Tie o’ the Day and I present more thumbs-up ice cream choices for y’all to try. You can’t go wrong with Red Button Vintage Creamery’s Raspberry Cheesecake. And Tillamook’s Oregon Dark Cherry doesn’t disappoint. Just sayin’. Tie tells me I probably have bowls/plates of salad in my dining future, and here’s why:
I was putting groceries away yesterday. I surveyed the haul, and although there were fruits and veggies and other healthy food staples, I also had “my stash.” My stash was quite typical for me: Diet Coke, ice cream, licorice, ice cream, ice cream toppings, ice cream, pretzels, ice cream, cowboy caviar, ice cream, frozen pizza, ice cream, cereal, and a little dollop or two of ice cream. The contraband is all mine, mine, mine.
I’m not opposed to sharing with others. For the last three or so years, Suzanne has followed a diet which has successfully helped her lose the equivalent of a 5th-grader from her mortal coil. (That’s how Suzanne, the educator, describes the amount of weight she lost.) The stash is completely mine because Suzanne likes to maintain her svelte-ness, so she stays away from my not-so-healthy foods. I maintain my usual unusual diet. We call it The Crap Diet. I have a crappy diet. But to be fair, I eat as little junk as possible when Suzanne is around. I think it’s rude to eat the crap stuff in front of her. Suzanne says it’s okay for me to eat whatever goodies I want when I’m around her, but I don’t like how it makes me feel.
Anyhoo… As I was dealing with the groceries, I said to Suzanne, “I think I should start eating better. What do you think?” Suzanne gave me the are-you-kidding-me? look and said, “I’ve thought that for a long time.” She’s never said anything to me about it before, and I shouldn’t have asked her about it. By both of us saying OUT LOUD that it would be a good idea for me to change my eating habits, it became a real thing. I now have to un-junk-food my ways. It makes sense. I told her that when this grocery-trip stash of my wrong food is gone, that’s it– except for ice cream and Diet Coke. They’re not going anywhere. She laughed at the idea I think I will come home from my next grocery store outing without buying the entirety o’ The Crap Food Group. But I am seriously gonna cease the regular buying of that stuff. Oh, it can still be a sometimes-thing, but it shouldn’t be my norm. Because I said to Suzanne I will clean up my menu, now I have to do it. It’s how I be. If I tell her I’ll do something, I do it.
I will cut down on ice cream. I will cut back on Diet Coke. But I hereby declare, for both of us, eating out will always be a decadent free-for-all.
I hope we start eating out more.
