A little on the lighter side, kind of fun but also giving you the chance to assess your kitchen.
KD and a a few members from the CT forum's are hitting the road on a "What's in your kitchen?" tour. They are stopping randomly at homes of other CT forum members. They have just knocked on your front door. A few questions:
1) Are you in your pj's with sleepy eyes and bed-head? In your workout clothes? In your work clothes?
2) You open the door and greet you and then ask if they can check out your fridge/freezer and pantry. Do you invite them in with open arms or head for the hills?
3) What is in your kitchen right now that you would toss out if you had advance warning of their arrival?
4) If they asked to stay for lunch-what do you have on hand that you could whip up for a healthy lunch?
Jill
I have no specific goal(s) right now. I am trying to find the spiritual side of myself that I lost somewhere along the way.
1. Depends on the day, if it's Saturday, that's entirely likely. Other days will depend on whether it's a work day (& time I'm due in), school day, or have other plans.
2. Come on in!
3. Nothing. My kitchen's pretty clean to begin with, and the few "bad things" are planned for.
4. Pasta with homemade meatballs & spinach pesto, veggie (brown) fried rice, grilled chicken on homemade bread, and any number of other options are also possible.
Life is like a roller coaster, with lots of ups and downs, but the curves, spirals, loops and corkscrews are what make life interesting.
Originally posted by jillybean: what is in your kitchen or pantry that you really have to be careful eating or you could end up going way overboard with calories?
1. Chocolate chips. Well, actually I don't have any right now as I finished them off.
I bought a package of choc chips last summer. I generally ONLY use them for baking (and I ONLY bake 6 cookies at a time, so they last a long time). I USUALLY don't "snack" on them or eat them. However, a couple of weeks ago, we were down to about 1/4 cup in the bag and I finished the bag off.
Thus, I don't have any in the house. And I USUALLY don't have to be careful most of the year. Most of the year, I don't really think about them.
But, seeing how perfection is neither posible nor necessary, every now and then, I eat 1/4th cup of them.
2. A loaf of sour dough that my kid bought to make sandwiches. I had a couple of slices that were really good. Then, luckly for me, being a kid... he made a sandwich and left the bag hanging open for about 3 hours... and bread is just very slightly stale and has lost its appeal.
Other foods, like cheese and crackers at the end of the holidays... I just toss, since the snacking will just go too far... not to mention by Jan 3rd... I'm pretty much at my limit for doing scale damage.
I just toss them. Mostly, I don't like being "careful". I don't like being my own food police. I'm just happier if some foods just are not in the house.
Denise
Posts: 9221 | Location: Silicon Valley, CA | Registered: March 17, 2004
what is in your kitchen or pantry that you really have to be careful eating or you could end up going way overboard with calories? Your favorite chocolate? Soda? Chips?
I have diet coke in the downstairs fridge and there is low fat ice cream in the freezer that I drink/eat. There's also organic dark chocolate sauce in the pantry but I think it tastes weird so other than trying it once, I stay away from it.
Dh has a stash of high quality dark chocolate but it's his and I don't touch it (and it doesn't temp me).
Dd has a stash of snacks - tings, cheddar bunnies, cliff jr bars, cookie packs for school lunch and left over chocolate from Easter. Again, it's not mine and I don't touch it. The only exception would be the cheddar bunnies but if I have them it's as a planned for snack.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Instead of what would you toss out in advance of their arrival (because this would be like all-or-nothing thinking and not eating everything in moderation), what is in your kitchen or pantry that you really have to be careful eating or you could end up going way overboard with calories? Your favorite chocolate? Soda? Chips?
Also, I was thinking about question 2. I can't imagine anyone of us "heading for the hills" with our group here! Even if you felt you looked awful, had a fridge full of lard, and 75 lbs of candy on the counter!
Jill
I have no specific goal(s) right now. I am trying to find the spiritual side of myself that I lost somewhere along the way.
I'd be in my workout clothing or in work clothing depending on the day. (Most days I head to the gym after I drop dd.)
Of course I would invited them in!
Not anything I would toss. I do have Nutella in my pantry now- I buy a jar every few months. I have c chips too- need to make cookies for a school event.
If they stayed for lunch, we'd go out to a little locally own sandwich and salad place. I'd rather do that than cook today!
1) Are you in your pj's with sleepy eyes and bed-head? In your workout clothes? In your work clothes?
They'd have to be knocking pretty darned early to catch me in my PJs. I'm "dressed to my shoes" (a FlyLady saying) by 7 a.m. every morning to take my pup for her first potty walk of the day.
2) You open the door and greet you and then ask if they can check out your fridge/freezer and pantry. Do you invite them in with open arms or head for the hills?
I'd definitely invite them in. My pantry and fridge are generally pretty clean except for the 2 pints of fruit sorbet and a little single-serving ice cream cup.
3) What is in your kitchen right now that you would toss out if you had advance warning of their arrival?
Nothing. If each of them can tell me they never eat ice cream or sorbet, they get to throw it out. Otherwise, it stays.
4) If they asked to stay for lunch-what do you have on hand that you could whip up for a healthy lunch?
They can have what I'm having--spicy pulled pork over salad greens with a few tortilla chips and a few dabs of salsa for dressing. Sort of an upgraded taco salad but w/o the ginormous edible bowl.
Posts: 7864 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
1) Are you in your pj's with sleepy eyes and bed-head? In your workout clothes? In your work clothes?
T/W/TH work clothes, M/F workout clothes
2) You open the door and greet you and then ask if they can check out your fridge/freezer and pantry. Do you invite them in with open arms or head for the hills?
I have nothing to hide including the sweets that are incorporated into my meal plans
3) What is in your kitchen right now that you would toss out if you had advance warning of their arrival?
Nothing
4) If they asked to stay for lunch-what do you have on hand that you could whip up for a healthy lunch?
I could make a great salad with avocado, tuna and chick peas.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
1.)I would rather be in my pj's, but instead I am freshly showered, having just returned from an hour of water aerobics.
2.)I would welcome everyone and ask them to ignore the underwear on the bathroom floor. The kitchen isn't too bad since I haven't been to the grocery in two weeks, there isn't much to eat. Although breakfast this morning was a leftover slice of pizza and a sugar free jello cup. The pantry and the freezer look great!
3.) I might toss the box of See's candy that is leftover from Christmas. I didn't like them, and S isn't eating them. I suppose I should just toss them now. There are a fair amount of chips above the fridge, but at least 7/8th of them are in flavors that I don't like and am not tempted to eat.
4.) My favorite empty fridge lunch is curried tuna salad with triscuits or melba toast crackers, some carrot sticks or snap peas, and a piece of fruit. Today it would have to be an orange or a grapefruit, cause that's all I've got left.
