Still gluten free!

Tuesday

The secret to blogging will be to move on if we miss a day, and not try to catch up.  AJ bought lots of groceries today.  I know there were at least three stores involved. Not sure what he spent but the food he made was super tasty.

Krisitn ate
egg
3 cups coffee
leftover chicken wild rice soup
crackers
carrots
diet coke
more crackers
burger patty with cheese stuffed inside
carmelized onions
beets
fries
fudgesicle
red wine

Kristin Spent
$o.oo

Big Day

"Ice out" is always a celebration at our house, even when it's more than five weeks late. To top it off, a Christmas leftover is on the menu, another big deal, especially when it was a lovely gift from two of the boys. Amanda kindly patted us on the head, said you kids have fun and sent us on our way. If we had tea, we could have a tea party on the ceiling!

Kristin ate
3 cups coffee with cream
Scrambled eggs with veg and cream cheese
2 slices bacon
Corn chips and cheese
1/2 cup almonds
Chunk of cheddar
2 diet cokes
Bubble water
3 pieces pizza
Fudgesicle
Sugar free jello and whipped cream
Red wine

Kristin spent $0

Aj ate

Scrambled eggs with veggies cream cheese
3 coffee with cream
2 bacon
1/4 cup trail mix
Corn chips with cheese and salsa and sour cream
Vitamin water
4 pieces pizza
Red wine
Diet root beer

Aj spent
$30.16. Target. Shampoo, deodorant, milk, pudding, raisins, applesauce
Almonds, vitamin water

Loony

Today in my class we had beach day. The kids bought towels for "laying out."  we made sandcastles with blocks and wrote poems and painted pictures.  We did it just for fun.  It felt like we needed to step out of the routine a little bit.  Also, when we had a snow day back in late fall, the snow started falling and didn't really stop until we started planning beach day.  It seemed possible, but a little loony, I'll admit, that our classes snow day made winter start.  Was it really so loony to think that a beach day might have the same effect?  Maybe not.  It turned 70 degrees that same day.

Later, delighted with a visit from Auntie Karen who was down to see her leg doctor and watch the ice go off the lake, we heard and saw the biggest, loudest loons ever.  EVER!  I went outside to take pictures because to my naked eye the loon looked like the size of a large deer.  The camera didn't do it justice, but it was huge.  And loud. Amanda and Thomas took a long canoe ride and saw lots of loons close up.   They looned away all night long, too.

What with our voracious snacking (see below) and Karen's cruel refusal to spend the night in a gluten-free household (just kidding everybody- she's still avoiding stairs and kindly hoped to leave me free to work on my stuff), we didn't get around to eating dinner until around 9:00.  But it was delicious.  Thanks to AJ for cooking (again)

Kristin ate:
scrambled eggs with mushrooms and tomatos
3 cups coffee
sugar free applesauce
gluten-free frozen coconut milk and mango treat
beef tritini
carrots
diet coke
almonds
3 handfuls of crackers
a piece of colby
2 more diet cokes
latte
(I was sooooo sleepy!)
2 amylus chicken sausages
sweet potato fries
brocolli
healthy choice fudgesicle
2 pieces extra dark chocolate

Kristin Spent
$10.19 Nook Book  (Lord Peter Views the Body)

AJ ate
scrambled eggs with mushrooms and tomatoes
2 cups of coffee with cream
diet rootbeer
15 carrots
4 domino sized pieces of cheese
1/2 cup trail mix
burger tritini
latte
sausage
brocolli
sweet potato fries
2 squares chocolate

AJ spent
$0.00
but yesterday neglected to mention a 32 oz diet coke from SA $.75

St Patricks day deliciousness

Long, long day with delicious interludes

Today AJ packed me the best lunch, I guess.  I got the last of the beef tritini, which is a layered spinach, cheese, mushroom and beef business that tasted like lasagne without all of the pesky noodles.  He had a gas station apple.  Dude.  

It was a long day, with the school council meeting that used to include pizza luce deliciousness but now has some volunteer food to tide us over til we get home for dinner.  At 8:30.  

What made the whole thing was workable was my delicious beef tritini lunch (there probably is no such thing as beef tritini.)  And a side trip to Kawalski's to get a nice little handcrafted salad.  With crab.  And pickled beets.  Oh baby, oh baby.

Kristin ate:

egg

3 cups coffee with cream

beef tritini

diet coke

1/2 cup almonds

a protien bar from Dawn's snack box.  gluten free.

A lovely salad with spinach, beets, crab, chicken, steak, egg, and peppercorn ranch.

diet coke.

cheese and crackers

sugar free chocolate pudding

I might eat a fudgesicle in a little while.  Healthy choice.

Kristin spent-

$11.48  2 salads, 2 cokes from Kowalski's.

Long day little lunch = bad

Did not have much to Pack for lunch today so stopped at about 2:30 and bought an apple. So far not so bad then stopped at fleet farm to buy chicken supplies at about 4:30 still pretty starving and decided to buy some trail mix for a little snack. Once on the road had a small handful but then traffic slowed to 10 mph for about 15 minutes then came to a stand still. Hour and half later got home with and a quarter of the 24 oz bag of Trail mix gone ( 550 cal). So here is what AJ eat today;

Egg
2 cups coffee
20 gf cracker
Ounce of cheese
Bottle of squirt
6 cherry tomatoes
A baby belle cheese
Protein bar
Apple
Cup of trail mix
Burger tritini


Need to cut the junk out so I don't feel like I'm starving. Lesson learned? Tomorrow is another day time to get back on track

AJ spent

0.55 apple
$35 chicken feed
$7 grow light
$5.78 trail mix

Ice is looking pretty mushy tonight may be gone after tomorrow.

More than a month of eating and spending later...

Today my lovely Amy Sonquist sent me a facebook message that said "Remember when you used to blog?  I miss it!"  I miss it too.  I can't explain why we suddenly stopped, except that the week before spring break was gruelingly busy and I lost my groove.  I'm totally a groove person.  It also has to be Kristin initiated, because AJ will happily ride along, but he is not going to be the driver of the writing part.  And even though he is back at work, the mighty hunter has been the menu-driver for the family.
So here's what the blog did for us so far.

We are now totally wheat free and have been for... about 6 weeks, with a tiny scalloped potato and shortcake backslide on Easter.  We are also sugar free, mostly, and mostly junky carb free.  AJ has had the best result health-and-weight wise.  He is off allergy medicine, has no itchy skin, no tummy trouble, or achy bones.  Twelve pounds down.  This is the first time EVER AJ has in ANY WAY moderated his diet.  So, yeah.  Amanda and I are feeling great too.  Her pants slid off today.

