Day 46- Gravity Defying Oatmeal

Living with roommates always has its quirks. One I'm running into now is that mine are *less motivated* than I am to clean. Anything. So dishes pile up in the sink, there's coffee all over the counter, and I need to re-wash my clothes, because they've been sitting in the washer waiting for them to empty the drier for close to a day.

The dishes thing is the real problem today. I actually wash my (1) plate and (1) bowl after I use them. I accept that once I wander off to do something else, I am *never* coming back. I also wash whatever else I used (wok excepted, it gets rinsed). So fork, knife, spoon, cutting board, mixing bowl, whatever, through the sink and into the dish drain.

Unfortunately, they seem to disappear from there and never make it to their little homes. I'm not totally sure where the flatware is, but I know where it isn't- in the drawer where it goes. So I found the one (1) clean non-knife, non serving utensil- a fork- and made oatmeal, with the goal of being able to eat it with that fork. Three minutes in the microwave and I had oatmeal that would stay on the fork in any position I tried. Magic.

For lunch/ dinner I cooked a pound of pintos and had them with some onion, garlic, lime juice and a couple taco sized flour tortillas I bought (I know, I know). I have a recipe for them, but wanted store bought ones so I have some kinda back up if I'm hungry, need something to hold food, and don't feel like making fresh tortillas. The rest of the batch of beans is waiting in the fridge for other meals.

I did get to publix, by the way. I wasn't paying enough attention while i was checking out, though, and missed the guy charging me sweet onion price for yellow onions. Normally i'd be amused but not really care, but sweet onions are $1.99/lb, and yellow are on special for 89 cents a pound, so there's a bit of a difference. luckily it's all made up by a coupon I found while buying flour.

publix stacks coupons onto their deals. The Gold Medal flour is running on special right now for $1.49/ 5lb bag. About half the bags have (had?) 55 cent off coupons on them. I could only find one coupon, but I know they used to be there. So I got one five pound bag for $0.94, and three others for $1.49 each. Not bad- I now have 10lbs of higher protein, unbleached bread flour and 10lbs of normal unbleached flour. I would have gotten all bread flour, but there were only the two bags left. That plus canola oil for $1.95 ( A little higher, but not bad), and very expensive tortillas (20 soft taco sized for $2.49) finished me off. $10.61 including tax. should be less, but without more coupons, and because I wasn't paying attention, I'll just have to eat the mistake.

but Yay! better quality flour! The stuff I've been using (and now need to finish up) tastes ashy. I don't know if it's the dusty bits that are ground too fine and not really made of wheat, or what.