Shopping When Hungry

Going to the grocery store when you are hungry is always a bad idea. You'll make impulse purchases, spend too much money and worst of all not be able to decide what to eat for dinner therefore postponing eating time even longer.
Last night Ed and I wandered through Trader Joe's hungry and indecisive. We picked up pre-cooked curry chicken as a fast meal, lentils for a Indian curry sauce, ground beef for meatballs, potstickers for fun, chicken pate for an appetizer, wine, beer and more beer, a salad for lunch and yoghurt becuase its yummy. Then we got home and had to deciede which delicious item to make as fast as possible to quench out hunger.
We chose spaghetti and meatballs as our main course. And becuase we were starving the impulse buy of chicken pate was already on the table. While the water was boiling, the meatballs baking and the frozen homemade sauce was defrosting in the microwave we had a mini feast. Chicken pate, leftover stilton bleu cheese and Espiral Vinho Verde (a portugese slightly sparkling, crisp white wine that has become my new favorite aperitive, thanks mom).
Eating these three appitizers together reminds me how much I LOVE food! We moaned and groaned over the delicious pairing until the oven timer went off and we cleared the table for the main course.
Spaghetti and meatballs made on the fly may not be nearly as elegant but can satisfy a craving just as well. I was craving meat, why? I don't know. But the meatballs in meat sauce made my mouth very happy! My stomache was not quite so happy with me though and wished I had stopped after the first two meatballs due to lack of room after so much pate and cheese.
MMMMM...food is soooooooo good! I Live to Eat! Throw caution and money to the wind and don't go hungry when your shopping. Buy what you want and eat what you please but remember, everything in moderation.