The no spending groove continues, although I have relaxed a bit, have bought a bunch of nook books and some itunes songs.  Not so much else though.  Being a double income family again has been nice, but we are trying to be careful.  Planted seeds indoors for the garden.  Still little-to-no eating out.

The writing groove continued for me; probably the real reason I neglected the blog is that I was working hard on my thesis and thank god, have sent chapters 1-6 to my advisor.  Now in the midst of revisions.  I have ordered my cap and gown and will graduate in June.  Boom.  Tonight, not working on anything but this.  AJ is at the boy's Awana's musical, and I hope is filming it.   I got home late from my afterschool job and decided to stay in the chair, watch the sopranos, and ...yeah.  That's about enough.

Here's what I ate:
egg
3 cups coffee with cream
1/2 cup almonds
green salad
tater tot hot dish (homemade mushroom soup)
diet coke
diet rootbeer
a delicious beef, spinach and cheese casserole
healthy choice fudgesicle

I spent
$0.00

I'm hoping AJ will post after he's done at church.

Conflictedli

So AJ has embraced the wheat free life style.  He has been to Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Cub, Costco and Linden Hills Coop looking for ingredients like coconut oil, xanthum gum and shiritaki noodles.  He made a chocolate pie (that might as well be a coconut chocolate pie) from the wheat belly cookbook that was delicious, but coconutty, which I am trying to learn to love  The problem is that each portion of the pie is 438 calories.  I mean, come on!  That's quite a piece of pie.  There are no ingredients that are supposed to cause a glycemic spike, and no carbs that aren't nuts, but geez!  That's a lot of calories!  Tonight I decided to leave the pie to AJ and just have my regular 100 calorie fudgesicle.
I'm conflicted.  It's hard for me to believe that a 400 calorie piece of pie can really be ok to eat.  I'm pretty sure the no wheat thing is a good idea, but wondering why no one is losing any weight.  Wouldn't it be better to skip the xanthum gum and cococut flour and just eat delicious meat and vegetables?

Kristin Ate
irish cheese ( 3 small slices_
handful almonds
3 coffees with cream
salad with pickles, olives, salami, celery
2 diet cokes
2 leek and morel cheese pieces
handful almonds
celery with peanut butter
corned beef
cabbage
1 tiny potato
asparagus
carrots
red wine

Kristin Spent 
$0.00

AJ ate

1/2 grapefruit
slice of German pancake
celery
olives pickles
2 slices almond crust pizza ( That finishes it off)
32 oz diet coke
piece of cheese
corned beef
cabbage
small piece of potato
carrots
asparagus
red wine
slice  of choc cream pie

AJ Spent
$0.75 diet coke
$11.28 small bags of xyilitol, coffee, xanthum gum, coconut flour

Meat and Vegetables

It's the day after St. Patrick's, but as a non irish family, we feel obligated to celebrate out of respect.  No wheat-based green beer this year-  We stuck to baily's irish cream.

Weekend News

The best thing about Friday night pizza is the leftovers it provides to enhance my Saturday eggs!  We also went mall walking and to trader joes, whole foods and cub and costco looking for the magic ingredients that will let us eat low carb, wheat free bread and pizza crust. And chocolate pie.  My thinking is that those things are a big distraction and we need to eat meat and vegetables, and that's it.  AJ agrees with me, and then bakes a wheat free chocolate pie to seal the bargain.  So far, little to no weight has been lost.  Aj has lost a solid 5 pounds

Saturday Kristin Ate
scrambled eggs with carmelized onions and mushrooms
3 cups coffee with cream
cottage cheese
carrots
celery
diet coke
handful raw almonds
tuna with egg and mayo
fudgesicle

Saturday Kristin Spent
$10.00 Nook Book

Sunday Kristin Ate
Wheat Free German Pancake (really good)
St. Joseph's syrup (sugar free)
3 pieces bacon
handful almonds
slice cheese pizza no wheat
diet coke
bubble and squeak (mashed potatoes and cabbage)
boiled cabbage
roasted carrots
1 amy's chicken sausage
salad
no wheat, no sugar chocolate cream pie with whipped cream
bailey's irish cream on ice.  (yum)

Kristin Spent 
$0.00

Saturday AJ ate

scrambled eggs with carmelized onions and mushrooms

3 cups coffee with cream

mixed berries with cream

2 slices almond crust pizza

tuna with egg and mayo

1/4 almonds

Saturday AJ spent

$21 Sheets for amanda's bed JCP credit

$28.44 Trader Joes  liq stevia, shamrock plant, almonds, coconut oil, coconut milk, can of coconut milk

$16 whole foods 2 bags of shihtoki noodles, can of zenia, organic coconut, St josephs syrup

Sunday AJ ate
3 strips bacon
1/2 grapefruit
german pancake, wheat free st joseph's syrup
3 cups coffee
slice of pizza with goat cheese and onions
Bailey's on ice
diet coke
handfull almonds
amy's sausage 1 1/2
2 servings bubble and squeak
roasted carrots
salad
chocolate pie, wheat free
small coffee

Sunday AJ Spent
$12.38 Cub for 2 cans coconut milk
yogurt
green pepper
tomatoes

Another Try at Pizza

In our quest for better health, and with the promise that extra weight would just, you know, fall off suddenly, we have embraced the Wheat Belly lifestyle.  Also, it's a great way to save money.  No donuts, no bagels, no way to eat out much,
Well, last week AJ made the wheat belly pizza, which was pretty tasty, but not exactly pizza.  Amanda almost cried.  There was a bunch of mushy cauliflower under the pizza toppings.  Kind of like expecting pizza and getting ...I don't even know how to describe it.  It's just that we had gotten used to such wonderful pizza.  Sigh.
So  tonight, I stopped at Barnes and Noble and bought the Wheat Belly Cookbook, which was attractive and full of really wonderful sounding recipes, two for pizza crust.  We chose the one with yeast, for that "yeasty flavor that some miss." AJ stirred it up, and put it to rise, but as far as we could tell, there was no rising.  He made a double batch out of habit, but we all only at a piece, or a little more.  It was tasty, but like everything else, super nutty.  And very rich.  The crust was like a big nutty cookie.  Trying to avoid the junky carbs, but we may have to break down and go for a pizza crust that is more like, well, pizza crust. And doesn't make me feel like I just ate a big load of nuts.
At least this time Amanda didn't cry.

