Tales from the Tourist Trap

It's not long so I wont bother with a cut. My Grocery store is awful. For a place that's always busy the the stuff never seems fresh. The have really limited produce and what there is blah! I've gootten used to checking the date on everything before I put it in my cart and buying most of the veggies I eat frozen.{even then I've had to deal with stuff that looks like it's been thawed and refrozen}

There are problems with stuff you wouldn't think of too, I wanted to make oatmeal coookies so I looked at bagged nots in the produce area all of them had a experation date of Octber last year. So I bypassed them and picked up a thing of raisins I couldn't find the date on them but how can a raisin get old? So they went in my cart. When I opened them they were really hard and dryer than than they should've been. I found the date and the darn things expired in 2004! I eating them isn't going to kill me but they won't add a bit of flavor to the cookies either.

Do other areas have this problem? Is it the time of year and/or the gas prices? The only other store always looks dirty and has even less as far as produce.
I've seen places on-line to get produce. Anyone use them? What do you think they seem pretty expensive.

Cheer me up go read the fic I posted yesterday.

Feeling a little better today/ I cleaned out the fridge and did the big pantry shopping. It's was a great time to start a diet I was even out of things like pasra and catsup. When I handed over my card I had to remind myself that most of the stuff will last me a month or more [laundry soap, dog food, ect] and I should only have to go back in a week for the fresh veggies and soy milk. I had a list and I still forgot stuff.

I made myself a greek salad for supper. So far I've had no problem staying within 1500 calories a day, I mean I don't feel hungry. It is hard paying attention to serving sizes.When I got the stuff home I portioned out the meat and I put a reminder of serving sizes of other food groups on the fridge so I wont make too much. It might be easier to make extra and save for lunches and stuff but I would rather not temp myself.

I didn't write any today. Sorry guys I wore myself out shopping and cleaning.

I've got laundry and dishes to do but right now I so tired and sore from PT that's just not gonna happen . [ponders being naked] well the laundry will get done sometime tonight.

Speaking of the scariness of me naked I got the No Fad Diet book today it recomends keeping a food journal. I'll probably do that privately on my LJ. I need to eventually lose 50 lbs. So how do y'all feel about my talking diet here? I wouldn't want to bore you with calorie counts or weight ins but would you be interested in hearing my progress or non-progress?