Challenge...OY talk about a challenge. I have challengers remorse! As soon as I say "no buy", hubby pulls out the wallet, finds the closest parking space and grabs a cart. Hubby thinks I am trying to kill him with spaghetti sauce, wants more applesauce cake, can't fix an oven, and we are over run by plastic silverware, paper plates, bbq sauce and Dove bars! That being said....I went to the grocery store today for fruits and veggies (fresh and frozen). I bought ALL organic fruits and veggies, organic milk and some coconut and almond milk. I bought some fresh spices as some of mine were past their prime and lost their va va voom. I bought about 8 spices, my organic milk and produce and spent $104.00. HOW!?!? FINE, twist my arm, I also bought a bag of potato chips and crystal light. OK STOP ALREADY, it was two bags of potato chips, and they are low sodium, 50% less, thank you very much. Low sodium? Talk about having the fun sucked out of eating potato chips. I must be old now, salt makes me swell up and look like the Michelin Man, only shorter and with junk in the trunk.
OK, enough with the diversion tactics...
I am not giving up....I have already done better in 9 days than hubby did in 4.....LOL. I am still "shopping from the pantry" and did say at the beginning of the challenge that I would be shopping for fresh fruits and veggies. Spices are plant matter/veggies, the potato chips are a veggie, fried in sunflower oil and the crystal light iced tea, well that is just decaf...yes, I am justifying in the hopes that you don't notice the jar of maraschino cherries on the counter I neglected to declare.
Last night we (and by "we" I mean the singular me) were going to cook steak and mashed potatoes with green beans. I LOVE mashed potatoes and will eat them for days, (can you say mashed potato coma?) with corn or green beans, french cut only thank you very much, mixed in. Didn't take me long at all, as we had grilled cheese, pickles and popchips. I do believe (OK...I am damn certain) that two soda's and more than one beer washed them all down. It apparently was not filling enough for Nathan the eating machine, as he ate a huge bowl of cereal at 10 pm. Bad Mom, Bad, Bad, Bad Mom for trying to pass of hot cheese on grilled white buttered bread as a nutritious hot meal.