Kristin Ate
Cheese
almonds
2 coffees with cream
lovely salad with more cheese
handful almonds
more cheese
salad
1 piece pizza with nutty crust that overwhelmed the goat cheese, mushrooms and caramelized onions.
white wine
fudgesicle

Kristin Spend
$45.00 at BN on books, Wheat Belly and a Marzano book about translating research into practice.

Thursday Kristin Ate
Basted egg
2 coffees with cream
stir fry left overs
carrots. lots of carrots
diet coke
burger patty
brocolli
potato chips
diet coke
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$o

Wednesday Kristin Ate
1/2 bowl flax cereal with milk
2 coffees with cream
salad with cheese
avocado
carrots
chicken stir fry with asparagus and ginger
a little fried rice
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

Traditional Anniversary Tummy Ache!

Every since I went into labor on our anniversary and eventually produced Ben Sonquist, 10 lbs, 2 oz., we have set the bar pretty low for anniversary fun.  Always a birthday party to make it festive, and to take away the pressure to have a perfect, romantic and thoughtful anniversary.  So we've enjoyed our anniversaries more than most people, I bet.
This year's tummy ache came courtesy of Benihana, where you can get a whole lot of meat and vegetables, stay wheat free, and even have a moderate amount of starch if you love fried rice.  Which we do.  We did enjoy the complimentary Haagen Daas as well, which netted  way too many carbs for the day, but what the heck.  It's our anniversary!  And Ben's birthday.  So, happy, happy, happy!  Burp.

Kristin Ate
Scrambled Eggs with cheese and mushrooms
3 cups of coffee (including a surprise latte from Kathy Shipp!)
leftover cabbage and sausage
cheese and celery (left over steak was too tough)
diet coke
handful raw almonds
The Teppenyaki Trio (steak, chicken, shrimp)
fried rice
salad
clear soup
zucchini
onions formerly in the shape of a volcano
a scoop of vanilla haagen das
green tea
red wine

Kristin Spent
$ 39.00 (Two birthday presents)
$ 126.02  (Benihana for 3.)

AJ eat
Scrambled Eggs with cheese and mushrooms

cheese, celery and steak

2 coffee with cream

diet coke

Tuni Hibachi fried rice salad clear soup zucchini and mushrooms

choc ice cream

AJ spent

13.14 wine

4.24 flowers

Note skinniness!

Party Food!

Saturday steak

Fancy anniversary eggs

Dreaming of Benihana

We've been eating such amazing food.  Really.  I don't use that word lightly.  But the eggplant casserole.  The tender steak.  The flavorful asparagus.  The succulent cabbage.  It's hard to complain about missing a little starch, a little bread, a pizza crust that is not made of cauliflower. #mushy.

Still, tomorrow we go to Benihana, to celebrate our anniversary and Ben's birthday.  I can't wait to eat that rice.  Oh baby.  I'm going to have shrimp, scallops, and fillet, not the regular steak.  I won't regret the food OR spending the money.  I am dreaming of Benihana, and my dreams come true tomorrow.


Kristin Ate
basted egg, right out of the pan.  (it was not a yard egg, and I could tell)
2 cups of coffee with cream
salad with steak, great veggies, 1/2 avocado and delicious cheeses
1/2 cup almonds
more almonds
diet coke
amy's chicken gouda sausage and cabbage
(it was cut up, I probably ate 2 sausages total)
cottage cheese
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

AJ eat

basted egg on gf bread

2 cups of coffee with cream

 steak, veggies, 1/2 avocado and delicious cheeses

power bar

Amy's chicken Gouda sausage and cabbage

cottage cheese

yogurt with choc yogurt sauce

almonds

coke

Weekend News

How does it happen that we don't post every day?  It's one of my favorite things to do, and I think it really helps us to write down what we eat and spend.  Well, on Friday I slept in my chair until I went to bed at 9:10.  Saturday was a big day; studying, writing, shopping, and a fundraiser in uptown.  Was that ever fun!  The Emerson school fifth graders are getting ready to go to Puerto Rico, and had a sweet silent auction with free wine and food.  It was a treat to see Amy, Ben, Ted, Stephanie and all of their boys.  My girl looked super-beautiful.  We bid on lots of stuff but we only won one thing- a gift card for Common Roots.  We paid less than it was worth.  I bid on way too many things, and it scared me a ltttle bit.  If I had won everything, that would have cost me about a hundred bucks.  Naughty, but for a good cause.  As it was, some lady swooped in and outbid me by a buck on all but one item.  What a cheapskate.  If I had known, I woulda done the same thing to her, and then I coulda had my bowling night at Elsie's and my nesting Russian doll.  Oh well.  It's for the best.

Friday

Kristin Ate
flax cereal with milk, stevia and cinnamon (holy cow!  yummy!)
2 cups coffee
eggplant casserole
carrots
cauliflower crust pizza (crust ick, the rest mushy)
fudgesicle
lots of almonds
red wine

Kristin Spent
$0.00

AJ eat
2 slices gf toast
3 cups coffee with cream
power bar
fuze
chicken breast
cashews
almonds
dark choc yogurt pudding
glass of wine

carrots

cauliflower crust pizza 

fudgesicle

lots of almonds

red wine

Saturday

Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee
bacon
eggs
tomato
spinach
tuna bowl (tuna with mayo and veg, heated, with cheese)
diet coke
almonds
7 carrots
3 cheddar cheese
fudgesicle
red wine

Kristin Spent
$20.00 gift card common roots (fundraiser)

Sunday

Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee
eggplant casserole with an added egg
almonds- 1/2 cup
diet coke
steak
asparagus
salad
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

eggplant and accidental agave

So a lovely friend brought some almond-based gluten free cupcakes for me, Amanda and Adam.  She said they were almond flour, chocoate, agave, dairy free, etc.  I ate it right up, and then I thought, oh, agave.  That's sugar.  I guess I was thinking "aloe." Which my dad used to drink.  But it was an accident, and a tiny but exceedingly delicious cupcake.  With no wheat.  So, yeah.
For dinner, AJ made the three-cheese eggplant casserole from the wheat-belly cookbook.  Oh em gee.
It was really good.  I mean really.

