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EVERYBODY knows the saying "Rome wasn't build in a day". Well, the wise old asshole who came up with that witty tidbit was obnoxiously right. Change is hard. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just snap your fingers and suddenly undo all your bad habits? Marlboro would be out of business.

Anyway, I am still committed to becoming the next best me; I just have to remind myself patience. 

Yesterday I was feeling defeated after I had chips and salsa for lunch. Of course I didn't feed that to my kids. Those poor little things got stuck with organic hot dogs, crap yogurt (bought under desperate circumstances. How could a yogurt purchase ever be made under desperate circumstances, you ask? Well don't because I am going off on a tangent in the middle of my kids' lunch menu.) AND apples, which were likely GMO and definitely covered in wax. 

The truth is there wasn't much choice. My larder was so bare that at snack time (otherwise known as Second Breakfast) I broke down and ate croutons straight out of the bag. Of course I had to sneak around while doing so or I would have had to share them with Georgia. And I really didn't think she needed all of the partially hydrogenated oil right before the healthy lunch I had waiting in the wings for her. 

It's all about where I shop for me. If I go to Costco or HyVee, I leave with MOSTLY good choices but a few processed foods always slip into my cart. Like Texas Toast Croutons. But, if I go to say Trader Joe's (like I did today) nothing comes home in a box with the exception of say, butter, which doesn't count. 

I digress. Yesterday, starring sadly into my barren fridge, I thought:  How am I going to turn THIS into dinner? At that moment I decided to go all-in. I was going to use up ever last bit of deliciousness in my fridge, the rest of the time in my day, and every clean dish in my house and create the BEST DINNER EVER!!!

Even if it meant nothing but beans for dinner the next day!

Even if it meant no cream in my coffee the next morning!

Even if it meant creating a calorie explosion poised to harden our arteries exponentially!

We were going to eat like KINGS!

After taking stock of what was on hand I pulled together left over chicken, butter, sour cream, half and half, spinach, lasagna noodles, bacon, parmesan, a little tub of quark, a half a container of ricotta cheese, and mozzarella. Soon those items were on my counter ready to become our fest. I think there was only three lonely bell peppers, a few sad carrots, and the condiments left in the refrigerator. Oh dear, this post is starting to sound like a conversation with my grandmother who has to catalogue every ingredient in the salad she ate at the church picnic in 1963. (Please, no one tell her I said that. I'd hate to hurt her feelings, as she really is the coolest grandma in the world.) 

So, fast-forward a few hours: After all the chicken shredding, bacon frying, spinach wilting, noodle boiling, cheese mixing, lasagna layering was complete every dish in my house really WAS dirty and we sat down to the best dinner ever. Sure it, is hard to make a bad meal when your main ingredients are cheese and bacon. And, sure Smoochy and I probably each at the caloric equivalent of a Bloomin' Onion for dinner... but I felt like the Queen Bee Betty F-n-Crocker. Then I took a picture of it. And now I am bragging about it. Hmmm. But tonight I have tons fruits and veggies back in the house... and no idea what to cook for dinner. Maybe Smoochy will pick up a pizza from Costco for me on the way home. 

PS: Costco and Texas Toast are not giving me free stuff, but if they wanted too I probably wouldn't turn down some croutons. I'm out of 'em.