Grocery Trip! (Day 8)

{Written by Emily and Jeremy}

Subway, Shopping and Studying…oh, my! We hope all of you are having a good Halloween. While it is a momentus occasion, especially for children who love the prospect of free candy from every house on their on their block, for college students, it’s an excuse to find out how much alcohol they can consume before passing out in their pirate/wench costume. For us, however, Halloween looks quite different…

For example, as we are typing this, we are listening to the Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters station on Pandora and there is not candy in sight. Jeremy has midterms to finish grading and Emily is drowning in reading (as usual). So while others are off partying, we will be here being our old, curmudgeonly selves. But all hope is not lost…

The peak of our excitement today was a downtown trip. We decided that we were going to treat ourselves to Subway for lunch, since their meal options are healthier than Burger King, Pizza or any other unholy options, all of which have crossed Jeremy’s mind in the last week. At subway we each ordered a footlong turkey breast sandwich with all of the fixin’s although you would think by the service that we got that they were serving time. After our lunch, we went to Borders and did a little perusing (every downtown trip must include a visit to Borders). Emily became obsessed with a book about puppies, while Jeremy absorbed himself into the anime/manga section. After the Borders trip, we went to CVS pharmacy for the scariest part of our day (it is Halloween after all) where we horrified each other by examining the nutritional info on all of our favorite candies. A single milk-chocolate candy bar was 1,000 calories! Many of these candy manufacturers, apparently expect their customers to promply divide their candy bar into 3 1/2 equal pieces and share them with friends, who would of course be on hand to help split a four inch candy bar. While at CVS, in proper ghetto fashion, we craftily removed a scale from the box, and weighed ourselves. Much to Jeremy’s horror, he weights 248 lbs, nearly 20 lbs heavier than he though . Emily, however, was pleasantly surprised that she weights only 210 lbs, rather than 220 lbs. Saddened, but not broken, we moved onto Safeway to do our grocery shopping…

Last night we painstakingly developed a menu for the week and drew up a grocery list based on the menu. We both agree that this is much more effective than blindly going into the store, holding out our arms and running down each aisle and randomly grabbing every other item off of the shelves (“Hon, did you buy this banana baby food?”). The grand total was roughly $67 which is not bad to feed two people for a week, especially considering that our usualy food budget is $50-$75 a week per person. We managed to buy plenty of vegetables, lots of fruit, some essentials and a few healthy treats that will help us stay committed (We got fudge pops!). We also picked up some fish fillets which coincidentally leads me to….

Dinner! For dinner tonight, Jeremy and I had three fish fillets each, with a large side salad (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, teeny-tiney bit o’ cheese, and ranch dressing). The meal was surprisingly satisfying and delicious. Perhaps, because it was so satisfying and delicious, Emily feels guilty for eating it, but it really wasn’t bad. The entire dinner was roughly 600 calories, which fit nicely into our daily goal.

So, that was our spooky Halloween day. Hope everyone has fun and is safe!!

On the path to losing more than our minds…

 

J&E

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