Kristin Ate
scrambled egg with spinach and cottage cheese
2 coffees with cream
emergen- c
beef and cabbage
carrots
3 handfuls of almonds
diet coke
three cheese eggplant casserole
brussel's sprouts
avocado
1 square dark chocolate
healthy choice fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$35.some odd cents, Target, 10.00 on balloons and tissue at target (about- all on clearance), notebooks for AJ's pocket, 2 boxes hair dye so we could get the $5.00 gift card.
$2.36  2 diet cokes MacDonald's

AJ ate
egg with spinach and cottage cheese
3 coffees with cream
apple
2 handsfull cashews
3 cheese eggplant casserole
brussel's sprouts
avocado
fudgesicle

AJ spent
$48.89 gas
$200 TCFU Visa
$21.-- costco, eggplant, cream, almonds

Yard Eggs

Last night we were waiting for a couple Dexters to load and flipped over to AJ's cache of episodes of Outdoor Cooking with Jimmy Nix, a guy whose outdoor kitchen is made entirely of cast iron.  Except he says "in-tahr-lee of cayst ahrn."  And pronounces oil "ole."  Jimmy was making a cowboy breakfast. After he put a bunch of ingredients in an oven proof dish ("first, spray it up good with pam.  pssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Thar.") He placed the oven proof dish in a cast iron pot with a lid and a handle and hung it on a "300 degree hook, piled it with hot coals, and settled in to expound.  "Nayxt, we crayck in a couple yahrd aygs.  Mah daughter, she keeps a couple chicken, and she give us a egg ever day.  Ain't nothin' lahk a yahrd ayg,"

After we figured out what he was saying, we got all excited.  We have yard eggs!  Our chickens lay them right in our yard!  Jimmy Nix was right.  Yard eggs are delicious.

Kristin Ate:

1 yard egg, basted

2 cups coffee with cream

green salad

1/2 avocado

olives

cheese

2 handfuls cashews

burger and cabbage

cottage cheese and blackberries

healthy choice fudgesicle

Kristin Spent 

$0.00

AJ Ate:

gluten free toast with peanut butter

1/4 cup fried rice, chicken, veg

2 cups coffee with cream

diet coke

grilled curried chicken with fried rice (gluten free)

avocado salad with carrots,

big ginger (while I operated on my finger)

beef and cabbage

cottage cheese and blackberries

1.5 squares dark chocolate

AJ Spent

$.25 diet coke

Daddy's Home!

Although I packed a nice lunch for Amanda and I based on leftovers from our juicy lucy triumph, I left them out all night.  So we had cheese, celery and cashews for lunch, which is actually tasty and sustaining.  Even Amanda thought so.
Thank goodness AJ is done with his convention.  He did get to eat prime rib, and I hear there were some donut-related backslides.
We're back on the straight and narrow, with a delicious dinner with just a little bit of rice to get us started.  One day at a time.

Kristin Ate:
scrambled egg with spinach and sour cream
4 cups coffee
2 squares 95% cocoa chocolate
diet coke
cashews (1/2 cup)
celery
carrots
cheese 1 oz or so
chicken, ginger, asparagus, mushroom stirfry
fried rice with lots o veggies (1/3 cup rice)
healthy choice fudgesicle


Kristin Spent 
$0.00

2 coffee w/ cr
egg sausage cheese biscuit
sm apple
donut
open face pulled pork sand
Algrotin potatoes
salad
diet coke
stir chicken and veg
fried rice
square of dark chocolate
15 cashews

AJ spent
$10.64 cub for little sizzlers, dark choc. pea pods, green onions

Leek Morel Juicy Lucy

Chicken asparagus stir fry with ginger

And just a little fried rice.

Don't even try to call an exterminator; they are all eating prime rib

So AJ has been on the new job about 2 weeks, I think, and it seems like he is having the best time.  Tonight he is at the state convention of exterminators,  They are staying all night, because I guess those guys like to party, but they also like to be at their meetings on time. So the guys are all staying at a cool hotel downtown, so they can do their thing and keep the company cars and trucks in good condition.  It isn't just AJ's company, it is every exterminator in the whole state.  AJ is hoping for some prime rib, and trying not to eat whet or carbs.  We'll see how he does.  I'm hoping he posts from the convention.

In the meantime, Amanda and I are on our own.  No one to make our breakfasts or pack our lunches.  We managed this morning and already have tomorrow's lunches in the fridge.  So I guess we'll be ok.  If it doesn't snow too much.
sigh.

Kristin Ate ( and cooked)

scrambled eggs with spinach and sour cream
3 pieces of cheese
3 handfuls of cashews
celery
diet coke
truffle-leek juicy lucy with wine sauce
asparagus
healthy choice fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

AJ ate:

coffee w/ cream 3

Yogurt cup

cheese danish

coke

salad

breaded chicken breast

black beans and corn

spanish rice

lemon bar

prime rib

ceasar salad

mashed potatoes

3 big gingers

beer

choc moose

AJ spent 

$5 car wash

$20 drinks and tips

Friday! Friday!

Today I got a basted egg instead of scrambled.  OOOh.  Big dayd!
There were piles of treats and donuts, but I was happy to have some almonds.

Kristin Ate
Basted egg
2 coffees
2 handfuls of almonds
celery and carrots
cheese
almond/walnut bread with butter
diet coke
tuna bo


AJ Ate

egg on toast
2 coffee with cream
carrots and celery
cheese and crackers (wheat free)
tuna bowl

AJ spent

$1.29 cup of coffee

Saturday and Sunday

Today was a big day. AJ gave Tom and Kendra all of the delicious wheaty foods from the freezer.  Goodbye egg rolls, perogies, mozzerella cheese for frying.  Goodbye bread and chips.  AJ has been evangelized.

We made a bunch of paper mache goop from flour in the canister and there is only a little bit left.  Wheat and water, boiled up, make a sticky paste that when dry, becomes rock hard.  I wonder if it does that inside your belly?  It makes your hands itch, too.

We both noticed that, after our nice breakfast we all forgot to eat lunch; Amanda too.  Hm.  AJ doesn't usually forget to eat.

Kristin ate:
a basted egg
cheeses, both morel/leek and sharp cheddar
cashews
5 berries
2 cups of coffee
cheese hunk
chicken florentine with cream sauce (and spinach, of course)
salad
red wine
diet coke
2 handfuls cashews
fudgesicle (healthy choice)

Kristin Spent
$59.00 ASCD online membership
$8.00 nook books (working on my thesis)

Saturday Kristin Ate
scrambled eggs with spinach and sour cream
bacon
samples at costco- hot dogs, tilapia, pot roast
2 cups coffee with cream
cheese and cashews for lunch
diet coke
pork chops encrusted with almonds
roasted vegetables
salad
green beans
fudgesicle (healthy choice)

Saturday AJ ate
scrambled eggs with spinach, onions, sour cream
3 cups coffee with cream
hot dog, tilapia, pot roast samples at Costco
Raspberry smoothy with flax seed
cashews ( 2 handfulls)
pork chops
roasted vegetables
salad
green beans
fudgesicle

AJ spent
$230 at Costco (meat and vegetables, work gloves, toilet paper, cashews, coffee)
$50.00 gas
$6.35 at Cub for ELOO, soy sauce w/no wheat, Worshestershire sauce
$243 ATT  bill
$9.60 CUB cabbage, cream, apples, spinach

Sunday AJ ate
Flaxseed and coconut cereal with berries
2 handfulls of cashews
chicken florentine
salad
glass of wine.

