$8 for butter?

I can't believe the price of food's gone up so much! Last night when I stopped at Costco to pump gas and pick up a rotisserie chicken for dinner, I decided to check out the prices of their butter. OMG! Can you believe it? It's now $7.99 for a thing of butter that contains 4 one pound (cut up into quarters). And if you want the kind that's not cut up into quarters, just 4 one pound blocks, it costs even more?! Wait, maybe less... actually, I think less for 20 or so cents less. Anyway, fact is... I can't believe butter's costing an arm and a leg. It's finally decided to join the rest of the other gang I guess... you know, gas prices, milk, ice cream, any dairy products?! Who knows?! I remembered when I used to get them at Costco for $4.99. I don't know.. the way things are going these days, I think my $4.99 days are long gone?! Oh yes, don't get me started on bread. It's ridiculous. Thank goodness I don't really eat bread, but then I guess it does kind of suck that my mother-in-law and everyone else around me eats bread... so we still have to buy some every now and then. Eww, I know. Ahhhh!

Anyway, enough said. Just sucks, that's all. I can't experiment as much as I'd like to w/ my crazy baking recipes, just cuz at the moment I'm kind of broke and can't afford to waste any ingredients. Ahh, I know... oh well.

Alright, here's what I've eaten/plan to eat for the rest of the day:

BREAKFAST:
- rotisserie chicken (250 cal)
- 1 fried egg (75 cal)

LUNCH:
- 1/2 cup brown rice (110 cal)
- 2 oz salmon (90 cal)
- steamed broccoli (30 cal)
- 1-1/2 pieces of teriyaki chicken from Whole Foods w/ a bit of brown rice (450 cal)

DINNER:
- spaghetti w/ turkey meat pasta sauce, two slices of buttered bread, salad (600 cal)

EVENING SNACK:
- 1/3 chocolate banana cupcake w/ buttercream frosting (130 cal)

TOTAL CALORIES: 2085

Update later. >> UPDATE: ate too much.. oh well.