Being engineers, we pride ourselves on the ability to calculate our way out of a problem. However, being hungry individuals, we jumped the gun on our first order and fell short of what we needed for more than a few days of food…
So, cooling our jets on purchasing with just our stomachs, we began hunting down recipes and assembling a shopping list. A new rule was made just to be on the safe side: when you only need one, order two…when you need two, order three…capiche?. That way A) we’ll absolutely have enough for the recipe and B) we’ll have a small stash to call upon when we get lazy and resort making some sort of chef’s challenge with what’s left in the pantry. Yeah, we party hard like that.
After some (more) careful thought, we placed our second Prime Now order this morning. Again, we realized that canned goods are pretty plentiful. We also found a small glimmer of hope for meats…ground turkey. Hardly a rib-eye but baby steps. Fresh veggies were still hard to come by but we did find some frozen items that’ll do the trick. One small bonus we found was that, due to some limited stocking of certain items, we were forced to order organic versions of items we’d otherwise had picked up the non-organic versions of. Now, we’ve seen the documentaries and understand that going organic makes you live to 154, makes your teeth not fall out, and guarantees your acceptance into whatever afterlife you choose but we’ve yet to make that jump.
Being the iron chef I (the husband side) am, I made damn near the entire meal from our orders. Roasted broccoli with alfredo sauce over rotini. You can clearly see from the look on my wife’s face that she is blown away with my skills.
AFTERNOON UPDATE: we found more meat! Amazon Prime had same day delivery on chicken breast (12x7oz packets…sheesh). We also ordered 5 lbs of quinoa. That’ll feed, like, 200 people based on serving size.
A Month In The Amazon 