Entry FeedToday I decided to try a tex-mex slow cooking chicken recipe for dinner. I am pretty much guaranteed to be the only one in my house to enjoy it, but husband will eat it anyway.
It is chicken, crushed tomatoes, red kidney beans, black beans, zucchini, red pepper, corn and chili powder. Pretty simple to throw all together and let cook.
I needed black beans, zucchini and red pepper. I decided to walk to get Son Two from his morning JK as it is so nice out. I grabbed a $10 bill and daughter.
I coulda-shoulda gone to No Frills to get everything, but I wasn't sure that I would have enough time.
Daughter insisted that I get hot dog buns. I am assuming that after she and her brothers turn up their noses at my dinner, Husband will make the kids hot dogs. She also asked for Rolos as a treat. I was down to $5.30 cents entering the produce store.
This is when I realized I should have brought my wallet. I picked a zucchini, a red pepper, and a can of black beans. Then I watched as she rung up the red pepper - $2.85!!!! for one pepper.
Normally I do large, bulk, grocery shops, so I don't actually pay much attention to the price of individual items. Once I watched as produce was rung up and I returned the $6 grapes, but $3 for a red pepper? I was in too much of a hurry to argue, and I needed it for my recipe.
When I got home and started preparing dinner, I soon realized why the red pepper was $3 - it was a mutant! I cut it open to reveal light green peppers inside; globs of them. It was sort of gross and really weird. I have seen little ones before when cutting open a pepper, but nothing like this.
I shouldn't have picked this pepper in the first place - it had a tail.
That pepper is really freaky!! I don't think I would have eaten it. You should submit it for testing.