The Art of Zen Living

This isn’t your typical “Dough!” entry.  I’d envisioned “Dough!” as being more about bread as food, not bread as dessert.  However, Costco had huge containers of strawberries and mom offered to split them with me, and right then I knew what the next bread article was going to be.

I also dried some in the dehydrator (along with some bananas) to use in my breakfast cereal mix.  I’m getting ahead of myself.  The breakfast cereal is an article for Vegetarian week.

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My loving kindness mantra gets good usage on any average day, but today was something special.  You’d think that perhaps I did a lot of driving in rush hour, or had a difference of opinion with a friend, or waited in line at a government service only to be told I had to go do something else first and come back.

My friend, it was nothing of the sort.  I went shopping with the intention to eat moderately healthy.  I wanted to see what the average shopper was up against in sorting through it all.  I went to WalMart - both because the prices there, according to my grocery guide, were likely to be lowest on the things I wanted, and because it was somewhere that a significant percentage of America shops.  Frugal and educational (for me) and relevant.

I wasn’t annoyed at Walmart.  The store was clean, and not too crowded.  The shelves looked a little picked over (for instance, I didn’t get the spaghetti squash that was on my list) but the things I wanted there was no problem finding.  Well, sort of.

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