MY JOURNEY TO PREVENT MID-DAY MELTDOWNS OVER GENETICALLY MODIFIED SNACKS

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I am pretty sure that most parents can relate to the instantaneous circling of hungry vultures disguised as children that occurs within seconds of cracking the refrigerator door or attempting to inconspicuously un-crinkle something from the pantry. Or, the fact that 99.9% of our grocery shopping consists of making sure we have the correct snacks that our children like (this week, of course) while slipping in that one coveted item for ourselves after much internal debate. Because, why after all of the money that we are spending on this grocery haul would we spend $12.00 on a bag of almonds to sustain ourselves between meals? We will survive, right? Or, better yet, we will just eat the few particles left on our kids’ breakfast or lunch plates. That will surely be enough to satisfy our nutritional needs. Well, quarantine cracked me. And, as I literally found myself yelling (and I mean yelling) “mommy needs snacks, too” while near tears over all of the M&M’s having been eaten out of the $4.98 bag of Great Value Mountain Trail Mix that I added to the pickup order for myself, I realized that mommy needs some dam food. And, not the kind of food that I cook (or, on three out of seven days – that I “heat up.”) Thus, I decided to set out on my food adventure to prevent any further mid-day meltdowns over genetically modified snacks.

Since I first and foremost needed a method to eat my way around Gainesville, I convinced my boyfriend that we needed to make an oh-so-original sandwich baggie filled with handwritten names of restaurants in our local area that we could pull from each week. It was a cute idea, but 0/10 times are we actually feeling the place we pick. In our defense, sometimes we are too hungry or underdressed to carry out our last minute pick. Maybe it’s a sign that I would be better at writing a blog about commitment issues than food. But, best ignore those red flags. Anyways, I’m rambling now.

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