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It's 29 degrees out.
I'm ignoring Sam and his incessant pawing and ripping at the door to go outside.

Allie Buys Discounted Fruit

I discovered the discount fruit rack at Kroger about a year ago.
On this rack, as you would've guessed, is discounted fruit. Every bundle you find is 99 cents.

Most of the time, it's bananas teetering on the edge of decomposition. One time, there was a bunch of bags of avocados. They were so squishy, they were pretty much just guacamole encased in skin.

A lot of the time, too, they'll have grab bags of old regular fruit. Like an orange, a pear and an apple. Or three apples. Or when Mike points out the bag to you with four apples in it when you were about to buy the one with three in it, you get the one with four.

I started buying discounted fruit because I always feel, like, guilty if I don't get around to eating it. This is why I only buy 5 bananas at a time, and why every winter I debate whether to buy a whole bag of clementines because even if I eat 1-2 PER DAY, some will get moldy by the time I get to them.

I'm also always reluctant to buy a whole bag of oranges or apples because what if I don't feel like eating them, you know, like, ever? And then you forget about them in the bottom drawer of your fridge and end of throwing them out when you actually do find them.

Like right now, I know I have anywhere between four and six grapefruits that I know are too far gone. I could go get them out and throw them away now, but instead I'm going to let future Allie deal with that.

Buying discount fruit makes me feel less guilty because I didn't spend much money on it, and if I have to throw it out, it was probably bruised to begin with. No biggy.

But here's what I'm finding out: I actually eat all the discounted fruit I buy.
First, it's because they only come in sets of like 3-4, it's a perfect amount for a week, so I don't have to figure out how to store 10 pounds of produce because it was "such a good deal."
Potato sales.
Yeah.
You know what I'm talking about.

Secondly, they take all the guess work of having to pick out fruit.
Mike gets so upset with me because I'll spend "hours massaging" (his words, not mine) avocados before deciding on one.
But if they're already bagged up, I just pick the ones that look the least gross and roll with it.

Thirdly, they give me a variety of apples! Red delicious, Gala, Fuji, Yellow Delicious, Granny Smith. All in one week. And I didn't even have to think about it OR think about which ones were on sale.
Sometimes, Honeycrisp apples (my fav) are like $3.49 a pound, which is ridiculous.
Today, I found one in my lunch that cost about 20 cents (yes! they had stuck FIVE apples in a bag this week).
It was the highlight of my day.

What I'm trying to tell you is that Kroger rox. And if they ever EVER take away that discount fruit rack, words will be had.

Words.

Sig-oths,
TWS