Raven’s RV
The ongoing education and adventures of two rank newbie RVers

Oct 28, 2007

Food, glorious food

Today was finally the food shopping day. We went to the storage shed first, where Don was all for dropping off the van until I reminded him of the food part. ;)

We tossed out so much food when we emptied our fridge for the move that it is a crying shame. I feel huge guilt about throwing out food of any kind, but there was really no choice. We would therefore be shopping from scratch–this was a shopping trip to set up a household. Naturally, then, I got a bit carried away.

I wasn’t shopping while physically hungry–that kind results in a lot of high carbohydrate snack food for which I later kick myself. I was shopping while emotionally hungry: after being deprived of real food and cooking for almost an entire month. Don formed a search party and found me at the checkout with an entire cart full of stuff, most of which was perishable. I started laughing when I saw his face: there were already lots of paper sacks and I’d just gotten started. Yet I had no doubt that we would make it all fit, because the fridge was almost empty and the freezer was bare. We had the original Mother Hubbard set-up.

It all fit, and there was room to spare.

Dinner was chicken and pasta in bottled tomato and mushroom sauce. It was the best meal I’d had for weeks.

Chicken pasta dinner