There are questions I can answer and questions I cannot, and ‘what’s for dinner’ falls firmly in the second category.
When Charles is away, I eat like a raccoon. Crackers. Cheese. Toast and sliced cheese, not to be confused with grilled cheese, toast and tomatoes with tons of pepper, and cereal as a last resort. Whatever doesn’t require turning on the stove. For the last while, I’ve relied on this man to prepare meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner. He makes delicious meals, and I love that about him.
We also own four forks, not four sets of forks, but four forks in total, one of which I used yesterday while eating a sliced up tomatoe. How long have we been living like this, and where did the forks all go?
Maybe this is just our life now. Four forks. And honestly? Four forks are fine. When we have large family meals, it is plastic utensils all the way. What is the carbon footprint of plastic utensils?
Which brings me to the fact that after a cursory glance, we have over 37 coffee cups/mugs, but I only rotate between 2 or 3, and one of them I might use for tea. Why are there so many?
We own several pots, but we live like we only own one pot. We accidentally became minimalists by just… using one pot. We didn’t Marie Kondo our kitchen – we just stopped reaching for things we don’t need. Are we sustainable by accident?
Can I say maybe our kitchen has downsized? We’ve streamlined our fork operations to a lean team of four. We’ve identified our key performing pot and maximized its potential. Our coffee mug portfolio remains robust at thirty-seven units, though we’ve strategically chosen to only rotate between two or three for daily operations.
I’ve pivoted away from cooking to focus on my core competencies (crackers, cheese, creative uses of toast). We’re operating at maximum efficiency with minimal resources, and by ‘efficiency’ I mean Charles does everything while I pretend I can’t find the stove. What’s for dinner? That’s above my pay grade now.
Below: Our view one day in 2025. No dilemma about forks, coffee mugs, pots, crackers and cheese, and we stood in awe together over the scenery while drinking frothy espresso.
