Devolving back to the USA

So i did it. Number three on my Do not do while in Spain-list: I broke down and bought a jar of peanut butter. After holding off for over 3 months- It has happened. I thought reeses peanut butter cups that mom brought were holding me back... apparently not.

This is how it went down: I had some time to kill before tutoring today. I decided to browse the natural market next to the boys' appartment building. I spotted tasty-looking granola bars, tahini sauce that would be great for my hummus recipe, and some whole wheat pasta... but nothing was really worth getting until "pure de cacahuete" jumped off the shelf and into my hand. I was skeptical since there was no price sticker, and I was in a default-fancy natural market which means somewhere around 7euros or about $10. I looked at my watch and I still had 5 minutes to spare and did not want to spend 65 minutes playing swords with roudy little boys. So, I walked up to the counter to laugh at how ridiculously expensive the pure de cacahuete would be. She rang it up and there was no price. So, she pushed some buttons (aka Im pretty sure entered in "default price for moderately inexpensive item") and told me it would be 2.7euro. I think I heard the price started with a "2" and I was already out the door with the peanut butter in my bag.

Lesson learned: I cannot be overwhelmed with peanut butter sales and think clearly about my long term goals at the same time. Oh well- what's done is done and now my breakfast has devolved into complete americanism. Ive done away with corn flakes for Special K Redberry and now my cute little jars of apricot marmalade will be replaced with PEANUT BUTTER.

On that note: Im pretty excited for breakfast tomorrow morning.

Side note: I just re-read the label to check it out and noticed "Product of Spain." I'm a little scared now...