Saturday, April 30, 2011

Credit Card Bills

Urgh.

There are two things I don't look forward to:
-making up meal plans
-seeing the credit card bill

Doing both in the same day is a little...I don't know, daunting?

I hate making meal plans for so many reasons.
  1. I am a picky eater
  2. Most, if not all, the time it's just myself. It's hard to make dinner for one.
    There's only so much leftover casserole before one can eat before getting sick of said casserole.
  3. Hard for me to resist eating all those junky foods. I'd love to give in and buy those frozen chicken tenders and corn dogs. But I firmly believe that in the long run that these foods can and will kill us...sooner.
  4. Finding foods and recipes that I actually like...see #1.
If I could have things my way, I'd eat honey Greek style yogurt for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And frozen chicken tenders and corn dogs and french fries and, and...
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Credit card bill. Ok, so maybe I secretly like getting my credit card bill every month.

The first I do is scan for "stupid stuff." Starbucks, sodas at Speedway and other c-stores. Sometimes I take a high-lighter and mark these SS items. If there's a lot of high lighted items, I know I really need to challenge myself (and practice self control) and purchase less of these items. After a while making allowances for coffee (shops) becomes a natural process. Sometimes I screw up and have to re-focus and re-challenge myself.

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