What's for Lunch?

Thanks to my big Sams Club order, my pantry, freezer and fridge are stocked full of good stuff. So I figured I have no excuse to pack my lunch and this morning, I selected a Jimmy Dean D-lite, 100 calorie snack pack, yogurt and Combos (I'm a grazer).

It's 11am and I already ate everything. Plus two doughnuts from birthday break. And am convincing myself that I must have Chinese food NOW.

*Sigh*

This is why I should NOT bring my lunch to work. And is probably why I've gained back almost ten pounds.

I could exercise, as my oldest brother is always pointing out, but I'd rather complain about the weight sneaking back on and my body flaws than actually do anything about them. It's so much less painful this way. Plus I figured if I wait long enough, they'll come out with a pill that will fix it all for me.

A Love Story - Sams Club

I discovered something that sends my heart a'fluttering.

Click and Pull from Sams Club. 

Yes, seriously. 

As my kids get older and my family continues to grow, grocery shopping has become an exhausting experience. I went only once a week, but it killed a good three hours of one of my valuable days off. And when it got to the point where other customers were standing around my checkout lane to see what my grand total was going to be, I had to figure out how to put a stop to it. 

Then my company offered us a discounted Sams Club membership, which I purchase online on Easter Sunday. I was surfing around the site to get an idea of what they offered when I heard trumpets herald (here I have to confess I just spent five minutes trying to figure out the word I wanted to use because I thought it was "harold" and apparently I was wrong). 

Click. Period. And. Period. Pull. 

You click, they pull. Tada!

I started out with a small order just to test them out. My favorite part about it was that I wasn't stuck in the aisle panicking because I couldn't figure out if the unit price was less than what I typically pay. I was able to take my time and make educated decisions about what I put in my virtual cart. The next day, I pulled up to the loading area of Sams, ran in to pay for my order and someone loaded it in the car for me. Oh, and there's NO CHARGE for this!!

*happy sigh*

Just this past Tuesday, I went all out. I'm talking a $500 order of cleaning supplies, bath and beauty products and of course food. I placed the order after 9PM on Monday, told them I wanted to pick it up at 4:30 and hit "submit". Then I went to bed while the little magical fairies went to work. My only issue was that I didn't get my email saying the order was ready for pick-up like I did the first time. But I called before I left the office to confirm that it was ready and this time I told them they could go ahead and pull my carts from the cooler and freezer (last time I had to wait for them to do it after I got there). When I got to the store, my order was completely ready to go. The dude helping me load my car kept looking at the three carts and my little Mistsubishi Gallant like "are you kidding me?". Why does a women with four kids of her own have a Gallant? Looooong story. You don't want to hear it. Trust me. 

My little minions, I mean kids, were ready to unload the car when I got home. To quote my teenage son, "that's a lotta food". Yes, a teenage boy said that. My heart still skips a beat when I replay the scene over and over in my head. 

I do realize that there are somethings that are cheaper to buy elsewhere - mainly cereal - so I won't completely erase my need to grocery shop, but at least I've drastically cut the time I spent dodging in and out of the aisles to hide from my kids as they tried to hunt me down with even more crap to put in my cart. And that is just priceless!