Out of curiosity...

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How many of you are able to use the majority of what you buy, and while it is still in optimal condition, with regards to groceries? No matter how much care I have given that concern, food often goes to waste. While I will admit, the greatest ability I have to lend to any task like grocery shopping combined with meal planning is rather weak, I have to wonder how many people even try to combine the two in the first place any more. Who needs to make sure baking soda is fresh, the lettuce and carrots in the crisper are used before they go limp (or green(er)), or even that meat is portioned for use or the freezer rightly with restaurants everywhere? Who needs to plan for meals when it probably is nearly cheaper and definitely easier to eat out even twice a day? I suppose the depression has caused some people into austerity measures, but enough of such to actually *gulp* cook?

Anyway, for those of you who do plan shopping and meal prep... How? Were you taught this growing up, did you learn it mostly as a young adult on your own, or did it fit as you found a mate and maybe then started to childrenify? I would love to get some of that down. I can cook but I had to leave the Jedi school of food prep for the dark side because of my disinterest crossed with my inability to keep dishes up and plan meals and shopping as a single step. I am not sure what a healthy home meal really is supposed to be, either, actually. A steak, and maybe a potato if they were somehow remembered, with sour cream and butter, and milk. Everything else is sort of, you know, stuff that mostly goes together. Oh sure, if I am buying spaghetti I will pick up marinara of some sort, and ground beef. If I buy cans of tuna, I will make sure I have mayonnaise and bread. But uhm, yeah. That honestly is about the depths of my level of planning.

By the way, I do think that, in time, if the real historians separate themselves from the majority academic socialists hack historians and write (then protect) real history, I do believe it will eventually be realized we are not facing a double dip. Any seeming increase in the economy, any recovery people currently see, will merely be realized as the U.S. government (among many governments) putting currency into the furnace to stay warm for a little bit. The governments are literally burning, destroying, real wealth in some insane hope of... something. At this point, I doubt if they know why. They are merely doing what everyone before them in recent history did, while trying to please certain major actors and spinning that it is good for us all. Well, that mixed with the wolves in various industries and the governments who are actively using the puppet as a host upon which to parasitically feast. When the blinders are lifted, my guess is that SS and Medicare are so insolvent, given the rest, that boomers can't be spared their just deserts.

And, I do find an amazing lack of concern among even the most hard hit. Until credit is maxed, no money is coming in, and they literally find themselves on the streets (after vandalizing the home they are losing), people continue to party like it was 1999. And they think they should be able to do so. Isn't that a right as well? Absolutely amazing. Then again, and a bit in fairness, most Americans have been living so easily for so long (yes, you, if you think about it, and me too) that there almost isn't a social structure upon which to base humble means living. I would have to go back to my grandparent's generation to find people who planned meals, lived on a real budget (that couldn't really be fudged), didn't worry about wants, and who actually grew wealth. Since then we have all been spenders, consumers. We were gifted wealth in many forms and spent it on wine and loose women and worthless jewels. It is gone. This will hurt.

Just a little morning cheer. Good day.