Actually, this is not all of it. The plate used to be full. We ate some (a lot) for lunch.
Thanks to the people at Village Inn, we also ended up with this the other night:
This plate used to be full, too.
Why did they have to have one pie left? Why? This is, as Zack would say, THE best pie in the world. I'm not sure what's in it exactly. Dark chocolate cookies, dark chocolate mousse, chocolate whipped cream, a layer of chocolatey goodness that shall be unnamed, and chocolate sprinkles. It's called the European Truffle pie and is thankfully only around once a year.
What I'm getting at is that we eat treats. We like treats. We buy them or make them often. We are addicted to treats. Mostly chocolate ones. And cookie ones. And doughnut ones. And cake ones. And, in Zack's case, ice creamy ones.
So last night Zack suggested we do something about it. He said we should put healthy snacks in little 'snack sized' baggies that are easily accessible for to eat. So today, on my FIRST day of summer break, I bought LOADS of healthy snacks and put them in little baggies. We will now have snacks to last A LIFETIME!! MWAAAA HAAHA HA HA!!!
But really, we have a ton of snacks.
We have these:
First of all, I know what you're thinking. That my chicken basket is awesome. It's a chicken AND it's a basket! A chicken-basket! But focus. Inside the brilliant chicken basket are healthy snacks! Apples, oranges, dried fruit, nuts, trail mixes of all kinds, pretzels, and even sunflower seeds. And they're all in little snack-sized pouches. And inside the pantry there's a box full of those same snacks so we can replenish the healthy chicken. There's also a note mentioning the snacks that are hiding in the fridge:
Carrots, peppers, yogurt and string cheese.
Honestly, it's so healthy in there I'm starting to feel sick. When Zack came home and found the snacks he was very excited. His words were "This stuff looks so good to me! And it's good FOR me! ...most of it. We are so going to skinny-up!" He's never used the term "skinny-up" before. I think what he means is "we will be more healthy now".
But honestly, after making all those snack bags, all I really want are some potato chips and cottage cheese (don't knock it 'til you've tried it) and the rest of those peanut butter fingers. (Keep 'em coming anonymous family that lives in grandma's old house! We love them! We'll eat all your leftover goodness!)
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I don't know if the rest of you can actually HEAR Carrie saying these phrases, but I hope you can. It makes it that much more fun to read :o)
I just wanted to add that the fate of the European Truffle Pie is certain. It will be eaten. Likely in a couple more days. The peanut butter squares have no hope of making it through the night. So what I'm saying is that we're not swearing off "fatten-up" snacks. We're just hoping to dilute the fatty snacks with skinny snacks in hopes of staying average. Although the healthy snacks Carrie got are so well presented and look so tasty, I may just forget about the other kind. And by forget I mean not think about AS often :o)
Youza come to my house and skinny up my fridge? Then I can say that my most awesome family, of which shall remain anonymous that lives in WX just west of my other awesome family, has totally solutioned my problem of finding quick healthy snacks. I totally need a chickenified basket!
What say we swap? You give us the peanut-buttery chocolatey goods and we give you all our healthy crap. I want sugar!
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