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FILL: Waste Not

[(Anonymous)]

People think Matt's cupboards are bare because blind people cannot navigate the grocery store. They're wrong. There's no mistaking the smell of a ripe cantaloupe or the feeling of an artichoke beneath your fingers. Chicken legs do not feel like chicken wings, and if you do not feel like considering the subtle differences between a pork chop and a sirloin steak, you can buy it from the meat counter instead. For the rest there are apps that read labels -- not always perfectly, not always when the font is strange or the surface is curved, but well enough find the things you're looking for. You learn not to be picky about whether your peanut butter is chunky or smooth.

The difference between Matt and everyone else is that Matt only buys what he needs. Oatmeal is the best breakfast; a big cardboard canister of Quaker oats will last at least a month, longer if you make it stretch. Good weeks, you can make it with actual milk; bad weeks, you eat it with water and you don't complain. If you buy cereal, you grab the biggest box from the bottom shelf. It tastes like sugar and chemicals, the flavors of childhood. For dinner, you eat an egg or two. You fill up omelets with vegetable scraps and leftover meat from Sunday night dinner. Maybe you can sprinkle some cheese on top; maybe you can add the green tops from the scallions. No point letting those go to waste.

Matt remembers the dread in the pit of his stomach when his father, flush with cash after a big fight, came home with steaks. He wanted to say the meat wouldn't stretch, but the words died in his throat when he saw the smile on his father's face. Instead he pretended not to be hungry. He put half his steak back in the fridge; his father would need something good to eat before practice the next day.

There's money now to buy whatever he wants to eat, but thrift feels safe -- the only thing left from when his father was still alive, a relic of his childhood intact even though there are silk sheets on the bed and an Ivy League diploma on the wall. He scrapes his knife inside the mustard jar until there's not a drop left, eats the bananas even if he let them get too brown, never buys another container or rice till the last one is completely empty.

There are so many sins on his soul. Waste won't be one of them.

Re: FILL: Waste Not

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gosh, that ending, it just made me tear up. T___T