Sunday morning breakfast. No wheat

Kristin had morel and leek jack cheese, organic sharp cheddar, a basted egg and cashews. Aj and Amanda had hot flaxseed coconut cereal with blackberries. Everything was very tasty.

Happy Happy!

I got to work and AJ was putting together a delicious broccoli chicken casserole.  He was about to add some rice, (which isn't wheat, but was banned on every other "low carb" kind of diet.  He said that the book made no mention of rice.  I went to the internet, where Dr. Davis takes a stand- no rice.  We began our nightly discussion about meat and vegetables.  I think that's enough- AJ can't give up on the idea that there will be a starch substitute.  We were having a battle of information when

ding, ding!

Kendra texted. 

Can we come over for dinner?

OOH!  happy! happy!  Add some chicken, put some potatoes in the microwave!  The kids are coming for dinner!

The door squeaks.  It's Jonny!  Good think we made lots of potatoes!

It's nice when another discussion about meat and vegetables turns into a happy family party.  AJ even had some bread hidden away.  For the boys.  Not me.  Meat and vegetables.  That's what I'm eatin.'

Kristin Ate

1 scrambled egg with onions and peppers

2 coffees with cream

pot roast leftovers

diet coke

mixed nuts

brocolli chicken casserole

Kristin Spent

$0.00

AJ ate:

AJ spent:

Pot Roast Perfection

It was as good as it looks.

Meat and Vegetables

Yesterday AJ asked me what I'd like for dinner and I said "meat and vegetables," which is the only thing you can eat when you are going low-carb.  He made chicken enchilada casserole (a low carb recipe, but not exactly meat and vegetables.)  Tonight I got home after a long, long day and beheld a pristine kitchen.  All I could smell was bleach.
"Um, what were you thinking about for dinner?"  I asked, fake-cheerfully.
"Oh, meat and vegetables," AJ said fake-casually, as he opened the oven and whipped out a beautiful pot-roast, just like Sylvia used to make.  Done to perfection.
He's already packed my lunch for me tomorrow.
What a man.
Also, the bleach smell was from AJ cleaning the bathtub and tile, which got become kinda mildewed.
I mean, seriously.  What a man.

Kristin Ate:
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions, peppers and mushrooms
2 coffees with cream
salad with meat and cheese
diet coke
olives
1 cheese stick
pot roast
potato
carrots
parsnips
onion
garlic
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 piece apple walnut almond wheatless bread with butter


Kristin Spent
$10.19  Nook Book (Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers)

AJ ate:
scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions peppers
2 coffee with cream
enchilada hotdish
chocolate covered donut
2 slices of apple walnut bread
potroast and vegetables
slice of gluten free toast (2)
coke

AJ spent
$75.00 HSN
$221.00 car insurance
$1.39 (donut at holiday)
$47.89 Costco for pot roast, butter, cheese, eyeglass cleaner



Not just a donut but a gas station donut.

Wheatless Apple walnut bread

Going wheatless but need bread. Only 5grams of carbs per slice high in protein. Had to make my own almond flour and apple sauce. Needs to cool before I can taste it to see if it was all worth while. Well it came out of the pan in one piece and you can slice it. Tastes sure like what I would imagine an almond soufflé would taste like, probable could have baked another 5 minutes. I'm sure I'll have no problem getting it eaten. A slice of cheese and a slice of this should be a good breakfast with coffee.

So it is Tuesday night and I'm catching up what we spent over the weekend


$10.26 at Cub for Oscar supplies
$4.02 tabbouleh
$10.41 noodles
$2 parking
$35 gas
$7.50 popcorn at AMC
$7.50 popcorn at edina cinema
$228 credit card payment
$27 edina cinema

White Knuckle

So it's the second day of no wheat, wheat belly style, which allows any veggie in unlimited quantities except for corn and starch.  I think that's fair enough, don't you?
Apparently wheat is the root of all illness and belly fat, because it is not your great grandmother's wheat.  There's a lot of chapters explaining why, but that's about the size of it.

Kristin Ate
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions and peppers.
2 coffees with cream
beef and cabbage and mixed veggies
celery and carrots
9 cheese curds and 7 carrots
good-belly enchiladas
green salad
water
fudgesicle (weight watchers)
2 arithrimycen tablets (sinus infection)
lots more water.

Kristin Spent
$25.00 minute clinic

AJ Ate
Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers
english muffin
carrots and celery
2 sloppy joes
2 pieces of white cake
coke
good belly enchiladas
green salad
2 coffees with cream

Not so much wheat free for me need to use up what we have around the house

AJ spent monday and tuesday
$35 augsburg
$21.33 Hachenmuellers
$30.91 target for drugs, ice cream and gorp supplies for kristin
$9.27 linden hills coop
$43.34 costco

Oscar food

I ate a little of all of this. Oy.  So did AJ

Reboot

Ok.  It's time for a reboot.  It's been a week since our last post.  This sounds like confession.  Bless me father for I have sinned.  It's been 7 days since my last confession.  How do I even know what confession is like?  I am not catholic.  I read a lot and I see lots of movies.  Ah, the movies.  An occasion of sin.  Which is another Catholic thing, to the best of my understanding.

So last week we needed to see 4 movies to make our Academy Awards show deadline.  Tbis was the second year in a row that we made it. We had a great time, but it was not good for our consumption.  Money was spent, although carefully.  We had discount tickets for Zero Dark 30. Candy was eaten, but only a half-pack at a time.  There was lots of wheat and starch consumed, so I'm giving it up.

Today AJ made me an egg macmuffin and a lunch with lots of carbs.  I threw away the muffin, the chips, the hummous, the bread.
Kristin ate:
egg and ham
emergen c
french onion soup
celery and carrots
shredded cheese
2 diet cokes
1 cheese stick
a pile of burger and cabbage
mixed veg
tabuli
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 beer


Kristin spent
$0.00

I guess beer is made of wheat, so it's a no go.  That's fine.  Water tomorrow.  Can't be perfect on the first day.

