Winning Friends with Salad

After blogging, Peter took a nap and I went to the grocery store. My goal was to get lunch materials, fruit, cereal, yogurt/milk/cheese - basics that could be eaten in a week. I’ve been living in New York for two years, and my parents live in a townhouse-area of Virgina - so it’s been a while since I’ve been in a rural grocery store. It blew my mind! It was frickin huge! Oh MY GOONESS! There was so much of everything - just incredible. Not to mention the store itself was ginormous - huge highway-sized lanes for like 60 ppl in the store total. I overheard someone saying the store was full today - I couldn’t believe it - the place was totally dead, considering the amount of space they had. Probably two city blocks - just incredible. Even the carts were so freaking big - I’m a tall girl, but I felt like a 3 year old behind a tractor, pushing this thing! I couldn’t control it. Collisions definitely insured.

You know me, I took this as a chance to investigate my two food loves: cereal and bars. This was the cereal aisle:

It went all the way down to the end! All cereals - easily 100 different types. Since I seriously disobeyed the Keri Rule ‘1 bar/day’, I tried to search for a cereal with more fiber than sugar to make good. It was TOUGH. Out of those 100 cereals, less than 15 fit the bill. There were some delicious sounding ones though. Check this out:

Honey Bunches of Oats: Just Bunches. Oh my goodness - heaven in a bowl. Great idea for a cereal. Unfortunately it had aprox gazillion grams of sugar. I ended up with this guy, who had (by some stroke of luck) 8g fiber to 7g sugar:

So get excited for tomorrow morning. I know I am.

I was almost done with shopping when I found this aisle:

Ahhhhh! So many bars! And some I’ve never even heard of before!

Kashi Roll?!?! And tons of new flavors of my usual faves. Unfortunately I made the mature decision to draw the line at 3 bars/day. But I was hungry. I almost convinced myself it would be cool. Haha, oy. As I was leaving the grocery store, I had a snack of a sadly mushy nectarine.

Whoo - I am healthy and not going to OD on energy bars! (Mom - I was not in drive during the taking of this picture. Firmly in park. Engine off.)

I collected Peter from his nap and we unpacked groceries and hung out a bit before heading to an early dinner (since we’re definitely headed to an early bedtime). We went to one of my childhood favorites, Ruth & Wimpy’s. As a kid, I always ordered the Wimpy Steak and Cheese (aka heart attack/extra 20 lbs on a stick). I almost got it tonight - but I couldn’t quite do it - it’s freaking huge. Instead I ordered lazy steamed lobster (called lazy because they do all the cracking/taking out the meat for you), with a baked potato, and corn on the cob:

I ate 3/4ths of the lobster meat, 3/4ths the baked potato, and all of the corn. I did want to indulge a little bit though - so I had half of one of their AMAZING rolls with their INCREDIBLE cinnamon butter:

and I ordered some of their scorched-into-my-memory-they’re-that-good onion rings, which I split with Peter:

Peter got a Blueberry Freeze, which is basically a blueberry milkshake - but so outstandingly delicious. I snuck around 1/3:

Such a delicious dinner! I’m definitely full, but I don’t feel like I went too crazy. I probably ate more food than normal today, but I’ve also been awake for more hours than normal. I think it will even out - I was very good at eating when I was hungry and not just bored/tired/frustrated.

To end our first partial day in Maine, here’s me with the Ruth and Wimpy’s mascot Wilbur. Night everyone!