Recent thoughts and rants

I don't think I have any pictures to go with this, this is just random things that I've been thinking of recently.

If there's 1 thing I've learned from Walden Pond it is this. You can never live a cheaper, fuller and healthier life than if you do it yourself. This leads me to believe that I can be healither and cheaper by cooking myself. But this is not always the case. I can go to the store and spend $1 on carrots, $1.50 on celery, $1 on onions, $6 on a chicken, I'll sy that I spend about $.50 on spices, a buck or 2 on noodles and I have 4 to 6 servings of chicken noodle soup for a total of $12. But I can buy a can of it for $2. So either I make it for $2/ serving or I can buy it for the same cost. True, my soup tastes better than the can. However, it also takes 2 min to make it from a can and about 10-12 hours to make it from scratch. So there's some give and take both ways. My soup may be healthier but the Campbells can sit on the shelf for a year, available for me anytime.

I realize that Thoreau would say I was silly. By raising my own chickens and using veggies from my own farm I could create gallons of chicken noodle soup for pennies or less. And on a more obvious note he would probably say that his book was talking about a quality of life, not cheap chicken noodle soup. But hopefully you see where I'm coming from with this.

Now that I've established my thought process I can jump to the point. As much as I hate the idea of putting all the additives from processed food into my body. As much as I can use my skills to cook just about anything. The fact is, it's difficult for me to pass up things like Hot Pockets $2 each, Totinos Pizza for a dollar each or chicken pot pies for $.60 each.