Cook at home, make a menu and actually follow it.

I’ve been trying harder to cook at home – grilled cheese sandwiches have been my salvation! We get dark German wheat bread and sharp cheddar cheese to make them taste more grown-up. Sometimes we even put spicy mustard on them. And I cut up apples and heat tomato soup. The whole process takes about ten minutes and Alex likes to eat them too! When he gets older I will use a cookie cutter to turn them into shapes for him! The whole meal including “upscale” cheese, bread, soup & fruit costs about $7 for the three of us. We used to spend twice that on take-out and another two dollars on baby food! Hope I can figure out something else to make before we get sick of it!

Okay, so we bought lots of beautiful healthy groceries!

Then we brought them home and I immediately devoured one of every piece of fruit in the bag – whether ripe or not. Had a huge tummy ache.

Then the next day I went back to my usual habit of eating nothing but yogurt, English muffins with outrageous amounts of butter & grilled cheese sandwiches with the occasional foray into spaghetti (and cup after cup of store bought coffee, of course).

I must somehow force myself and the family to prepare and sit down to a nice meal.

Okay – does it count if you go to the grocery store with the intention of buying stuff you can cook but instead you buy a tub of cheesecake filling and a can of blueberries and eat a cup of that for dinner? (Keep in mind that we opened both the tub of filling and the can of blueberries at home and put them in the cups ourselves!)