Since my previous post had to do with Costco, I thought I'd follow up with this one about shopping, cooking and eating. Grocery shopping
has never been a great deal of fun, but now is isn’t fun at all even though I
can buy anything I want without having to consider John’s likes and dislikes.
Still, I guess about 90% of what I bought at the store was purchased for John
because my grocery bill has gone from hundreds of dollars a month to maybe a couple hundred. Still, I am eating well and find I am enjoying being
able to cook just for myself because my choices can be of a much wider variety.
John was always a good eater and ate a lot of fruit. I don’t eat
that much fruit, but I do eat way more vegetables than John ever thought
about…his idea of a vegetable was green beans out of a can. Salad was one
iceberg lettuce leaf with half a bottle of dressing. He liked hamburger
patties…me not so much; and I haven’t cooked one since he died. He didn’t want
steak, no matter how tender because it was “difficult” to chew; and yet, he
loved pork chops and could eat them often. What’s the difference between
chewing steak and a pork chop???
As an example of what I like, I made my first Thai salmon curry a few weeks ago. This is a dish I discovered a
long time ago at a Thai restaurant that went out of business. Since then I’ve
found only one other restaurant that offered this spicy and yummy treat. My
shopping trip that week included things like red curry paste, Thai fish sauce,
Thai basil and bell peppers (John was allergic to bell peppers and just the
smell would make him gag.) My first attempt turned out very well although it
could have been a bit spicier…next time.