Thursday, May 20, 2010

An Empty Fridge is an Invitation to Sin

Well, it's definitely an invitation to eat out.

A lot.

And I've been fighting against that temptation.

I haven't been able to get to the grocery store for over a week, and my daily ration of highly-processsed, sodium-laden frozen entrees and breakfast muffins have been thoroughly depleted.  (Sounds delectable, doesn't it?)

I am a creature of habit, and I do not do all that well when the fridge is empty.
Morning breakfast usually consists of a Weight Watchers English muffin (4 points), and 1 cup of frozen fruit (1 point) with 3/4 cup Vanilla Weight Watchers yogurt (1 points).

Morning snack is usually a chocolate Vitatop (1 point) and/or a banana (2 points).

Lunch is some sort of entree, either Weight Watchers (I really should start buying stock in this company), Healthy Choice, or Lean Cuisine (somewhere between 4 - 7 points), then some frozen Just for One veggies (1 point), and something chocolatey such as a pudding snack or a Vitabrownie (1 point).

That's breakfast and lunch, and you can see that I rely very heavily on frozen foods.  Because I rarely cook dinner for myself anymore, I don't usually have leftovers to bring for my lunches.  (Leftover soggy Cheerios and popcorn really aren't that great.)

So today when I no longer had ANY of those frozen goods populating my fridge, I was a little amiss about what to do.

Should I stop by Sonic?
McDonald's?
Burger King?

I decided to go to the store.

I dropped Lily at the babysitters and made a mad dash to Hy-Vee (their organic section is pretty rocking, and that's where I get my Vitabrownies and Vitamuffins).

I commandeered the salad bar and loaded up 2 containers, one salad, one fruit, for lunch and breakfast, and picked up a few other things to keep my tummy happy.

And I felt proud of myself for having made that decision.
Sonic is convenient.
And yummy.
But also fat and calorie-laden.

So yea for me for just saying no to fast food, and saying yes to good healthy food instead.

1 comment:

Erin Welch said...

This is me cheering: cheer! cheer! cheer! Just think of all the grease you avoided by skipping Sonic!