I do most of my grocery shopping on line and it works for me because I'm not a huge fan of food shopping and also buying on line prevents me from throwing that six-pack of cupcakes into the basket as I spot them strolling by.
The supermarket, of course, picks out your meat and produce, but I've never had a problem with that. For today's delivery, I ordered four loose bagels -- meaning four bagels from the bakery department: two for tomorrow's brunch and one for a sandwich on Monday and one for a sandwich on Tuesday.
Evidently, the rules changed. I have ordered loose bagels in varying quantities many times before, so I put 4 in the little box on line. New Rule: Now they sell bagels in groups of 6. Didn't notice, so I wound up with 4 X 6 bagels or 24 bagels. Anyone want to come for brunch?
I don't have a full size refrigerator in my tiny kitchen so I don't have a full-size freezer compartment and it already has a big bag of commercial ice along with other food and so I was only able to fit 12 bagels into the freezer.
I like bagels, but not so much that I'd want to eat a dozen of them prior to their going stale around Tuesday.
I really do hate wasting food, and money. I considered waiting to hear someone in the hallway and running out and offering them bagels. But, everyone else in this building is in their late 20s, early 30s and I don't want to be the crazy old lady who tries to give out excess bagels. I just imagined them politely saying "no thank you" and slowly backing away from me. I don't know if I would take a bagel from a stranger.
I don't like to feed the pigeons as I think they are flying rats for the most part, and I don't want to put the bagels in my garden for fear of attracting a rat. I have not seen a rat or evidence of one in my garden for more than 10 years, but I want to keep it that way.
I can really be unforgiving of myself with stuff like this, and it's ridiculous. Worst case is that a bunch of bagels get tossed, and I'm more careful next time.
Anybody do anything worse than this today?
Use more ice in your martini's or get rid of just enough ice to put the rest in the freezer. You can also put a few in the fridge. As long as you toast them, they will be fine.
ReplyDeleteStephanie
P.S. send me six, you can't get a decent bagel here to save your life.
I second Stephanie's suggestion--and suggest you put them in a plastic zip-lock bag. Did your supermarket close its bakery section where the loose bakery products were sold?
ReplyDeleteI'll hop on Acela and be there for brunch;-)