One thing this season of life is affording me is time to grocery shop uninterrupted. WHAT A LUXURY. Unfortch, I am squandering that luxury on utter bullshit. BUT IT IS FUN.
I went to Costco before my meetings the other morning, and LOOK AT THIS PARKING LOT!
IHO 5 on a Friday, here are 5 categories of totally happy but totally non essential things I bought (BY MYSELF) at Trader Joe's:
(Also this podcast episode about TJ's is fascinating).
1. Self care:
TJ's face masks are my ride-or-die, and now Dorothy likes them, too. I also snagged a vanilla pumpkin candle for the stovetop and a pumpkin hand cream for me and a Laneige knock off lip mask in cinnamon roll for Dorothy (who is a Laneige stan, so we shall see)
2. Frozens:
3. Things I actually needed to make dinner:
4. SNAAAAAAAACKS
I am a sucker for the Pumpkin Walks into a Bar bars and the pumpkin pancake mix. I also love the fall leaf chips. The candy is for poker night. The kids love the tiny chocolate chip cookies, and Coop is the honey roasted peanuts eater. Dorothy's thing is the chocolate pretzels and the pirate's booty. The sugar cookie dough balls are for Minnie to have a fun Friday thing since she's not invited to poker night.
5. Actual grocery items that I might use later:
bananas because the ones from Costco go from green to brown, spaghetti for whenever. Fusilli and pumpkin pasta sauce as a quick dinner option, a variety of lunch meat (I cannot quit lunch meat), cooked lentils from the produce section-- these are so delightfully easy to throw in salads or make into a burrito or burrito bowl.
$200 of totally random things-- but at least there is a coherent meal and a few other meal starter ingredients-- could be so much sillier, I guess.
