There should be no room in my diet for worrying about the price of food. And right now there is and I have to change my ways. No I’m not talking about not trying to save money, I’m always up for that - like buying my Kind Fruit & Nut Bars on Amazon to save 50 cents per bar. And I’m not talking about spending too much money on the good stuff either. I routinely pay $20 per pound for dry sea scallops.
I’m talking about eating simply so that the food doesn’t go to waste. Even if you know you are full.
Here’s an example from Saturday night. I bought 2 half-pound prime sirloin steaks for the 4 of us. That’s about $18 worth of meat. We enjoyed a delicious meal of sirloin, chopped salad and rice. I had cleared off my plate and was about to dig into a yogurt when I noticed that on the steak plate in the middle of the table there remained a small piece of sirloin, maybe an ounce worth, that had not been eaten. I asked someone to eat it and neither my wife nor kids wanted any more.
This is $18 per pound prime sirloin people!
So I ate it. It was the principle of the thing. You don’t buy $18 per pound prime sirloin and then not eat it all. That piece was too small to save; it would have been chucked. So despite having eaten my share and already being ready to spoon into my yogurt I threw that hunk of meat into my gullet not because I was hungry, but because I couldn’t see throwing it away. I didn’t need it, we already easily had $18 worth of enjoyment out of those steaks, but my mind just won’t let me see that piece of steak go wasted.
Now for some reason the pieces that were cut up and not eaten on my son’s plate didn’t bother me in the same way. I had no problem throwing those away, so it’s not like I’m eating all the scraps, but it was the unsullied piece that had yet to be served that I could not let be tossed.
This problem, this obsession, follows me around to fine dining restaurants too. “We paid good money for that, I’m eating it all.” I’d be more likely to say this at say, La Belle Vie than at Denny’s, so there is a cost component to it - if there is a perceived expense or opulence to the dish I don’t feel right not eating it all.
This is what I mean about not having room in my diet for worrying about the price of food. I enjoy eating and I will continue to on occasion buy prime sirloin, or dry sea scallops, or visit fine dining restaurants, and when I do so I need to enjoy my food but stop when I’ve had enough - not worry about the principle of the thing.
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