Naturally, since I am always serving children and don't have the time or energy to eat breakfast, I don't. I am no longer accustomed to it and I don't really want breakfast. I don't crave it, it's not my favorite food (I like the food better in the evening) and yeah.
TIM on the other hand LOVES breakfast and often wants me to make it. I am usually willing to but other times, I don't have it in me. Today was one of those times. The morning was supposed to be my time. The time I had to visit some friends, to go looking at different places.
So that's what I did. I went out, hoping to find a cast iron skillet (I didn't). I went back and Tim worked it out for himself. ;) Then I made two eggs and tomatoes chopped.
THEN I met up with Dreama and ate no-refined sugar french fries with her. It was a wonderful 30 minutes. During lunch, I read a street sign and recognized it as the street Emily lives off of. So, I dropped over very inappropriately, but they loved it, just like old times.
Besides just getting away, I had another purpose to coming to Lexington. Valerie wanted to treat her counters. It's a kit where you make your counters look like granite.We had fun priming it, it was a new experience! That layer had to dry for 8 hours, so we rewarded ourselves with Panera.
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO EAT AT PANERA BREAD???? The chicken noodle soup HAS SUGAR IN IT. Did you know that? The lady at the counter got real tired of me asking her to read me the ingredients. It sure was an experience. I ended up with a great salad and no dressing. I gave Valerie the bread, no need to pay for something and it go to waste.
We went to Kroger to get some ingredients for a cake. I found yummy chips there, too. But no salsa. I didn't look very hard. Then we decided to venture out to Trader Joe's where I found a sugar-less bread and some salsa and the most delicious fruit strips, and some powder stuff. Trader Joe's was a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Whole Foods wasn't very far so we went there, too. I actually think that's where I found the sugar powder. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was from there. Whole Foods was a different experience. I found green pea crisps there. I shared them with Brody, my nephew pup.I really like the crisps. I have had then before, there aren't a lot of ingredients in the plain ones, which are the ones I prefer.
Let me tell you about the cake we made. Ha! It was good. It's a black bean cake that doesn't taste anything like black beans. The icing was great, but the first attempt was a big flop. Then we made brownies and those were horrible. I should have added two cans of beans rather than the one. But the cake, I'll be making that one again!
In conclusion, it's hard to go to these stores looking for a particular list of ingredients to make one recipe. I think it may be easier to buy foods with good prices/deals and make stuff from them. I want to be a meal planner, but I'm not very good at that and it goes out of the window with cravings anyway.
Not to mention there aren't whole food and natural food stores very close to me that are worth going to. Really.
Brunch: Eggs and Tomatoes
Linner: Salad from Panera
Snack: Bread with real butter and a taste of chocolate bean cake, chips and salsa, fruit strips
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