If I bought kale, garlic and spinach, would they devour that too?

There ought to be a law that prohibits parents from entering a grocery store with a teenager.

Or at least if you do, an alarm would sound and bells would ring while a deep, loud voices booms, “Crazy mom entering grocery store with a teenager.”

Blake and I recently went to the grocery store to get some things for his trip this weekend to Seattle to play basketball. First stop was getting a new blender to make smoothies for breakfast. Next, he had to take off the lids of several different brands of deodorant and smell them before deciding on his brand.

 As I went to get staples, - milk, bread, cheese, fruit, veggies, OJ, yogurt, - he would disappear and then reappear. It wasn’t until we got to the checkout line, I noticed the Gatorade, Tiger’s Milk bars, pretzels and a few other items he had gotten. Both Kate and Blake are pretty good at choosing healthy items - we do have the potato chips and some junk food but both are good about selecting healthy items.  

Several bags of food later, Blake and I were unpacking the food in our kitchen. All I could think, didn’t I just go grocery shopping? Where is all the food?

I am looking for an inventor who can create a devise that every time a cupboard or the refrigerator opens and one of my teens takes something out, that it is automatically replaced.

After Blake guzzles another glass of milk, the jug automatically refills itself. If either Kate or Blake eats an apple or orange, another magically takes its place.

I feed them dinner. Make them breakfast and lunch. Yet they seem to eat 24-7.

A bag of Smart Food - gone in less than 24 hours. Hummus with carrots, nuts, nut bars, mangos, strawberries - none of them stand a chance of surviving 24 hours in our house. A teenager's appetite reminds me of locust - devouring every morsel in sight.

Why can’t the refrigerator and the cupboards be like the laundry basket? Just as I have folded the last sock or towel, it seems like the laundry basket automatically fills up again.

Here’s wishing that would happen to my kitchen cupboards. Until then, here’s to many more adventures grocery shopping with the teens.

Now if I can just teach them to sneak more items with chocolate as a main ingredient into the grocery basket, life would be grand.