For a Brief Moment, I Thought BJ's Warehouse Store Had an Epiphany

I did some shopping there, and happened to push my cart (loaded with 40 lb. cat litter boxes) past a freezer section facing out in to the center of the store--it was full of boxes of what I thought would make terrific Paleo convenience foods: bacon-wrapped scallops, bacon-wrapped chicken wings, and bacon-wrapped beef short ribs.

My cart screeched to a halt, and in I went to investigate further. After perusing the ingredients list, I determined the bacon was the largest culprit in the scallops box, and the beef and chicken wing sources, along with the bacon, were culprits in the other offerings.

Releasing the parking brake from my cart, I signaled and moved back out into the traffic flow toward the checkout. So close, and yet so far...had someone done this with ORGANIC, WILD, and/or PASTURED sources of meat, along with ORGANIC, NITRATE-FREE BACON, this would've been an altogether different post.

I suppose the scallops would be alright if you removed THEIR bacon and added your own, but I'm not an expert on scallops.

So maybe you've noticed I do a lot of shopping with loads of cat litter in my cart--why do I do this? Three reasons:

1. Exercise--there's no lawn to mow, and we have no snow this year

2. I have cats

3. My trial membership at BJ's (which sells the cheapest-price-per-pound cat litter) runs out at the end of February, so I'm stockpiling until I get another trial membership chance--this "trial membership" thing has been going on seasonally for about 5 years now. Why buy the cow when you're only interested in the milk and maybe the internal organs (figuratively speaking)?