up for entertainment.
Eggs are on the list of foods I will continue to eat after I'm unemployed. They're cheap. Also, yogurt. It's cheap and healthy.
Other than that, I've been watching the prices in the stores recently and it is true that to eat a healthy diet takes money. Healthy, lean chicken breasts seem to cost about 50% more per pound than fatty thighs. I already have fatty thighs (ba-da-bing!), which is why I need to eat the leaner meat, but it's too expensive.
Ditto the low-fat packages of hamburger, not that you're supposed to eat hamburger anyhow, you're supposed to buy "cuts" of meat because, having been "handled" and "processed" less, they're less likely to be unhealthy but "cuts" mostly means "steaks" and unemployed people can't go around eating steak.
I haven't spent a lot of time looking at food prices, so that's pretty much all I have to say on that subject.
The R.C. gimped into work today on her little crutches. Turns out that "no story" around how she hurt herself was that she fell down the same flight of stairs that she's seen me fall down before, and that she's always warning me about.
She's back at work today and in some pain because she can't keep her foot elevated. Poor thing.
The Mad Doctor is riding out Florida's hurricane right now. Haven't heard from him and he's not on IM, which is unusual.
I want more coffee. I've already had today's allotment of one trip to Starbucks. It's very sad to get old and realize that too much caffeine keeps you awake.
Although I wouldn't care if I weren't facing unemployment.
No, I'm not picking today as, "feel sorry for me" day. I'm just making sure I remember I'm about to be unemployed. One of my favorite ways to pass the time on a slow day is shopping on Amazon.com and it's the #1 thing I removed from my "allowed to do" list when the reality of unemployment sank in. I haven't spent a non-essential dollar in three weeks (aside from signing up for the new drawing class) and it's already starting to wear on me.
I'm going to have to spend close to $100 later this week. I'm wincing over it, but I can't go to job interviews needing a haircut and with 1-1/2 inch of gray roots showing, now can I?
I really didn't have anything interesting to say today.
Do you have a Costco card? You can get Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breasts there for about half what they cost in the grocery store. Not to mention that FF is now individually wrapping them so all you have to do is pop them in the freezer.
posted by: Dail on 10.24.05 at 07:14 PM [permalink]Hey, I've been meaning to ask what came out of your conversation with Bernie? Didn't he say he'd love to hire you?
I'm sure I could eat really cheaply on Mac n Cheese, and bologna on white bread. At least until heart disease kicked in.... I belive that's where the savings on eating healthy are realized - lower medical costs.
L-i-K-S - Yeah, Bernie was saying that he'd like to hire me...in January.
But I don't want to work for Bernie. He drives his employees nuts micromanaging them, he's always interrupting them when they're busy, and then he gets mad when they make mistakes or projects are late. He's a pain.
Also? There was a Chinese Food Mix-Up a week or so ago and I accidentally stole and ate his lunch. I'm not sure he loves me any more.
Mac-and-cheese or balogna may be cheap, but they're deadly, as you say. :) Anyhow, shopping for food isn't expensive unless you're addicted to prepared food or are accustomed to eating twice as much in a day as you actually need.
The stuff that costs a lot is the stuff I shouldn't be eating anyhow. Bags of chips and/or crackers, stuff like that. As long as I mostly shop the perimeter of the store (where the fresh food is), I do okay.
posted by: Anne on 10.25.05 at 08:32 AM [permalink]Well, I don't eat that much either, but I object to paying $4.69 for what I can get for $2.69 in bulk. I have room in the freezer for one batch of chicken breasts at a time, and it makes me happy to do it that way. Not to mention that I shop there anyway for dog food :)
posted by: Dail on 10.25.05 at 08:33 AM [permalink]