Consumption Habits and Adios M&M's

I want someone to do a study on whether or not people eat more if they have more options to choose from.  I've lived with Genna during the school year for a few years now and our kitchen/food area feels empty at least 75% of the week.  For that reason, I end up binging on graham crackers or peanut butter or whatever baked good we have from the weekend before.  We're both under the impression that if we stocked up on a ton of food we would eat all of it.  Irrational amounts.  Extremely quickly.  No sense of when to stop.  That sounds very unhealthy and unfortunately pretty realistic.  BUT I went grocery shopping today, and in fact my mother would be very proud of me.  Well, she is very proud of me because I texted her to boast and she told me so.  I did all my fruit shopping at Whole Foods to ensure some deliciousness and fresh qualities, then proceeded to do my basic food necessity shopping at Aldi's, to ensure I still have money at the end of the week.  This included bread, peanut butter, yogurt, graham crackers, corn flakes, frozen soft pretzels (like I said, necessities).  Please tell me why anyone would choose to purchase mustard from Whole Foods when you can get some very similar tasting shit from Aldi's for a third of the price.  Convenience and laziness when it comes to having to make two stops for groceries?  Yes, absolutely correct that is why, for I am guilty of that so many times.

So I ended up with a lot of food after grocery shopping today, and for the latter two meals of my day I had so much available I couldn't even decide what to eat so I just dipped random foods in hummus and called it a day.  I'll probably finish off with a bowl of cereal.  I hope when I have a family someday I don't treat them like I treat myself.

My dad tells me if I continue vegetarianism and I don't learn to cook meat properly I'll never get a husband.  I told him that's silly and my husband would love me because it's been proven vegetarians taste better.  I think that comment went right past him because he's programmed himself not to evaluate anything I say that may have any sexual or inappropriate reference involved.

"Best Text I Received Today" award that I just made up and already want to rename goes to my mom @ 5:36pm:  "The warehouse is out of peanut butter m&m's my life is over"
And she wonders why I dramatise little things in life.
xxxx
A

Baby Dinosaurs

If I keep this blog going as consistently and long as I hope to, sooner or later my readers are going to be aware of a lot of my habits and those who are close to me.  I want to get an extreme one out of the way right now.  A running joke in my immediate family is how much my sister and I eat.  She brings out the worst in me.  When I'm living on my own I eat very reasonably and I'm pretty good at portioning out my meals.  And I think when she's alone she's decent at it.  Granted, we've both been vegetarians for a while now which naturally allows your body to consume more food without feeling as full.  She is a dedicated dancer which I'm sure helps a lot with keeping her trim, but I think really it's our metabolism.  We owe a lot to our genes, and I acknowledge that.  But when we're together, we eat like the food in front of us is our last meal ever.

The scene at the end of "No Strings Attached", where Natalie Portman's character orders and consumes an ungodly amount of breakfast food could have been written after dining out with my sister and I.  Basically, together we eat like baby dinosaurs.  My mom took us to Eat n' Park this morning and our table had 3 pancakes, 4 pieces of toast, a waffle, hash browns, and two plates of scrambled eggs.  Oh yeah, and my mom had a fruit cup and two biscuits (we're not adopted, maybe food moderating comes with age).

  Following breakfast, my sister and I proceeded to talk about the leftover amount of "dirt" from last night's family dinner.  If you've never had "dirt", you need to.  It's a beautiful mess of oreo, chocolate pudding and whip cream.  My mom let us eat the leftovers right out of the pan, which was awesome because that's what Mack gets scolded for most at our house.  Eating ice cream straight out of the carton.  #2 action is eating ice cream out of the carton or any food while at the computer.
"You got a C on that exam?  At least I hope you tried your hardest hunny."
"Please don't have random sex, Mackenzie." This was serious advice given today after I, the child who my parents have seriously given up on but still love and pray for, made a very dirty play on words.
"I love your dress sweetie!  Have a nice day at school!"  The dress doesn't make it 20 minutes through the school day before getting a dress code violation.  We're not sluts, we just have really long legs and no upper body.
"MACKENZIE PUT THAT ICE CREAM IN A FREAKING BOWL.  AND YOU ARE GOING TO RUIN THE COMPUTER."

This is for anyone who thinks I exaggerate.  Please note the exercise ball in the background to note our attempts at a healthy lifestyle.
xxxx
A