Just got off the phone with the contractor. The fancy cut-out tiles that I ordered for the new floor are expected to be delivered on March 30. That will be the middle of the eleventh week of the kitchen being torn up due to water damage before anything happens.
I am here to tell you that you can, without an oven and stove (with your refrigerator shoved over to the other side of the kitchen blocking your cabinets but I’m just complaining now):
A. Eat within your regular grocery budget
B. Not eat out more than you usually do (ok, maybe just a wee more)
C. Eat healthy (at least, as healthy as you want to eat, your kitchen doesn’t actually effect that)
Food is a little more boring, I’ll give you that. Without an easy way to make potatoes or rice our carbs often come in the form of that old stand-bye: bread and butter. But without the butter because I’m trying to watch my weight. So, plain bread. Lots of cans of Campbell’s soup. Lots of chicken salad out of the deli at L&L. Lots of tuna melts (God bless toaster ovens). I don’t like frozen dinners so we’ve had none of those although just as I say that I realize I’m doing a Stouffer’s mac n cheese as a side item tonight.
As someone who absolutely DOES NOT LIKE living in a construction zone, the zone has now become home so all feels normal if inconvenient and the waiting a bit tiresome. No more house projects after this for a while.
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