We are practically out the door for the UP. The car is loaded with camping equipment, but we’ve decided not to take the bicycles this trip. I guess we’ll stick with hiking and fishing. And we’ve decided to change the small matter of our eating habits this week. On our 4-hour drive to and from Indiana on Friday we consumed the most God-awful junk food…on the way there we ate Long John Silver’s lobster bites (gross) and hush puppies (yummy). On the way home I ate a Dairy Queen hamburger, french fries, Blizzard, and a diet Coke; Deb ate a chili cheese dog and a vanilla ice cream cone dipped in chocolate sauce. Delicious, but sort of sickening, too, you know.
So, yesterday Deb headed off to Fresh Market and made some wiser choices for us. This is what she chose as car food for today:
- a large bag of Movie Theater Popcorn (does this surprise you, Reader? Not if you know Deb. This woman thinks about popcorn more than anyone I’ve ever met)
- vegetable chips (this does not sound good to me. And it looks odd)
- 100% freeze-dried pears called “Crispy Pears”
- a little bitty bag of fresh trail mix including all the most wonderful nuts and dried fruits
- a small bag of baby carrots
- grapes
- 2 plums
- 3 bananas
- yogurt
- a fresh loaf of multi-grain bread (gorgeous! can’t wait!)
- 1/4 lb. hard salami (love it)
- 1/4 lb. Havarti cheese
- 1/2 lb. smoked cheddar (I can smell it from here)
- 4 bottles of fruit punch Vitaminwater
We’re off to a good start, don’t you agree? Now, I’ll have my iPhone with me, but as you can imagine, I’m not at all sure we’ll have any internet or AT&T access in the UP, so don’t expect any posts this week. I may surprise you with a line or two or a photograph, but don’t count on it. We’ll be home next Saturday fresher and healthier and sweeter.
Not Alice 