I have never been the type of person to snack in the evening (now during the day at my desk... different story of course!) When I grocery shop, I rarely get any "junk" food for myself. Mr. Husband and step-children love chocolate, I do not. So mostly all our snack food consist of chocolate in some shape or form, ice cream, cookies, pudding, etc. None of those appeal to me. At all. I buy hearts of palm, baby corn (don't ask), tuna packets, dried veggies, rice cakes, and blue corn chips to have for work. (Disclaimer: I do NOT eat healthy, I just pretend that I do when grocery shopping).
A while back, I thought I should buy myself a few things just in case I had the urge to snack one day. No one here likes the food that I like anyway so I figured it was a safe bet. I wanted Fruity Pebble cereal and grape jelly (these weird people only eat strawberry jam, who does not eat grape jelly!) After a few weeks of the shopping trip, I skipped dinner one night and was craving a PB and jelly sandwich. I walked into the kitchen, took out the peanut butter and bread, then excitedly went to the fridge to take out the jelly. At this point, I'm looking forward to warm toast and melted PB and jelly. MMMM! Delicious! And its not there. We are talking a few weeks people! WHERE WAS MY JELLY!!?? I searched high and low, there was no jelly. My small jar was gone. VANISHED! Gone. Step-children, who previously only liked strawberry jam had finished my jelly. (We had two jars of strawberry jam, in case you are wondering). Bummer. But I'll eat some Fruity Pebbles, I thought. Step-children and Mr. Husband do not like them so surely my "Family Size" box is there. Nope. The box is gone. There is no box. There is no cereal. Not even an empty box, which truthfully was amazing, normally they leave empty boxes in the pantry. Sigh.
I'm far from greedy. I will share everything I own. This isn't about not wanting to share. Its just purely about the hilarity in the situation. I did eat toast with PB however and I added honey. I pretended it was grape jelly. I have the imagination of a 5 year old, I can pretend all day! I have yet to buy any more grape jelly or Fruity Pebbles. But the next time I do, I will make sure I eat some of it the next day. Then step-children and Mr. Husband can eat it all they want. Or maybe, I'll just compromise and start eating their snacks. Too bad its all chocolate and chocolate is not my thing. Maybe I should just start labeling my food, as in work fridge labeling.
