Good morning!
Here are some eats from yesterday”¦ and then I have some fun “food crimes” to talk about!
Breakfast: Oatmeal + a fried egg + iced coffee with eggnog.
Lunch: Chunked chicken breast with roasted potatoes, steamed spinach, and buffalo sauce.
Snack: Marylou’s almond cookie coffee + Greek yogurt and granola.
Dinner: Cheeseburger Casserole (it was wicked good) + wine.
So, Quinn and I had a rough day yesterday. He’s teething and has a nasty cold, so he was cranky and unhappy for most of the day. Poor guy. However, at one point in the afternoon, Murphy jumped up on the couch behind him, so, totally unexpected, Quinn started to smile. It was absolutely adorable, and he kept turning around to look at Murphy and smiled at him every time. Too cute.
Quinn really loves this little furball.
Ok, time for some “food crimes”!
I saw an article in this month’s issue of Parents and thought some of these kid “food crimes” would make a fun post. Feel free to play along and fess up to your “meals misdemeanors” in the comment section below. I made note of which ones I am guilty of!
- Stalking: Munching only the tippy tops of broccoli spears. GUILTY (on occasion)
- Saucetitution: Cheapening a good steak by dipping it in ketchup before consumption. GUILTY. I love steak with BBQ sauce.
- Loafing: Refusing to eat a sandwich with crusts on it. NOT GUILTY. The crusts are the best part!
- Embezzlemint: Plunging a greedy hand into the candy dish on the counter at the local diner and walking out with ten customers’ worth of breath fresheners. NOT GUILTY. Those things actually skeeve me out!
- Snacketeering: Demanding Skittles in return for behaving. GUILTY. On Saturday, I asked Mal to get me Marylou’s since I woke up with Quinn at 4:30 AM.
- Cereal Killing: Digging through every box of cereal in the house and removing all the marshmallow bits and prizes, dooming the family to weeks of dull flakes at breakfast. GUILTY (sometimes)
- Patty Larceny: Eating the burger, not the lettuce, tomato, or multigrain bun that would “healthy up” dinner. NOT GUILTY. I’m not a picky eater and hate wasting food.
- Dessertion: Claiming to be full when the entrée is served””and mysteriously hungry when the ice cream comes out. GUILTY! So, so guilty.
Question of the Day
What are your food crimes?
P.S. Do you love eggnog as much as I do? Check out my newest recipe post: How to Make Your Own Lower-Calorie Eggnog Latte!
48 Comments
Definitely Snacketeering since Mitchell was born. I never had a pregnancy craving or asked for anything until now. I agree, the lack of sleep/early mornings have me justifying a second round of coffee…and a cookie.
@Brynn: Yes!! I’m the same. Ate totally fine during pregnancy and now completely ravenous at all times!
I have a huge weakness for cookie dough and batter when baking treats! I have even taken cookies out of the oven way early to eat! I try to have a quick taste of batter or dough then fill the bowl with water fast to keep me from sticking my whole face in the bowl! haha
Oh my gosh I’m so guilty of party larceny because I’m paleo and keto so I don’t eat anything else but the burger itself. And I’m a cereal killer with my trail mix. I take the nuts and leave!
Like so… http://thefitty.tumblr.com/post/105318639340/how-i-eat-trail-mix-how-ill-ever-eat-trail
My kids are guilty of stalking and dessertion for sure! My husband is way guilty of cereal killing, or really taking the good stuff out of anything in a package and covering up the evidence. Cookie dough ice cream is his specialty 🙂
Totally guilty of stalking!! Not so much with broccoli, but more so with asparagus! I love the tips and could eat them for days, but the harder stalk part? Um, no thanks. I once ate all the tips and left the stalks when we went to dinner at my dad’s….he got so mad. Hasn’t let me forget it ,and I’m never first when the asparagus is passed anymore 🙂
Me too! Haha!
My boyfriend always takes off all his veggies from his burger. Which is fine by me because I take them and get double!
So so guilty of Dessertion
I’m a cereal killer for sure! I always pick out the best pieces and leave the rest, hehe!
Dessertion!! When I was younger (and heavier) it was a very frequent thing. My parents always joked I had two stomachs, one just for dessert. It’s gotten better as I’ve gotten older, but sometimes my stomach will somehow make just enough room. Stretchy pants help too.
cheeseburger casserole!? well that sounds fantastic!
Dessertion most definitely! I always tell my boyfriend I can’t either anyother bite and then go hunt down chocolate or dessert.
I’m totally guilty of eating things even though I actually am completely full. Which I’m not sure is so much a crime but a lack of self restraint…
I’m guilty of cereal killing! I do the same thing to trail mix as well. Dessertation is another food crime, especially during the holidays. We’ll have our big Christmas Eve meal and then I’m bugging everyone about when it’s time for dessert!
