Today Will and I went grocery shopping for the first time since…November? The end of October? I can’t remember.

Okay–we’ve gone to the grocery store plenty of times since then, but only for a basket full of quick stop items.  We’d get some quick frozen foods or order pizza or go get stuff at a drive through to keep us fed but the cooking real food for meals? Has been pretty much non existent for a few months–ironic for someone whose current favorite movie is Julie & Julia I know.

Why have we gone so long without doing a major “let’s stock up!” grocery trip?

Well, the big reason is that we had to wait for the funds to be able to afford a big shopping trip (tonight’s trip came in at $149).

The other biggest reason is that when I was pregnant I had no idea what I’d want to eat or what food wouldn’t make me immediately regret eating it.  So we’d wait for me to have a food craving that lasted longer than ten minutes and then go out and get whatever it was that I was thinking about.

And because when I was pregnant standing up and cooking a whole meal left me drained.  I’d need a nap just from standing up for half an hour.

And then after we found out there wouldn’t be a baby after all, I had the appetite of…a hibernating bear?  Something that doesn’t eat a whole lot or very often.

But a couple of nights ago I felt inspired.  And 100% sick of fast food and frozen dinners.  So I went out and bought some chicken.  And made a scrumptious and (not so very) complicated dinner of butter soaked baked chicken and canned corn.  And even though we’ve eaten this roughly a kwazillion times over the last few years (what? It’s tasty and easy to make!), it still tasted SO GOOD.

And I’ve been watching Julie & Julia like I’m afraid someone’s going to take it away.  And I’ve been reading through The Way to Cook like it’s a novel.  And seriously? I cannot take any more frozen dinners.  Bleeeccccch.

So we went to the grocery store.  And stocked up on pretty much everything.  And I am very much looking forward to the pot roast I’m going to make in the crock pot tomorrow.

We also picked up a caffeinated soda for me while we were at the store because one of my favorite things to do is to fall asleep with Will at the end of the day and he’s staying up late to work on homework (and play stupid World of Warcraft) and, as you can probably tell, it’s kind of taking effect.

So um… I’m going to go do something else for a while until it’s time to go to bed!