Free Almonds

I went to target last night in search of lunch food. It has been about 3 weeks of constant PB&Js and I'm sick. My Target experience was a good one (as always), despite the lack of choices when it comes to wrapping paper. You would think with a population as large as ours and the percentage of women running around with babies in their bellies, there would be more choices. I mean is it too much to ask for something with little animals?? ANYWAYS, that’s another story.

I had a coupon and headed straight for the nut aisle for Emerald Almonds, yumm and healthy! Turns out they were on sale. Double savings! But they only had one kind, Dry Roasted Almonds, perfect. That was all I wanted anyways, just plain roasted almonds. I threw two in my cart (the requirements of the coupon).

So of course when I packed my lunch today, these went with it. Well, I couldn’t wait for lunch to break into them. They seemed to be calling my name from inside of my bag across my cubicle where I was hiding them. Around 10:30 I wanted to shut them up, so I peeled off the plastic seal and dug in. Immediately I thought, What’s wrong with these almonds? They look like they had spent too long in the tanning bed like some of the girls I went to high school with .I popped a few in my mouth and began to gag. What the. . . They taste like a mix between the worst ranch dressing in the world and those garlic cheesy scalloped potatoes you make from a box. Yuck. Of-course I go straight to the ingredients (something I normally always check before buying anything, but they are almonds, what other ingredients could there be?). Salt, modified potato starch, sugar, monosodium glutamate, paprika, onion powder, autolyzed yeast extract, garlic powder, natural flavor, modified corn starch, corn syrup solids. Dammit, tricked once again. Apparently dry roasted does not mean what I thought. I guess that's what I get for trying to be frugal.

Who wants to go out for lunch?