Yesterday I did my marathon shopping, which entailed two hours at the grocery stores–literally. That doesn’t include driving there and back, but it does include standing in line, so I’ll say 1 1/2 hours of walking around. Granted it’s not strenous or brisk walking, but every little bit helps.
My back is killing me!
I’m still plugging along on the revisions. I’m currently working on the seance scene and having some trouble with it, but I hope to iron it out today and then finish this chapter. I received my comments from the agent judge of the Stiletto, and I don’t want to talk about it.
On another note, I haven’t mentioned how I’m altering what the kids and I eat. Yes, our diet. I hate that words because my whole life it was used to refer to stricting food and going hungry most of the time. Or starvation techniques, counting calories and being very meticulous about something that should be natural.
Anyway, I went through my cupboards last week and threw out anything old (mostly some salad dressings we never opened and other condiments from the frig). I then went through the items we currently had to look for hydrogenated oils. Surprisingly, they weren’t in every single box of cereal, the instant potatoes or the Saltines. Some of the items will remain and continue to be purchased–like some cereals, the occasional box of Cheeze-its or Goldfish, flour tortillas (I’ll make homemade bread, but I’m not making tortilla too…well, at least not now. I don’t have a press.). Other items, like Jiff peanut butter, instant oatmeal and pancake mix will remain only until we finish them, and then everything else will never see the inside of my house again.
No more cake mixes, bouillon cubes, margarine (I only used it to butter toast and I can count on two fingers how often we had that), brownie mixes, microwave popcorn. Of course, we’re not going to stop eating cakes, cookies, popcorn, etc. It just means a lot more cooking for me. Like daily! OMG! lol Last night I’m sitting here thinking how hungry I was and there was nothing to eat (other than cereal) that didn’t need to be cooked. *sigh*
My plan is to make bread of some variety (today is sandwich rolls because I’m dying for an eggplant sandwich in the panini maker with either melted swiss or provolone) and soup, stew or chili daily or every other day. I have the bread machine and the crock pot, and those items can accompany whatever else we want to eat for the day. I’m decent about planning dinners but never lunches. This could alleviate that problem. Today, I’m making vegetable broth in the crock pot and broccoli soup on the stove. Potato soup and shrimp gumbo (yes, I’m semi-vegetarian) are on the menu this month too. 
Ok, guess I’ve talked about food enough. lol Now back to the revisions.
