Hurricane’s coming this weekend. First thought—what to eat?
I have a freezer full of Weight Watcher’s ice cream. What if we lose power? Between the “we-must-eat-all-the-ice-cream-before-it-melts” catastrophe and the fact that the height of the hurricane will pass through at the very moment I am supposed to be stepping on the scale at the Weight Watchers meeting, this promises to be a perfect storm of epic proportions.
I hope I have enough to eat in the house. Let’s see…I have cans of olives and bags of almonds from when I was doing the Mediterranean diet. There’s the 20 pound sack of rice from when I was doing the Rice Diet. I have cayenne pepper – what was that one? Baby food (pretended it was for the nephews, but in truth – it seemed so sane to use baby food for snacks). Then of course, there are some Zone Bars and Atkins Bars – putrid, putrid, putrid. I have dried fruits aplenty from the raw food diet. Yep, they’re still dried. A package of instant Crème Brulee? What’s that doing there? Ah yes – “French Women Don’t Get Fat.” Three Slim-Fast shake cans from the 1990s.
Hmmm, something is there—in the back of the cabinet—behind the acai berry supplements and chocolate-raspberry stevia extract. It’s a bittersweet chocolate bar. What the heck? I was never on the chocolate diet! The ingredients are rich and pure – and NORMAL—no sorbitol, sucralose, or aspartame. Oh wait… the wrapper says “In Case of Emergency—Break Here.” Whew. All Set. Time to hunker down.
schmeightschmatchers 
You’ve got me smiling again – broadly this time. Better hurry up and get that ice cream down before it melts on Sunday…..
Thanks! What better excuse, right?
You crack me up..that reminds me: hurricane weather means time to crack open the frozen Milky Way bars with that hammer in the kitchen drawer
Glad you have your food priorities in order. Don’t get hurricanes much in my area, but just in case I’ve laid up a store of Hershey almond bars (nuts for protein, no need to refrigerate), Snickers, (same reasoning), water. I’m good to go. The Medicare Mom.
My first thought was the ice cream too! Stay safe.
Ivy – you have your priorities so straight! Isn’t it amazing the diets we’ve tried? I’m surprised you didn’t find an old cabbage there somewhere…