Today's breakfast: a ham-and-cheese omelet and a couple of apple slices. Thanks to the inventors of frozen food and microwaves. Granted, this is a pricey breakfast. I could eat an egg and a whole apple for 50 cents. Choosing pre-sliced apples and a frozen omelet makes this more like a $2 breakfast.

I'm on the receiving end of a certain amount of mockery for bringing in carrot chips and apple slices for snack foods for the office, but I notice people actually are eating them.

I've been pondering the cost of food (No, I'm not poor. Just weirdly inquisitive.)

Carton of eggs: $0.99
Carton of yogurt: $0.50
Apple - $0.40
Tomato - $0.75

Okay, the tomato is pricey, but health-wise it's a good choice. As is fresh broccoli, at $1.80/lb. (A pound of broccoli is a heckuva lot of food.) Five pounds of potatoes is three bucks.

I wasn't going anywhere with that. Just thinking about it. Because I'm eating breakfast and for some reason today I'm wondering when I got too lazy to stir my own egg.