Starving college kids

No, this post isn't about high tuition costs, or expensive textbooks. This is just me, being me, as I quite often am.

I suppose it isn't the best of ideas to put things off. And now I realize that one of the things you really don't want to put off too long is grocery shopping. I've been saying "I'll go get some food tomorrow" for nearly a week now. It's been tough.

Observation 1: Scavenging for food around the house gets harder the longer you've been at it.
We tend to consume a certain minimum each day. If you find something good, you'll go over that minimum, but as long as you're under it, you'll spend more time looking for food so that you reach that much. The only thing stopping this from getting really bad is that the hungrier you get, the more desperate you become. And the more desperate you are, the more likely you are to eat any kind of food. (the word "food" used liberally here...)

I am pretty glad I stocked up on Chex Mix in the week before finals. But it gets nasty once you've had over four ounces of the stuff. And no amount of soda will help there. You need something else.

Observation 2: Save money on food, but don't save too much. I'm almost out. There's a couple cans of baked beans, but all the dishes are dirty. There's pasta, but it's too much effort to boil water. Plus, the pasta sauce has been open and in the refridgerator for at least two months. I don't feel like waiting 40 minutes to make Rice-A-Roni (maybe I should give instant rice a try?). And I'm nowhere near dumb enough to try those hot dogs which I bought two months ago, but never opened.

I sort of had lunch today. Cheerios. But not the General Mills stuff. I buy the Shoprite brand. It's ok, but if I wasn't really hungry, I wouldn't have made a meal out of it. I definitely couldn't have it for dinner as well. But there was nothing else. Or was there?

There is that grated cheese I bought, with the intention of making Tacos. Fat chance of that not. So I grabbed it. That, and three slices of bread would make a nice medieval-style dinner. Minus the mutton, but I don't think I'd be a fan of that. And thanks to my brilliance, I came up with the idea of putting some Jack Daniels BBQ sauce on the bread. Fake BBQ pizza- yum!

The cheese has a little kick, or tang to it. I thought "was that extra strong cheddar I got?" The packaging explained everything: It was "Ched-O-Mate: Finely Shredded Imitation Cheddar Cheese." It comes in that packaging that tells the retailer what to sell it at: $1.29. Dirt cheap. Great- my frugal nature got me to buy fake cheese. I'm not making that mistake again.

Some Chex Mix is sounding kind of good now. I hope I wake up in the morning in not too much pain.