Sunday, December 22, 2019

SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!

That's the sound of my food intake coming to a screeching halt!!!  It was all fun and games eating those chocolate covered ritz crackers, the bakery cookies and the marshmallows, until I stepped on the scales.  I'm afraid I said some BAD words.  Hopefully Santa wasn't listening.

It didn't help that I fell for the old taste testing scam at Costco.  Every year at this time they have tamales.  They are SO good with one tiny bite!  Take them home and try to eat a whole one and you are in deep trouble!  It was the thought of LIMITED TIME ONLY for those cheese and green chili ones (my favorite) that snagged me.

Unfortunately, the one I heated up at home after buying 24 of them in a package, wasn't cooked through.  I nuked it twice.  It turned out to be a gummy mess.  Woohoo ... only 23 more to eat.

I also got sucked in by the crab!  I haven't had any in years, since traveling the Oregon coast.  I was so excited, I even forgot to take a before picture.  I quickly cleaned it and stuffed it in the freezer, awaiting Christmas dinner.  Maybe just a quick taste.  

I'm a crab snob.  My ex-father-in-law was a crab fisherman.  We had mountains of crab, cooked to perfection.  This one seems to have been cooked to perfection TWICE.  It's okay though, all that butter I'm going to drench it in should help considerably.
Here's another SCREECH I received on the porch.  Already feeling bad from eating all those cookies and marshmallows, I figured it couldn't get any worse if I ate some of these beauties.  Then I read the warning label on the box.

This may just be a California thing, but P65 requires labels warning of chemicals in products that may cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm.  What chemicals?  Who in the world is going to eat these after reading THAT!!
Aren't they pretty?  Tasty little morsels of cancer.  Good grief Charlie Brown!!!
And so as I sorted through all the cookies and candy I had in the fridge, I sadly placed them all in a box for donation.  That darn scale scared me to death when it read I had put FOUR pounds back on in a short two weeks.  With Christmas, New Years and an RV rally coming up, I'm going to be in trouble big time if I don't stop eating sweets!!

The only thing I kept were these amazing marshmallows.  I cut them into thirds, just like that steak.
So today, I'm off to a children's Christmas play put on at a very small local church.  I met the entire family, including the Pastor, at the Pumpkin Patch.  The kids are all amazingly polite, helpful and did absolutely everything I asked.  How could I turn them down?  And what better place to donate all those goodies.  They did mention their play would be "different".  This should be an interesting date.



12 comments:

  1. Nancy, Nancy you are too funny. You and Bill will have to start running together to drop some pounds. His weight is going back up for some reason.
    Crazy about the label on the box but good choice not to eat them.

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    1. It took me over ten years to get that weight off. I'm certainly going to fight it every inch of the way!!

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  2. Costco will let you return the tamales if you don't like them.Hard to find good ones in stores.

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    1. Really? I had no idea they would do that. I just might return them because I don't think they will be eaten in my house.

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  3. The Scales don't Lie but those Warning Labels do. Things are tested by injecting Rats with Mega-Doses of substances or ingredients more then a Human could ingest in their lifetime. Even if those don't cause any problems because they are ingested they are marked as "May Cause". As for the Scales time to take the dogs for walks that they need as well.
    Be Safe and Enjoy the Christmas Play.

    It's about time.

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    1. Dog walks .... that's a good idea. I'm curious just what they would put in petits fours that "might" cause cancer. Maybe it's the red dye in the frosting.

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  4. I must say I have seen everything now. Has California gone too far? Are the same labels on artificial sweeteners, and other cured meats which may contain nitrates? Will the labels appear on alcohol in the future? Quite the eye opener!

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    1. Hmmmm that's an interesting question Peter. I don't think those warnings are on ANY of the things you mentioned.

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  5. You had us both laughing once again! Those labels are ridiculous as is California! ( We are both original CA people) but left as soon as we retired. I'm afraid to get on my scales until 2 weeks after Christmas haha. I was cooking today and told Ken "I think I've gained 5 pounds just smelling this food"..Can't wait to hear about the play :)

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    1. You were smart to leave. They are now trying to raise property tax above the 1% cap.

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  6. California has some strange rules but then I guess you probably are aware of that...:) Looking forward to hearing about the play.

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    1. Yes they do have weird rules ... and I'm getting closer to leaving every day.

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