Lightening Online

Farmboy and I are homebodies at heart which can present a challenge when you’re away from home.  We realised early on that we preferred the camper trailer to staying in motels or cabins because it felt more like “home”.  The same can be said of the caravan.

I had my first “go” at caravan grocery shopping today.  I found it quite hard to do.  I’m used to having a well-stocked pantry and freezer and shopping to top them up rather than shopping for everything I need at once.  It’s hard not to “over shop” too as I usually do stock up shops when I’m in a bigger supermarket.  Not to mention the fact that it’s a supermarket I’m not familiar with.

So, after the stress of trying to buy food to feed the family, I really felt like I wanted to go “home”.  Not, “home to the farm” but “home to the caravan”.  It’s nice to have a place while we’re away that really feels “homely”.  A place to escape to when the world gets “too much”.

As for grocery shopping, I don’t think I’m going to be able to do a “weekly” shop.  I just don’t have the room.  I spent about $85 today.  That bought 3 meals of meat plus some meat for lunches.  I guess about half a week’s worth of food.  I’m pretty happy with that.  While the meats I bought weren’t as expensive as we might sometimes have, and I have brought a few tinned things from home, it was a good start and an indication that $250 should be sufficient for a week’s worth of food.  At least, in most places.

We were going to buy pizza on Friday night but the place that was advertised as delivering had decided they wouldn’t deliver to the caravan park after all.  Our car was still hooked on as we were in a drive through site and only staying overnight.  So, we cooked a tuna mornay from ingredients I had in the cupboard and thought we’d buy take away tonight (Saturday night) instead.  By the time I’d done the supermarket shopping, all I wanted to do was come “home” and couldn’t be bothered working out what take away we might have.  I’d bought the ingredients for hamburgers so we made those instead.

It’s funny really.  One of the things I was looking forward to on this trip was having access to take away.  Yet, the 2 times we’ve thought about having it, it’s felt easier to cook something in the caravan rather than find a place, make a decision and get the take away.  Perhaps take away isn’t so convenient after all?  Or perhaps the novelty of caravan cooking will wear off and we’ll end up being more susceptible to the “take away bug” as time goes on. 

I can actually see us tending towards take away type foods for lunch more as we’re out and about during the day.  When it’s dark, all you want to do is get “home” and stay there.