Stocked & Ready To Rock

So Suzan and I have a 25 cubic foot freezer … that means we need to buy food. Fortunately, our local butcher is more than happy to help.

I like to cook at home, and the kitchen in my new house reflects it. Gas range with high-output burner, double-oven (which I thought was silly until I had Thanksgiving at the house last year and watched friends fight over the oven), kitchen island, real wood cabinets and Silestone countertops. It didn’t save me any money, but I’ll spend a lot of time in it so it needs to be nice.

My friends who cook (Jody, Amy, etc.) are also welcome to experience my kitchen whenever houseguests get hungry (hint, hint).

Anyway, Suzan and I stopped by the Sears outlet a few weeks back and picked up a huge freezer. Cooking at home means having food at home, and having a huge freezer means saving money on the food we keep at home. Great Western Meats in Loganville, along with being a good butcher shop, offers a good discount when you buy in bulk. We ambled home with bags of quality meat, set in foam trays & double-layered in food service wrap, at less than $3 per pound if you average it across all of the cuts (lean ground chuck, ribeyes, roasts, etc.).

The mass food purchase compliments my last trip to Sam’s Club, which brought home my 55″ TV (don’t panic, it was on sale … but I had been saving up for that one, so it’s not eating away at my credit card). We have this bad habit of pulling into the driveway at random intervals with large objects inthe back of the truck … this really needs to stop at some point.

Once I add a proper DVD player & receiver, we’re ready to continue our NexFlix habit in widescreen. Suzan and I watched Shadow of the Vampire by patching in my existing DVD player without the aid of proper component cables.

Combine this with a trip to Kroger for items not completely made of amino-acids & we’re stocked. Food in the freezer, couches in the den, big TV on the wall … it’s almost home. All I need is the small stuff, which is still scattered in small corners of the old house. Suzan moved some pictures over for the front office, so we’re starting to feel at home.