There's Food in the House

plllog

7 years ago

There’s food in the house

There’s good food in the house

There’s good homemade food in the house

There’s good homemade food in the house which needs eating

There’s food in the fridge

There’s wholesome food in the fridge

There’s wholesome fresh food in the fridge

There’s wholesome fresh food in the fridge which needs cooking

There’s food in the pantry

There’s interesting food in the pantry

There’re interesting ingredients among the food in the pantry

There’re interesting ingredients among the food in the pantry which need using

There's food in the house

Why not eat the food in the house?

Why not eat the food in the house instead of ordering in Chinese?

Why not eat the food in the house instead of picking up the phone and ordering in Chinese?

I cannot stand it

I cannot stand one more

I cannot stand one more time

I cannot stand washing one more dish one more time

There's hot tasty food in the house and it came in eat-out-of-them-boxes with disposable chopsticks

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CA Kate z9

7 years ago

Plllog: Loved the prose! You captured perfectly how I too frequently feel.

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seagrass_gw Cape Cod
7 years ago
I'd give anything for delivered Chinese food. We can't get anything delivered where we live. Too remote and seasonal. Enjoy!!!
plllog thanked seagrass_gw Cape Cod
writersblock (9b/10a)
7 years ago
We don't have delivery here, either seagrass, but plllog, I know exactly what you mean! I just have to go get it.
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lizbeth-gardener
7 years ago
I'm familiar with that train of thought, only mine is usually I cannot cook one more meal!
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
7 years ago
Chinese take-out is a luxury that those who have it available should enjoy whenever they want without guilt :-) Not only is delivery unavailable in my quite rural location - you can't even get pizza delivered easily - but there is not a decent Chinese restaurant (or even any Chinese restaurant) for miles!! And a half hour ferry ride :-)
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laceyvail 6A, WV
7 years ago
Ditto what gardengal said. Except you can't get anything at all delivered. And the nearest half way decent restaurant is a 40 minute drive away.
2ManyDiversions
7 years ago
I'd also give anything for good Chinese delivered, or take-out! Enjoy plllog, you lucky lady! One of our local Chinese restaurants was closed briefly for catching and using duck from the local river which runs through town (not even supposed to eat fish from it). Another was just awful. Ordered a Chinese salad (which would be what?) and it had chunks of whitish head lettuce and 2 (I counted) pieces of sliced of carrot. The 'special' dressing was ranch. Local Thai was good, but has gone the way of the others. I see people on TV eating fresh, tasty-looking Chinese and I'm so envious! We had Arby's last night. Bleccchhh!
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
7 years ago
I dunno what the deal is. My tiny little local town (which is a bit of a foody destination place) has an excellent Japanese restaurant and sushi bar, several good Thai places, a couple of Pho restaurants and even a good Indian place. Why there is no Chinese restaurant - good or bad - anywhere close by is a bit of a mystery.
writersblock (9b/10a)
7 years ago
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I feel better knowing that other people also don't have access to good Chinese food. We have several local restaurants but they all use that horrid minute-ricey version of fried rice these days and the rest of the menu is equivalent.
annie1992
7 years ago
LOL, there is also food in my house. Most of it came from the garden because it's that time of year.

However, like others, I'm saved from food delivery because there just is none available, not even a pizza. We live too far away from everything.

So, for people like me, there's peanut butter. Or leftovers, which we had tonight. Unfortunately you first have to cook something before there are leftovers...

Chinese sounds really good now, and I sure can't get take out at 1 am!

Annie
artemis_ma
7 years ago
Yep, no food deliveries here. Too far from the pizza place, and frankly nothing Chinese within an hour or so is remotely edible anyway.

One flaw about moving rural!
jakkom
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
LOL - I LOVE it!

If it weren't for DH I'd go out 3x more often than we do now (and we already eat out often, usually 2-4x per week).

I tell people, "Look, I was running a household when I was 11 yrs old. 57 years is a really long time, and I am SO over cooking 2x/day!"

Tomorrow we're going to a new Brazilian place and the day after that one of our favorite Italian/Greek restaurants.......I can hardly wait.
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