Food Challenge Casualty

Conversation with M today:

M: Mama, can we make a delicious and nutritious fruit salad?

(Seriously, that is what she said verbatim.)

Me: No.

M: But why not????!!!!

Me: Because we don’t have any fruit.

M: Can’t we buy some?  We just need some oranges and apples and bananas and pineapple!  It would be delicious AND healthy.

Me: No.  We aren’t buying groceries this week.  No fruit for you!

M: *sigh*  I miss fruit.

Today was Mr. A’s birthday, a fact I completely forgot until he reminded me this morning.

(What can I say?  I have been really busy with the house stuff!)

I took the girls to the grocery store to buy ice cream and some much needed butter (vital to make homemade hot fudge) and bananas to satisfy Mr. A’s birthday dessert request.  At our local grocery store, they have a lot of samples of fresh fruit and cheese.  You would have thought the girls were starving if you saw the way they were double fisting their toothpicked samples.

The thing is, we still have a good amount of food, but none of it is convenient and we are really tired of most of the choices we have available.

Food Challenge:Day 19

Breakfast: Coffee for me.  I think the girls had oatmeal?

Lunch: Hotdogs for the girls.  Sadly, I ate so many oatmeal cookies in the morning I forgot to eat lunch until around 2:30.  Then I tried out the beets & sour cream again and found it so disgusting I threw it away (I think the problem was the canned julienned beets.  Blech.).  I finally ate a baked potato with sour cream and felt very unsatisfied.

Snacks:  The girls ate dry Special K cereal. Also, we ate a lot of oatmeal cookies.   In the afternoon, a friend brought over a bag of candy and other treats, so we ate some of those too.  (Thanks ML!)

Dinner: Whole roast chicken, carrots, peas, mashed potatoes and gravy.  The potatoes were not good because we didn’t have any butter.  Ditto on the carrots.

Food Challenge: Day 20

Breakfast: I think the girls ate rice, but I don’t know for sure what else they may have had.  I am sure you will be surprised that I had coffee.  And two cookies.  And a cadbury egg.  And a caramello bunny.  Ahem.

Lunch: Leftover chicken & mashed potatoes.

Snack: Cheerios snack mix.  Also, because they are apparently dying of scurvy or other vitamin deficiencies, the girls ate an entire bag of craisins.

Dinner: Mapo tofu. Rice.  Broccoli  which was the last fresh veggie besides carrots and cabbage in the house.  Surprisingly it was still not to wilted after almost 3 weeks.

Dessert: Breyers natural vanilla ice cream with homemade hot fudge and bananas.  I caved and let Mr. A have his request because I didn’t buy his present yet.