Hey ya’ll. Welcome to the very real world of my stomachs. If you frequently loiter around this place, you know it’s been a little since I talked about that deep, dark realm where the battle to make good food choices is waged daily.
What better way to show you how I do battle on The Field of Stomachs than by giving you some real life examples of a day in the life:
Say what now? I ate breakfast 2 hours ago, but now I’m hungry again? I do my best eat well in the morning to combat unscheduled hunger. But there goes a stomach for ya — always begging like a banshee for more food when it’s not time yet.
On this particular day, my stomachs tried to claim hungry, but I was skeptical about the validity of that claim. Instead of shoving 2nd breakfast into my jaws, I grabbed a fancy flower cup and began to gulp waters. PADDOW!! The hunger disappeared right away. I was able to carry on until lunch without any unnecessary snacking. 
Conclusion: Either the water did the trick or the flowered cup is real magical ‘n stuff. Haven’t figured it out yet.
Yup. You know how people are. You’re on a roll with good food choices, but here they come bringing you muffins and other high calorie foodstuffs. This situation was a blind-sider. Totally caught me off guard. As you can see from the pic, I did start eating the muffin. But two bites in, I decided the muffin just wasn’t worth it. I’d rather postpone my greediness to gnaw on whole pumpkin pies or an entire sheet cake eaten at the perfectly appointed time.
Instead of muffins and foods of that sort, my current go-to snack to manage the afternoon sweet tooth is a lightly toasted Eggo smathered in local raw honey. Instant satisfaction, baby! This snack is so tasty. It gives the illusion of being greedy but you’re really not. The treat also doubles as a sophisticated evening snack to bring about the same wonderful bliss without bamboozling your fitness.
Honey is so dang good for you. The Eggo merely serves as a low-calorie vehicle by which to ingest the sweetness.
Nothing makes me more irritable than going to bed hungry or waking up in the middle of the night with a growling stomach. No longer will I force the hubs to cook me a 3-course meal at 11pm. That’s why I keep emergency foodstuffs at the bedside. A little nibbling on some crackers with a gulp of water is pretty handy for telling the stomach to SHUT THE HELL UP! Crackers are ideal because they’re a direct threat to your bed/covers if you eat too many. With every bite you take, it increases the chance you’ll be sleeping in a pile of crumbs. This is my motivation for keeping the cracker nibbling to a minimum. ((snore))
These are just few of the ways I do warfare. I don’t win every single battle, but I’ve trained myself to be on helluva warrior anyway. I don’t get down on myself about the defeats, because seriously: Can anyone ever win ‘em all? All the time?
Disclaimer: I ate ice cream during the writing of this blog post. O_o
If you’re my fellow warrior, give me a shout out in the comments. BOOM!
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I’m going to skip all the fancy introductions and get right to the point: Spinach & Kale Better Chips are THE MOST tastiest, THE MOST heartiest, THE MOST satisfying. Made with corn masa and infused with bits of spinach & kale so large, I really can’t call them “bits”. Perhaps “veggie bits on steroids” is a better way to describe it. Your stomach’s life will be complete only after you bite into one and try it for yourself. All other tortilla chips are inferior. I declare this to be fact. If you see these in the store, pick up one bag for yourself and 15 bags for me. I’m not ashamed to admit I hid The Better Chip bag from the greedy family to consume the chips in solitude. If hiding the bag is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Dammit! This milk is expensive — almost $5 for a 1/2 gallon — but since GMO-infested milk was next on my list to eliminate from my home, I had to make that move towards the Organic Valley. Their milk is both organic and non-GMO. It’s sourced from a co-op of family farmers, NOT from a big corporation. We still do almond milk, which is slightly cheaper, yet regular milk has its place in our kitchen.
Is She Greedy? Or Is She Hungry?