Grocery shopping & hunger

[i]subtitle:[/i] why we should not go the grocery store when hungry….

It was a simple trip the big warehouse store, the place I consider a grocery store, only, I hadn’t eaten much all day. As I was pushing the shopping cart around, loading up on quantities of necessary items like cat litter and Diet Dr. Pepper, I happened across an end cap with a special deal on cartons of Pop Tarts. Fair enough. Works out to about 30 cents per serving. Or something like that, the hungry math was fuzzy, at best.

Near as I can tell. The ingredients are basically refined and enriched flour, and sugar. Plus a long list of other flavors and preservatives. Not that it mattered.

So I get home, and I pop open one package. Which, in my famished state, leads to another. Then another. So that’s three sets of Pop Tarts, and suddenly, I don’t feel so well.

Grocery shopping is best accomplished [i]after[/i] a nutritious meal, one that doesn’t involve half a case of pop tarts.

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