Discipline

I tend to get out of control when I go to any supermarkets that have superb selection of food at reasonable price. Just over the weekend, without having any real need for groceries, I ended up with an exact $159 worth of foods, drinks and baking pans. Even, frozen pizzas and frozen raspberries were picked up as well. Now we have more than enough supplies for months, 'til after new year, I am confident of. Of course, with Christmas being well on its way, the need to go back to the supermarket will rise again. We will need to bake some Christmas cookies and cakes, early. Yes, early, since we'll be leaving on the third week of December to New Zealand. Celebrating Christmas there? Maybe. It is very likely that we will be spending Christmas Day by sightseeing around Queenstown after attending the morning mass. We might cook, because we will have a kitchen in our apartment over there.

I am "punishing" myself by not allowing myself to go to supermarket unless there is an extremely essential need to go. There's this recipe of fried ricotta flat bread that I came across last night and I am dying to try it, but I can't, because I don't have ricotta in my fridge. This is a punishment for me because I feel the suffering from it. I have to struggle and fight the urge to cross the street. The supermarket is right across from our place, I can see it from my window...... Definitely not easy. It's almost like dieting and having to go to a party where all the tempting foods are laid out.

No matter what, I feel this is appropriate. My fridge is stuffed with food. We have many types of cheese, prosciutto, salami, chicken ham. Packs of Lurpak, canned drinks, lemons, oranges, apples and zillions of mangoes. Yes, in the span of eight days, we received 37 mangoes from a couple of generous friends from Indonesia. We gave a half of the first batch to a friend and some parish priests, but before we could finish them, another delivery came. Hooorrrayyy for more mangoes!!! There are practically two souls that consume mangoes in this house, with me being the main peeler. We are kind of sick of them..... really....

So we have been eating fresh sliced mangoes, we baked mango cake and we made mango slush. On the pipeline will be mango ice cream and mango lassie. We'll see how they turn out.