We're back, baby.

AJ ate

Homemade egg mcmuffin
roast beef sandwich
piece of cake
banana
diet coke
2 coffee with cream
cookie
burger with cabbage
mixed veg
.5 beer
piece of cake

AJ Spent
$0.00

We did

My last post was made from the New Hope Cinema Grill.  We did eat the sundae and it was perfect for 2.  We each had a nordeast, too, and thought it was $2.00, but our total bill was 15.37, so it must not have been the advertised $2.00 special beer.  Today i came home and there was a new snowblower in the bouse.  Amanda wants to spend 12.00 on World War Z for her nook.  I say sure, why not.

We are having a frugality backslide.  Must be AJ's new job.  The sense of urgency has lessoned.

Time for ARGO- I think I'll need to catch up on the "ate" and "spent" list tomorrow.

Django Unchained!

It's $2.00 Tuesday at the Cinema Grill. We had FREE coupons for the movie! Four dollar savings! The brownie sundae would cost a total of $,99. Will we or won't we?

More retail therapy-

Stuff I didn't buy today.

Retail Therapy

I thought Cost Plus World Market was out of business in our area.  Kendra and Tom gave me some sweet items from Cost Plus World Market for Christmas- I assumed they got them online.  So when Tom told me that they were looking at furniture at that store, I perked right up.  Online?  I said.  No- in Roseville!  Oh happy day!  I truly love that store!  It's like the Pier One of my childhood, not the fancy Pier One of today.  I plotted and planned for an opportunity to slide in there alone and bask in the international glory.
Today was the day.  I had to drive AJ to work so he could pick up his company car.  (oh happy day again!) I cruised right over to Rosedale.  I waited outside until they opened.
They had a "Life of Pi" department.  Really.  Beautiful trinkets and non-trinkets from India.  I found a delightful sequined, jeweled and embroidered set of office tools.  A tiny stapler.  A tape measure.  A bejeweld ruler.  A ruler and a tape measure!  I could put it in the batik bag that was part of the set and keep it in my purse!  There were jeweled scissors and a jeweled pen.  All for 14.99.  I chose the best color and put it in the cart.  Next time someone needs a pen, I'm gonna whip out that jeweled delight.  I drove it around the store while I picked out a shower curtain, a floor lamp, and many items for easter baskets.  I got to thinking that the pen would hurt my fingers if I wrote with it, the tiny stapler probably wouldn't work, that I had a tape measure from Mood in New York City in my purse already, and that $14.99 would pay for a our trip to Django Unchained at 2 dollar Tuesday at New Hope Cinema grill.
I left the store empty handed.  All that stuff will be there in a couple weeks if I still want it.


Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee with cream
2 slices pb toast with honey
1 latte (grande, starbucks)
1 cinnamon scone
1 pretzel stuffed with feta and spinach
1 bag chips
tuna melt
1/3 orange
chips
1/2 bag popcorn
diet coke
1/3 box milkduds
handful jr. mints

Kristin Spent
$7.00 parking at hospital
$35.00 for lunch  (pretzels with feta and spinach, chips, cookie, coffees for 2, and 3 magazines)

Aj Ate
2 slices pb toast
roast beef sandwich
apple
2 cups coffee
2 cokes
tuna melt
chips
1/3 orange
shared large popcorn
1/3 box milkduds
12 jr. mints

AJ spent
$7.00 movie popcorn
$35.00 gas

Serenity Now!

Two super restful empty days turned into bingey-pants party time.  Saturday there was a quiet breakfast in bed followed by a string of family visits capped with a Dexter marathon that gave me nightmares.  Today I had another uneventful day that started with coffee and muffins in bed, followed by a class, a hospital visit, a birthday dinner and an episode of Downtown Abbey that was so upsetting that I had to have some ice cream even though I had already eaten two pieces of birthday cake.  I am planning another quiet day tomorrow, so I'll probably do seven things and take up jello shots and mud wrestling.

Note to self.
If you want to be frugal and thoughtful about what you eat, stay away from Dave and Buster's, Dexter, and Downtown Abbey.  All seem to lead to consumption of fried food and ice cream.

In the Saturday food list, you will notice that I ate lunch at least twice, and for some reason, insisted on the purchase of high quality peppermint bon-bon ice cream for a milkshake.


Kristin Ate:

Saturday:
2 pieces cinnamon toast, 3 skinny slices of irish cheese
3 cups of coffee
3 pieces of pizza (the meatball was remarkable.)
a diet coke
12 french fired
1 piece of fried shrimp
1 stella artois (I ordered the "short" but it was huge- it wasn't 5 o'clock yet, either.)
3 nachos with guacamole
2 mini pretzel dogs
1 little piece of birthday cake
a dozen or more french fries
a "slider"
1 diet coke from costco
1 toffee covered with chocolate and rolled in almonds
peanut butter toast
hot lemonade with honey
peppermint bon bon milk shake

AJ ate
 slices of cinnamon toast
cheese
2 slices of pizza
2 chicken wings
lots of nachos
blue moon
2 pieces of birthday cake
1 toffee
3 cups coffee


Kristin Spent
$ 26.65 at Michaels, Birthday presents for Haley, a dot to dot book for school, floss
AJ Spent
$50.75 on gas
$59.78 Dave and Busters
$58.88 Costco ( toffee and plant for Karen, coffee, cream, milk, bread.)
$6.00 parking at hospital
$10.61 Cub Ice cream, 2 cokes, grapefruit.

Sunday
Kristin Ate
3 malto meal muffins
a little pb and J
3 cups coffee with cream
1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 piece of Karen's toffee
2  cups hospital coffee with skim milk
2 frickadillars
potato salad
green salad
green beans
gravy
2 hawaiian rolls
2 slivers of 2 kinds of cake
1 scoop peppermint bon bon ice cream
8 saltines

AJ ate
3 magic muffins with pb and j
3 coffees, 2 with cream
slice pizza
coke
6 samples at costco (mahi with mango salsa, ice cream with frozen berries, popcorn, naked juice, turkey and cheese)
2 frickadillers
potato salad
2 buns
salad
green beans
2 pieces of cake

AJ spent
$58.92 at Costco (burger, flashlights, roast beef lunch meat, muffin mix)
$2.00 parking at hospital


Kristin Spent 
$0.00

I am noticing a trend toward spending more, which is disturbing.  More parties and going out.  Yow, it sure costs more to go out that to stay home.  We were invited to Psycho Suzi's tonight, but declined.  Those sweet kids can party just fine without us.  It would have been more relaxing than tonight's episode of Downton Abbey though.  Holy cow.  My heart's still beating fast.

