The diet of an artist

So I went to the grocery store today to stock up on some necessities.  It wasn't grocery day (that's reserved for Mondays) but as Monday was a holiday and my fridge was looking quite bare with it's family sized pack of chicken drumsticks leftover from the beach, giant piece of week old cheesecake leftover from a catered party at work, odd condiments, and aloe vera to treat my aching sunburnt back (15 hours at the beach is not ever a good idea), I decided to break my schedule and pick up some things to get me through the week.  Come to think of it perhaps I should change my grocery day...Monday may not be the best choice, but that's an entirely different subject and irrelevant at the moment.  So back to the task...

They say you can tell a lot about a person by what they buy, what they eat.  It shows you what is important to them in life.  For example, someone that stocks up on brown rice, chicken breast, and leafy greens is most likely someone who values an active lifestyle and their health.  Someone who stocks up on the sweets likes to indulge and places more value on comfort and someone who frequents the frozen food or ramen isles is someone with either little time, or patience to care about nutrition.  Granted my observations may be very basic and at times incorrect but you get my general gist.  So what did I buy?  Well let's see...

Bread, pop tarts, more bread, nutra grain bars, cheese...the necessities for living my lifestyle.  It wasn't always this way, I used to love dinner.  More specifically cooking extravagant dinners for myself and my roommates or boyfriends or whomever I could at the time.  I loved thumbing through the recipe book, writing the shopping lists, hitting the market, all the slicing, dicing, stiring, simmering, the multi tasking and challenge of timing it right so that everything was done at the same time.  Hot vegis, meat, starch, perfect unison perfect temperature perfect square meal.  Granted this was back before I worked nights and weekends, back before I was a starving artist, back before I worked three jobs to become a starving artist.  Times have changed.  I don't have the luxury of planning out and creating such meals, I've siphoned my funds towards classes instead of expensive grocery trips, and my time towards work and scene work and everything else in between instead of hours in the kitchen perfecting my culinary skills.

So here I was, in the self check out lane with my carbs, quick breakfast options (this was the first time I think I've EVER bought pop tarts...but waking up and getting to a 9 am class after working till 2:30 am the previous night calls for extreme measures), and cheese.  Breakfast and lunch have become my only consistent meals I have at home, and on a tight budget and schedule you can't beat home made sandwiches and instant semi-nutritious meal options.  At least not for a mid week quick grocery trip.  I do have three nights where I can make myself dinner if I watch my time wisely, and for those meals I peruse the meat and fish department eyes peeled for a good weekly special on grocery day.  I'll dedicate an entire post to that later, complete with meal ideas and do it at home tips. As for today, I wasn't going to get distracted by more than the Kings Hawaiian Bread that was on sale and ended up coming home with me for no other reason than it's deliciousness.

...oh, that and the best kind of sandwiches ever...ICE CREAM SANDWICHES!  Can you tell where my priorities lie?  Lol.