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The Extent Of My Day

Posted on July 6, 2013 by LFFL

My daily Dairy Queen Butterfinger Blizzard and add a Heath bar, please.

As if there’s not enough hydrogenation and partial-hydrogenation going on inside that cup that I had to go and have them “add a Heath” candy bar to the mix like the Butterfinger with the ice cream wasn’t enough.

To top it all off, they ask if I want my “usual.” Just because my car shows up in your drive-thru area for the same thing every day doesn’t mean I have a “usual”, lady!!

And later, I hook myself up with these caramel apple blossoms from the Whole Foods store that I had in the freezer. Pop them in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. They were so on point! Delicious.

I’m satisfied with how my day went.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, fetch yourself a Dairy Queen Blizzard along with a Caramel Apple Blossom. Lounge around the house, savor every bite, and enjoy them with your feet up.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Apparently if you show up at an establishment on a regular basis and order the exact same things every single time, you have a “usual.” The jury’s still out on whether that gives you a good name or a bad name.

It's Cookie Time

Posted on June 29, 2013 by LFFL

Well, these little darlings (or big, technically) came from Whole Foods Market yesterday. I usually walk right past the bakery area, but yesterday I was feeling a little daring. And since I’ve never tried their baked cookies before—I figured, eh, why not?

You just open the clear cases, take a sheet of thin paper they have there and grab your own cookies and other baked goods, put them into a sack or box, and be on your way.

So the first one, front and center, is the Cocoa Chewie Cookie—the only thing I can tell you is it’s full of the chocolatey loveliness that it looks like it is. It lives up to its name. Although its look and size made someone think I had a hamburger pattie on my plate with two cookies. (Apparently, my reputation precedes me.)

Top right is your basic Chocolate Chip Cookie—there was nothing special about it. Just a good chocolate chip cookie.

Aaannnndddd on your far left, folks, we have here what’s called the Vegan Crazy Jeff’s Cookie—yeah, he’s crazy alright whoever he is. I didn’t make it past the first bite on that one.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, try some fresh-baked cookies at your local health food store and see how you like them. Get up and experience different things. It’s better than doing nothing. Live a little! Even if you just live to learn that Crazy Jeff will no longer be a part of your life again.

Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s always some truth in the naming of a food product. Read between the lines.

Jip Chips

Posted on May 15, 2013 by LFFL

Here is one of my favorite type of chips from the health food store. I just love the Baked Sour Cream & Onion Potato Chips from Whole Foods. They’re great with a sandwich or by themselves.

Now the Sweeet Potato Tortilla Chips were good, too. But do you see where the word Simply Sweeet Potato is located on the front of the bag? Well, that’s right about where the chips started when I opened the bag. What in the world is THAT about? Is that much bag really necessary?

Now, I only happened to buy these sweet potato chips because Whole Foods had their free sample snack stands out at the end of every aisle on this particular day. And since it looked like I was practically the first person to dip into the sample tray, I decided to try one out (but I took the tongs and reached towards the very back of the tray anyway).

Even if I look like I’m the first to sample from the tray, something inside me still doesn’t trust it and I reach for the ones in the very back, regardless. This is how I am with every sample tray of anything I want to try. But if the sample tray doesn’t look appealing and looks like thousands of people have already been there—you can believe I’ll take a pass on it until someone wants to fill it up again with fresh ones.

But this is how I end up buying things I really don’t need in the first place. If it tastes good to me, then I look for the product to buy on the shelf—which is usually right there in your face next to the sample. So I usually try to do my grocery shopping on a full stomach—otherwise if I’m in starvation mode, all the sample trays seem to taste SO good which—in actuality—they probably all don’t taste good enough for me to buy if I’m meandering on a half-way full stomach. The problem is that everything tastes fabulous when you’re “starvin’ like Marvin.”

So, if you have nothing else to do today, try the sample trays of food in your local grocery store—but do it on a full stomach so you’re not tempted to buy everything you sample taste.

Take-Away Life Lesson: If you could actually see how many chips are in a bag before you buy them, you would probably never be able to justify the cost to buy them in the first place.

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My Fun Outing At Whole Foods Market

Posted on May 10, 2013 by LFFL

Whole Foods Market Bulk Bins — Bulk Bins

So, I absolutely LOVE my Whole Foods Market health food store. I love the layout of the store and how everything is so neat and pretty when you walk inside. It makes you want to buy everything.

Fresh Seafood

This is part of the fun of trying new recipes all the time. It exposes me to ingredients that I’ve either never heard of before or never used before—weird spice names, cheeses I’ve never heard of, produce that sounds like it came from another planet, and more.

Whole Foods Market White Meat — Fresh White Meat

What I’ve found though is that when you can’t find most of these ‘weird’ items in an average grocery store—you can always find them in the Whole Foods health food store. Boy, they carry EVERYTHING!

So here I am walking through the store doing my usual shopping thinking what nice things I could say about this store on my blog. I took pictures here and there (over the course of 3 different days that I did my shopping over a 2-week time period) of how neatly everything was arranged and how nice the store looked—and no one ever said anything to me.

Fresh Red Meat

Now, the meat guys looked at me weird at one point—but that was about it. I just assumed they thought I was a meat inspector or something—but dressed how I was that day, I don’t know how they could have confused me.

And I’m thinking it’s no big deal to do this considering how everyone has cell phone cameras all over the world now. I mean, what do I know? How can you police everyone?

Whole Foods Market Meat Patties — Fresh Meat Patties

Well, I didn’t have a problem until I got to the cheese department. There is apparently a cheese department manager/policeman who had an in-depth conversation with me about what I was doing, you can’t do that, who are you, why are you here, etc., etc., etc. It went on and on and on.

Whole Foods Market Cheeses — Fresh Cheeses

What I didn’t like was that he told me I “couldn’t take pictures at all.” But when I asked him why, he just gave me a blank stare and didn’t have an answer. Then he said it was their store policy. Well, I asked him why it was their policy—what was the reason. He still couldn’t/wouldn’t tell me. He didn’t have an answer right off the bat.

Soooooo……………………..

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