Bon Bon

I also ate two delicious handmade Bon bons on feb 15. Full disclosure. Didn't mean to skip them. Just forgot. Besides, there were witnesses.

Some sloppy reporting and delicious dinners...

First, I need to report that we changed tradition and gave the adult boys underwear, but socks instead of drawers.  The ladies got socks too.  All are delivered, except for Jon and Heidi, who apparently took two days off work to watch the LOTR movies, extended version, three in a row.  I can't believe they aren't blogging about that.

The little boys got traditional underpants.  No red were available, so we dyed them red.  We had always wanted to do that.  It was fun to have a big pot of red underpants cooking on the stove.  AJ forgot to take the picture.  It was going to have a caption that said "What's cooking?"  Another betrayal.

AJ did the delivering because I was sitting with Karen while she had her third surgery to repair her broken leg.  I hear she woke up hungry and had a tuna sandwich for lunch.  

All I did was sit there, but today I have a sore throat. 

Exhausted from a big week, with holiday preps.  Feel like I've been bleeding money and self-control.  

Here is what we ate, to the best of our recollection:

Feb 13  Wednesday  

Kristin ate

2 coffees

egg on bun

salami sandwich

chips

diet coke

latte

4 kinds of chinese food, a little of each, including

shrimp and peapods

beef and brocolli

pork fried rice

chicken and something

cream cheese wonton

2/3 eggroll with sweet sauce and mustard

1 brownie

tea

Kristin Spent:

$0.00

$60 ballons

AJ ate

egg and biscuit

3 coffees

orange

corn chowder

fried rice 

chicken and veg

egg roll

2 cream puffs with plum jelly

latta

25 conversation hearts

AJ spent

$18.23 bulb garden

$25.03 gas

Feb 14 Kristin ate

2 coffees

egg on toast

1 chocolate heart

1 snickerdoodle

large hot chocolate

1 black coffee

1 blackberry creamcheese danish

about a million thin pretzels, chocolate covered

1 diet coke

2 meatballs

mashed potatoes

beets

1/2 beer

Kristin Spent 

$6.01 hospital coffee shop, cocoa and danish

$0.00 for parking, because machine was broken.  Bonus!!!!!

AJ ate

2 coffees with cream

Toast and egg

strawberry raspberry smoothy

fried rice 

diet coke

2 brownies

celery

4 meatballs

mash potatoes and mushroom gravy

6 conversation hearts

AJ spent

$10.71 diet cokes

February 15 (happy birthday amy!)

almonds (dog ate my egg sandwich)

emergen c

2 coffees with cream

1 salami sandwich

celery

1 diet coke

2 cups of tea 

toasted biscuit with honey

2 hot lemonades with honey (fave sore throat remedy)

salad

5 pieces homemade pizza, )potato, onion, goat cheese, leftover meatball. Less than one small pizza in all.  

fudgesicle

Kristin Spent

$0.00

AJ ate

toast and egg

2 coffee with cream

white rice and chicken and veg

diet coke

toast

4 pieces of pizza

salad

1/2 a beer

AJ spent

$0.25 diet coke

AJ is now a Journeyman Structural Pest Control Professional

What's money for, anyway?

Some consumption from the last couple days.

Red Underpants and Mylar Balloons

When my parents were young, my dad always got my mom nice, classy and traditional gifts on valentine's day.  The gift included a box from Dayton's with tissue and a nice, classy set of lady undies, lingerie, with silky panties and a matching bra, possibly a slip or a half-slip.  There was nothing pervy about it.  There was no such thing as a thong or even bikini panties then.  My mom could wear that underwear around the house and be fully covered.  Of course, she did not.  It was a nice, personal, mildly flirtatious attention from my dad to my mom; something I have to say he was pretty good at.

The four sisters in the family got underwear too.  A little box of candy and a pair of red carter panties.  My dad wanted to give us something "just like mama," but age appropriate.  It wasn't at all pervy, but very sweet.  By the time I was a teenager, we were focused on making the day nice for the nephews, and then my own children.  We got stuff from Welcome, but the undies went away.  There would be a big family dinner with red food, mom, dad, the cousins, and so many valentines on the table that we had to have an opening and a clearing before food could be served.  I loved that day.

Well, we don't gather like that any more, and Welcome and Sylvia have been gone for a while now, but I still want that sweet moment.  I have one child at home, and five grandchildren.  I've been searching the town for red underwear for my adult sons every year, no matter the cost, and often delivering days after the holiday.  I had the good sense not to get red underpants for the girlfriends and wives, thank, god, because that really would be pervy.  I think they think it's a little pervy that my boys still get red underpants from me.  AJ and I decided to rethink.  It's expensive, and probably not quite appropriate.  There is little reciprocation (which is ok- I'm not about that.)  We're conflicted.  These are the moments that our frugality falls apart.

The other thing- I was all ready to give up getting a red mylar balloon for each student.  My students are going to exchange cards but no candy.  All of the parents agree that candy kind of wrecks it.  I started to explain the balloon thing to my student teacher and almost choked up.  I decided to get the balloons again, and be frugal with something else.

So frugality is put aside, the pilgimage to Target is complete.  I can't spoil the surprise, but I will say that undergarments were purchased.

Kristin Ate
Egg on a bun
2 coffees with cream
4 animal crackers
diet coke
celery and olives
almonds- 1/4 cup
1/3 milk chocolate trader joes candy bar
a small brownie
triscuits and brie
handful of almonds
4 peanut butter pretzels
corn  chowder
2 biscuits
1/2 beer
McDonald's hot fudge sundae

Kristin Spent 
$157 at target on Valentines for amanda to give friends, for grandsons and boys and their girls, outfit for Amanda, and lovely gift for Amanda. Google eyes for school project.  Yow.  Not so frugal.
$3.69 at Michaels for rit dye and puff paint.

AJ ate
Hot chocolate
2 cups of coffee with cream
egg on toast
potato chips
salami turkey san
diet coke
celery
milk chocolate
corn chowder
2 biscuits
hot fudge sundae
1/2 beer

AJ spent
$10.78 diet cokes
$2,79 hot fudge sundaes

With a couple of goldfish crackers, I can rule the world.

