Whew, what a week! Just finished week #3 of school and with 27.5 hours, I'm sure I'm going to be crazy by week #15, so my apologies to everyone now!
I sure am missing home, Tim & our dogs. With my heavy course load there is no way I can make it back to Wichita until my 2 week break at the end of April. This makes me sad, but Tim is planning on spending a week with me sometime in March. To be honest, I have very little time to be down about it, so I know it will be March/April before I know it!
I know I've mentioned this before, but I have this wonderful Whole Foods store very close to my apartment. I LOVE LOVE LOVE grocery shopping there. The selection is wonderful and it's so EASY to read labels, mainly because most things have few, simple, recognizable ingredients! The only downside happens to be that I don't have a money tree growing in my backyard...and it's VERY VERY VERY easy to rack up a huge bill at Whole Foods!
So, this week I was on my way home from school on my short day and decided to stop at another local grocery store (comparable to Dillons for my Wichita folks!). I was inside for about 20 minutes and had a jar of natural peanut butter and organic honey in my cart. I made my way over to the bread, looking for english muffins. First of all, most of you should be thinking, "It took 20 minutes to get peanut butter and honey?" Yes, it took me that long to look at and read all of the labels, trying to find one thing that didn't have high fructose corn syrup, food coloring and/or some kind of preservative in the food. After about another 10 minutes reading labels on english muffins, I'd had it. Can someone please tell me WHY a PLAIN ENGLISH MUFFIN needs to have high fructose corn syrup and crazy, unpronounceable preservatives in it? I'm not going to eat it next year, I'm going to eat one every day this week for breakfast! I'm sure it won't go bad before then!!! Frustrated, I put the pseudo-english muffins down, put the peanut butter and honey back in their spots, and left the store. I cruised on over to my good ol' Whole Foods, where I found my good ol' english muffins. You know, the ones made out of whole wheat flour, water, yeast and a few other ingredients I totally recognize and better yet I can even spell and pronounce.
I've found that with some planning, only buying what I need for the next few days and with the help of the occasional marked down prices, I can continue to shop at my trusty Whole Foods and most importantly not have to worry about what I'm putting into my body!
And that makes me happy.