Definitely snacketeering! I tell my husband all the time that because I did X, we should get ice cream/froyo/brownies. It usually works.
I agree that the candy dishes at restaurants are kinda gross. If they are individually wrapped, then I might grab one, but even that would be a rare occurrence.
Speaking of Mary Lou’s, too bad you weren’t at this location to be the lucky recipient of $100.00 from an anonymous donor – http://www.newsmax.com/thewire/man-hands-out-100/2014/12/16/id/613399/
That’s awesome! 😄
I can’t wait to try the eggnog latte! YUM. My biggest food crime would be eating food at the grocery store while I shop (oops!). Usually grapes or some kind of bagged snack like chips! Also I dominate the nut butter at our house, so my poor husband barely gets any.
I’m actually a cookie monster. Cookie > cupcake any day!
Dessertion – I have a deal with my husband that we can get ice cream on the weekends. It’s my treat that I look forward too – but then my “weekends” consists of Friday, Saturday and Sunday! If its a holiday weekend well that’s a bonus because I throw Monday in to my “weekend” too! Gah! I can’t stop! I love ice cream!
I am guilty of Snackateering…Im pregnant so all I have to say to my husband is I want chocholate and he goes to WaWa and gets me something delicious. I have to fess up and say I am also very guilty of bribing my two year old with chochlate chips to get him dressed in the morning and out the house on time….he only gets like three at a time but still I feel really guilty …sometimes haha.
That’s hilarious. I think I’m most guilty of inhaling my food before my fiance even sits down. It’s scary how fast I can eat.
So fun! I am guilty of almost all those things especailly saucetitution, embezzlemint (but only when they are wrapped hardy sucky candies) and dessertion.
haha, dessertion!! I love it! My family is soo soooo guilty of this one! But like my grandma says – there’s always room for ice cream because it just melts and fills all the nooks and crannies in your stomach. 😉 lol
So fun! I am guilty of almost all those things especially saucetitution, embezzlemint (but only when they are wrapped hardy sucky candies) and dessertion.
I’m totally with you on being skeeved out by the community mints or candies. Yuck!
I am so guilty of dessertion! I always have room for dessert! Another crime I am guilty of is picking out all my favorites from the trail mix (chocolate, cashews and raisins) and leaving a container full of peanuts and the not quite as yummy stuff!
That is too cute about Murphy and Quinn. I hope Quinn feels better soon!
That almond cookie coffee. GAHH want!
And my dad is guilty of the “embezzlemint”, I feel like he always takes as many as he can. I’ll have to mention this term to him;)
This is so funny — I was a “cereal killer” for halloween my senior year of college. I wore all black and taped a ton of cereal boxes to myself and went around campus posing menacingly with my weapon — a giant spoon. Hahaha I love cereal! I also surprisingly get hungry again when the dessert comes out…
I am SO guilty of Dessertion!!!
I’m guilty of Dessertion like whoa!!
And saucetuition too-I love me some ketchup on grilled chicken! 🙂
I just get “hangry” where i’m so angry i haven’t had a chance to eat that i’ll binge on whatever i get my hands on and it’s usually not healthy and well balanced =)
My husband eats all the good stuff out of bags of trail mix. That’s a major crime. Trailmixery perhaps?
Haha! I’m 100% guilty of Trailmixery!
that picture of quinn smiling at murphy is adorable! what a cute thing to capture 🙂 and those food crimes are hilarious! I am definitely guilty of snacketeering, hahah!
My food crime would be “disturbing the pieces”: breaking off halves or thirds of things instead of eating whole servings. My entire family does it, and we tell ourselves that cutting things releases energy and therefore lowers your caloric consumption. We also like to say that there’s always room in the dessert stomach!
Haha!
Those are hilarious!!! If there’s a name for “eating before dinner and ruining my appetite”, that’s one I’m for sure guilty of.
I am most definitely guilty of embezzlemint! My friends describe me as an old lady in young person’s clothing as I always take massive handfuls of mints (this is in part because my Dad always used to bring back big handfuls of mints when he went away on business trips and told me that was my present).
I live a life of Saucetitution. I’m always dunking sushi in way too much soy sauce or covering everything in Ranch.
I am totally guilty of some of these! I am all about the marshmallows in my cereal 🙂
I totally snacketeer!!
Totally guilty of sauctitution and dessertification!!! And not ashamed. Give me that A1 for my steak!
Definitely the dessert one! Franks hot sauce…chicken and eggs given life in a few dashes! Love it!
I am occasionally guilty of desertion and always guilty of the trailmixery mentioned above!
So fun! I’m definitely guilty of dessertion (I totally have a stomach that’s reserved specifically for dessert) and saucetitution (barbecue sauce/mustard/tons of chipotle Tabasco make anything better).