Getting my money's worth out of $75 in (mostly) organic food

I went to Whole Foods last night to invest in food to start my little toxic cleanse...



Yes, that's what $75 buys you these days in Organic Foods. Only about 3 or 4 things were not organic, and except for the bananas, all of the produce is local. I could still knock part of that out by going to the Farmers Market (or accepting Sarah's offer of produce when I get home - never had it, but from what I remember, her house is quite possibly the closest thing to God's personal farm that you'll ever see!), so I actually think I shopped pretty well. Yes, I could have done without the $7 frozen pizza, the $6 crab & artichoke dip, the $9 gallon of protein juice-y stuff, and baby bananas at $1.99/lb when the real ones are 79cents/pound, but...baby steps, people, baby steps. Plus, that whole chicken is organic - and local - and actually cost LESS than a comparable chicken next door at Superfresh, not to mention it's a bajillion dollars less than buying the cut-up, skinned and de-boned chicken. For dinner I had a huge salad, and I couldn't even finish it because I was so full. I'll see how well I do in keeping this up.

Anyone have ANY idea how to cook a whole chicken? No, not going to do beer-can chicken. We only have bottles of beer, and if I were to buy one can of beer I'd have to buy a whole case. Welcome to Pennsylvania's stupid liquor laws.

I'm still working.

I'm posting more tomorrow (I had to get some work done with that whole art career thing tonight) but I'll post my needs-some-editing-down blog tomorrow when I'm finished with it.

It was a beautiful day.
To my editor: suck it.

It WAS really nice, so I had to say that it was a beautiful day. And I'm posting a big old RANT tomorrow...its about people who bitch about not being able to change a certain thing about themselves and then resort to every excuse in the book, including saying that people like me who actually worked their ass off to change that part of themselves "just have it easier".

Here's a rant - ever notice how these days, you can rarely have an unseasonably warm day without some sort of jackass commenting about how it's due to Global Warming?

It makes me want to go out to Delaware, find my SUV and drive it around for a while, doing stupid errands that I could have done in half the time on foot. Then I want to run around and leave every light on in my house.

It's okay, though. I'm greener than that.