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Being Practical

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Some days are all about just getting things done and being practical.

Let me count the ways…

Being Practical #1: Grocery shopping and stocking up on some produce for the weekend

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Being Practical #2: Grapes were on sale for $1.99/pound. Sure beats the $3.99/pound they were earlier in the week when I had picked up a bunch only to realize at checkout they were going to be $9.76. So I told the cashier to forget about those, but she said they’re going on sale tomorrow. So on Friday, I scored on cheap grapes. That’s practical.

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Being Practical #3. Red-tape sale bananas. 29 cents/pound. I have no idea what was “wrong” with these but I am all about sale and reduced-price fruit.

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Being Practical #4: Stocking up on sale pears

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Being Practical #6: Replenishing my eat-one-a-day tomato habit stash

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Being Practical #7: Eating this big green salad with Vegan Slaw Dressing

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And adding Mango Ginger Maple Tofu to it

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I think my 5 Minute No Bake Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies taste just as good and are a fraction of the price.

That’s being practical. Use dried cherries rather than raisins if you want to keep things really mimic an 18 Rabbits bar.

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  1. Do you consider yourself a Practical Person?

  2. What do you do that’s Practical, even though it may be more fun to be… not practical?

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Are you Practical? In what ways? Or what ways do you break the rules and buck being practical? Trust me, life is a balance of doing that, too! Sometimes I throw practical-ness to the wind and say…screw it and live in the moment!