Banana Bread

I have a tendency to be a bit of a lazy slob. I'll admit it. I like to blame it on the fact that I'm a Sagittarius, but its not something I am proud of. I have to make up little games for myself to get things accomplished. Like for example, the mister and I have water drinking competitions to see who can drink 8 glasses or more by the end of the day. I inevitability lose, but at least I drink more than I normally would.

Right now we are in the midst of a week long "who can spend less money on food" competition. It is an attempt to cook more at home, which I love to do but because of the "lazy slob" factor I often order takeout, eat a third of it before tossing it in the trash. Also I can get caught up in the grocery shopping process and buy a 10 dollar jar of mustard without even realizing it. Then, said mustard is doomed to a lifetime on the miscellaneous condiments shelf in our fridge, only to be consumed on rare occasion. Its shameful and I need to stop the waste. The first step is admitting you have a problem, right?

It has been going well so far, at this very moment I have a loaf of banana bread cooling on the stove (points for re-purposing old bananas), some chicken marinating, and yesterdays five dollar allotment rolling over for today's festivities. This morning I was reading NY Mags 50 steps to Simple Happiness, and someone made the suggestion of spending a weekend buying nothing whatsoever. Yikes. Something I will need to work up to, but it is intriguing nonetheless. I think I might need a some sunshine for that.