You know how food can be really scary? How we never really know what's inside and what it's been exposed to in all of those factories? How every year or so a bad batch of something goes out to the public?
Well, even with all that, I still think it's much scarier to eat out all the time. I think the potential for food poisoning is much greater.
So, after two months of almost solid eating out, I really shouldn't be surprised that I spent last night sick.
After exercising and being out in the hot sunny weather yesterday, I was fighting a major headache. Two doses of tylenol later and I was worried it was turning into a migraine. So I thought I'd eat a light dinner and go to bed early. And how's fish for a light dinner? Sounds perfect, right? Except it went terribly wrong and prevented me from getting that early bed time (the silver lining is that my headache seemed to go away, so at least I wasn't up sick all night with a migraine on top of it).
I just had some apple juice, and if nothing terrible happens, I will be heading out to the market to get more food. The kind you have to prepare and cook and clean up after yourself.
I feel like my poor stomach needs a break and I am too scared to eat out again right now, so I guess I am going to have to get over my laziness and plan meals again (or, we'll just survive by eating pb&j's and grilled cheeses for a few weeks). I really have no idea how I came up with 20-25 meals a month. What did I used to cook? My mind is completely blank. I mentioned this week that I was going to start weaning myself off the eating out gradually. You know, starting with taking out one meal a day. Well Wednesday I went to lunch with a friend, so that meant no going out for dinner. What did I do? Did I cook a delicious gourmet meal? No. I cut up a cantaloupe and put out some rolls and cheese. While I actually found the meal delicious and satisfying (nice and light after all the eating out), I don't think that type of "meal" would work 6 days a week.
I guess I'll see what happens at the store. And maybe tonight we can have rolls and grapes, you know, to mix it up. I definitely won't be buying fish.
