Doesn’t Continental know you aren’t supposed to microwave frozen pizza? (This was Jacob’s favorite meal though. I should have given him my pizza as well.)
Groceries for a week on a boat
We’re chartering a sailboat from the Moorings for seven days and we had to order all of groceries ahead of time. It was hard to plan all of our needs for a week in an environment we aren’t used to. How much water do you need? How many cookies? What to eat for breakfast? We ended up planning for four meals onboard: cornish game hens, salmon, mahi-mahi and steak. Frank is planning two of them and our friend Barbara is planning the other two. Then we planned to eat most of our breakfasts and lunches on board with lots of snacks and appetizers included. We didn’t skimp on anything and all our food and drinks ended up costing us almost $800 (for five people) from Bobby’s.
We ordered by downloading their spreadsheet, filling out our order, sending it back to them via email and then they sent us a quote. They will deliver it to our boat at noon on Thursday! I’ll let you know how it goes!
Caffeine is not a stimulant
Turns out that coffee in the morning doesn’t make you any more alert than non-coffee drinkers. However, if you are addicted to caffeine and you don’t get your coffee, you will be less alert than those non-coffee drinkers. This University of Bristol study found:
all the drink does is counteract the mild caffeine withdrawal symptoms people are experiencing because they have gone without the stimulant overnight.
And those who drink a caffeinated drink first thing are no more alert than those who never consume one.
So, drink coffee if you like it, but if you are doing it just to help you stay awake or to be more alert in the morning … you’ll need to find something else.
Photo by ° d i °.
No candy bar for me …
I wasn’t meant to have a candy bar today …
- I started with a trip to the break room with one dollar bill and two dimes,
- The machine was no longer taking dollar bills so even though I have free cokes at work, I decided to buy a 50 cent coke,
- Now I had a diet coke, two quarters and two dimes,
- According to the machine a Twix was 70 cents,
- I put in my change, hit the code for a Twix and was informed that the Twix was really 85 cents,
- So I changed my mind and hit the code for Reeces Peanut Butter Cups,
- The peanut butter cups started to come out but got hung up on metal hook,
- I banged the machine with my hip (much more effective than hitting it with your hand) and they came out from under the hook but got stuck on the M&Ms next to them,
- A trip back upstairs proved I had no more change anywhere,
- …
- So I went for a walk instead!
Have you had a similar experience?
Bad Wine & Tasting it
If you are like me, you hate being the one who has to taste the wine because you aren’t really sure what you are supposed to be doing. I know you are only supposed to send it back if it’s bad, not if you don’t like it. But what is bad? Somebody finally wrote an article to help us out, Wines: Bad Wine.
Food and Culture
Historical Fiction – How do medieval-themed restaurants get it wrong? By Mark Schatzker
Here’s an interesting article about what food was really like in the Middle Ages, Historical Fiction – How do medieval-themed restaurants get it wrong? By Mark Schatzker. For anyone who has suffered through one of the modern medieval-themed restaurants, you will be relieved to know that your ancestors did have better taste in food than that.
Crawdad Boil!
We’re having a “crawdad” boil! We have 70 pounds of crawdads! That’s good since we have at least 49 people coming and these are going to be good! I wish my grandmother could be here. She really enjoyed crayfish. She even posted about it in her blog.
Here’s one to give you a sense of scale.