The Sixty Dollar Grocery Curse

I have been shopping at Food Lion lately in an attempt to stop the restaurant habit I've acquired over the past few years.

Toward that end they see me usually once and sometimes twice a week and the bill is typically 'sixty something'.

I have noticed a distinct pattern with this and it's somewhat disturbing when I note that I really do need replenished stores when I go there.

After wandering through the isles even when I arrive with an agenda in the form of a list or simple impulse buy the outcome is typically the same.

I keep thinking I should have studied home economics with my sister in high school rather than agriculture.

I don't know, perhaps the mechanics I learned then have secretly served me better, but I find my domestic skills distinctly lacking in this my old age.

Sometimes I think I cook okay. Other times I think I suck at cooking.

Regardless, the expense seems a bit more than I had envisioned and it's likely to get worse.

Perhaps my personal food bill actually isn't all that high in reality ...