QotD: Not Allowed In The Cart
What item(s) do you have to prevent yourself from buying at the grocery store?
Submitted by Places Unknown.
I'm pretty composed when I shop for food. I used to be a real junk food fiend, but now I've turned into my mom, who was one of those crazy health-food freaks in the Seventies. I strive to avoid things in jars, bags, or cans, unless they're fancy nut oils or exotic kinds of rice.
My husband, though, seems convinced there's an imminent shortage of pasta sauce and tortilla chips. Every time we visit a grocery store a few more jars of pasta sauce and a couple of gigantic bags of tortilla chips appear in the cart. These will join the other jars and bags in our tiny pantry, in preparation for, I guess, some kind of apocalypse in which we will be so much better off for having hoarded these necessities of life.
