Now we're softer. We've gotten used to having whatever we want to eat every second of every day. If we don't have cheese in the fridge, well, that's a cause for a quick trip to the grocery store.
We're the people who like to go to the grocery store. Seriously. I enjoy it in the same way that I enjoy cooking. It's a place where my imagination can run wild...sometimes too wild according to Kevin. Anyway, because we like to go to the grocery store, it's not hard to imagine that the lack of cheese in our fridge would allow us to run out to our favorite place in order to have that perfect meal tonight.
That's where the mythical event of past comes. What if we stopped going to the grocery store until all of the food in the house was gone? How long would that take? Two weeks? A month? Three months? Well, we're considering figuring out.
Like I said, Kevin's done this twice before. This experiment is the reason we don't buy Jell-O. Ever. Apparently he got down to about five boxes of Jell-O and decided to just throw them away instead of eating a meal of lime and cherry Jell-O one night. And, that was how the first Great Food Out ended.
Before we begin, we have to figure out the rules. What constitutes "food"? Is ketchup food? Is ground thyme food? Are sugar and flour and molasses food? What will we have to throw away at the end in order to allow the Great Food Out to come to an eventual end?
When do we start? Do we start with our last grocery trip, or do we go to the store and stock up on things that we know will make the next however-long-it-is better? That seems like cheating. It almost seems like this should hurt.
Can I buy seeds and grow fresh veggies in my garden? And if so, does that mean someone else that I knew personally could...and I could, say, go to the Farmers' Market like we always do in the summer time? Or, should we just wait until the end of summer, when the fresh veggies won't call to me in the night?
As you can see, I'm thinking I'm going to have a hard time with this.
The following are my opinions on how we can do this, while being true to the idea but still staying sane:
- We start when Kevin gets out of school.
- We don't count spices or condiments as food.
- We don't count raw baking ingredients (sugar, yeast & flour) as food.
- We can buy food to bring to friends' homes for potluck dinners, but we have to bring it all and leave it there.
- We can grow things in my garden, and we can go to the Farmers' Market. I do believe that the Farmers' Market is cheating, but I'm not opposed to cheating.
I think that's all I need to figure out and get Kevin on board with. What do you think?
