I’M WHAT NOW?

I’m Spending $700 On Oatmeal

Tax time is the right time to look at your expenses and say “WTF?”

Photo by Leti Kugler on Unsplash

It all started with the eggs.

I have a high school friend on Facebook who at one point was eating 20 eggs a day while she jumped over buildings at CrossFit and documented the whole thing just to make the rest of us feel like lazy slobs.

Well, it didn’t work. I still have no desire to go to the gym and smell bad around other people who also smell bad.

But it did make me think more about protein. I’m bombarded with emails and newsletters about how people “my age” really need to look at how much protein they’re eating every day so their muscles don’t turn into tissue paper.

I don’t particularly like meat, and I can only eat so many eggs — especially at $6 a dozen, which makes me nostalgic for the rooster that used to chase me around the farm until I started carrying a plastic baseball bat.

So where am I supposed to get protein at eight o’clock in the morning?

Somehow Oats Overnight caught my eye (probably also on that evil empire, Facebook) and I decided to try it. It was easy to make, it had tons of protein and…