I have all kinds of problems with manipulating behavior with food.  Not problems in implementation- I am a master at doing it.  I think it's morally wrong.  I remember hearing Alfie Kohn say that the Pizza Hut reading program was successful at creating fat kids who hate to read.  But what about a few goldfish crackers for kids who are dying to have just a little something to eat?  Is that so wrong?

I am teaching an after school class to a bunch of older kids who want to brush up on their math.  They are wild and wonderful, hungry for social time, academic success and FOOD!!! So hungry for food.  They will do anything, I mean anything for the chance to have a couple, literally a couple goldfish crackers.  If I fell the need for a little quiet worktime, I can say, "silent contest!" and walk around with a  bag of pepperidge farm goldfish, and they will bend their big old heads to their work.  pick up their pencils and go to town.  The loud ones, the funny ones, the needy ones and the silly ones.  Will work for goldfish.  Or a pretzel. And by that I mean one pretzel.  I'm not kidding.  
How hungry are these kids anyway?


Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cup coffee with cream
five animal crackers
1 piece of homemade bread
spaghetti with veggies
diet coke
celery
1/2 orange
bag of scooby snacks (stale)
Luna bar
3 goldfish crackers
hamburger with onion and mayo
potato chips
spinach
fudgesicle
...and a bowl of kix

Kristin Spent
$3.00 Amanda's field trip

AJ Ate
egg and toast
2 coffees with cream
black coffee
spaghetti with vegetables
popcorn
coke
spinach
hamburger
potato chips
15 almonds
orange

AJ Spent
$.75 on coke
$25.00 overdraft protection payment TCF
House payment

Wheat Belly?

We bought a book called Wheat Belly.  The central thesis is that the wheat of today is not the same as our Grandmother's wheat, but is as genetically similar to ancestral wheat as today's humans are to a monkey.  The effort to create a high-yield wheat that would feed the world efficiently accidentally caused wheat to be, well, bad.  I have read less than 2 chapters, and AJ has read more.  I can see where this is going.  The bread dough in the fridge was not turned into cinnamon rolls today.  We had delicious oatmeal instead.  We are having spaghetti for dinner, because we may be getting ready to say goodbye to pasta and bread.  I feel a crusade coming on.


Kristin Ate
3 cups of coffee with cream
oatmeal with raisins, milk, brown sugar and butter
1/2 orange
fried rice
1/2 pb and honey sandwich
potato chips
1/2 diet coke
hot chocolate
2 piles of pasta with mushrooms, onions, garlic and tomatos
salad
2 pieces of homemade bread
glass of wine
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

AJ Ate
oatmeal
1/2 orange
1/2 pb sandwich
6 samples at costco- hotdog, cheese, cracker with cream cheese and roasted red bell pepper, chimichanga (awful) granola balls, granola bar
fried rice
chips
hot chocolate
pasta with delicious vegetable sauce 1 pile
2 slices bread
1 glass wine
salad
3 cups coffee with cream.


AJ Spent 
$8.72 ink refills
$59.98 costco 2 pairs of movie tickets with further discount, celery, onions, milk, almonds chunk of corned beef
$30.01 gas

Giant Boxes of Candy

The last time we saw a movie we were determined to resist buying popcorn and candy, but seemed to buy popcorn and candy anyway.  Amanda had been looking forward to seeing the latest zombie-based rom-com, Warm Bodies, an apocolyptic romp in which a handsome young "corpse" inexplicably begins to recover his heart-beat after eating the brains of the heroine's boyfriend.  To the best of my understanding.  Obviously, no human being should be required to watch this movie without popcorn and candy.  So AJ and I went to Target to buy a box of milk duds for me and an bag of gummy worms for Amanda, and some popcorn to pop in a pan.  While we pushed the cart around, looking at all of the stuff we didn't really want to buy, I read the ingredients of the candy.  Holy cow.  A movie sized box of milk duds has 3.5 servings, at 170 calories each.  Yikes.  If I had that whole box I would eat it all, or most of it. About 600 calories. The gummy worms had four servings, at 130 each.  The gummy worms were easy to portion out.  4 worms per serving.  The whole bag (16 worms!) 520 calories.  Dang.  Cripes.
AJ packed the candy into portion sized ziplocks, Amanda made a fuss.  She was pretty sure that she would eat the candy all at once and would then be candyless.  Her words.  She was almost crying.  We decided that 4 worms were pretty skimpy and increased her ration to eight.  I thought my milkduds were skimpy too, but I was trying to be a good example, so I didn't complain.  We packed our popcorn, candy and bottles of diet coke into our biggest purses and off we went to the 3:30 showing (still cheap seats!).
The movie was better than expected, the milk duds held out, and Amanda didn't even eat all of her popcorn.  I've already hunted around for the hiding place, but haven't found it.
When we got home, I made the most delicious fried rice ever, with fresh ginger, chicken, and peapods, with AJ as my sous chef.  The frozen potstickers were too old to eat, so we chucked 'em.  I was so glad I hadn't eaten the whole box of milk duds.

Kristin Ate
3 coffees with cream
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
peanut butter and honey sandwich with potato chips
 a diet coke
a gallon of popcorn with real butter
1/3 box milk duds
another diet coke
big pile fried rice
1 1/2 glass red wine
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent 
$15.00 on movie
$2.00 candy
$3.69 popcorn
$9.89 hair dye.

AJ ate
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
cookie
pb sandwich
chips
chocolate
fried rice
2 glasses of wine

AJ spent
$15.04 holiday gas
$2.59 2 diet cokes in bottles

Dang, we are awesome cooks.

Slippery Slope

Everybody loves Friday- just a few hours of work, and then the weekend starts.  The trouble is that by Friday I am exhausted,  my guard is down, and down the slippery slope I go.  Lots of junky eating is about to be recorded.

Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cups of coffee
1/2 school breakfast (a power-packed oatmeal cookie.  It was delicious.)
5 animal crackers
salami sandwich
celery
1/8 cup almonds
diet coke
2 little debbie zebra cakes
hot chocolate
muffin with butter and honey
homemade pizza
1/8 cup chocolate chips
1/2 beer
cran walnut cookie
fudgesicle

Kristin Spent
$0.00

AJ ate
2 muffins
black coffee
2 toast with pb
orange
2 coffee with cream
banana
1/4 cup ice cream
4-5 samples at costco
4 pieces of pizza
1/2 beer
2 cookies

AJ spent
$20,00 gas  $81 groceries (accidental clams, flour, sugar, 2 loaves bread, discount movie tickets, diced tomatoes, basil garlic tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, fudgesicles, romaine)