Well, I’m posting, which means we did NOT fall into a meat-sugar-caffeine induced coma. Though…we tried. Really.
Breakfast: I’ll just let the picture tell its thousand words.
That’s biscuits, sausage, coffee (decaf) w/caramel syrup & some almond milk, and yes….CUPCAKES. Half of each of the cupcakes that I brought home & froze after Amy’s wedding shower. Because…I mean…CUPCAKES.
Then we headed over to the Sertoma Chili Cookoff to sling some tasty steak & sausage chili!
(We end up next to the Toxic Chili guys like, every year.)
We never win, but it’s still fun, and for a good cause. After our shift was up, we headed out and tasted some chili!
(Oh…and beer, of course. PS—the first person to figure out the clothespin thing was BRILLIANT.)
After we’d filled out still shrunken bellies with chili (which only took about 15 booths, or about 2.5 total cups), we wandered about to check out all the booths:
(Elks Lodge is on the left—they place pretty high every year. Good stuff. Waffle House…ehh, I was too afraid it would be ACTUAL Waffle House chili to try it.)
Then we headed over to The Scoop to take advantage of the awesome weather and pick up some trash on our Adopt-A-Street stretch! With all the snow & cold weather, we haven’t been able to get out there in a few months, and it’s…well…always an interesting experience. We tend to find a lot of the usual: empty beer cans & 50 mL bottles, fountain soda cups, random junk mail & newspapers… and then there’s the just plain sad ‘n nasty: socks, a couple syringes (needles gone), a tampon applicator (*gags* WHO does that on the side of the road???)…. and then there’s the “WTF?”
Half-full bottle of E&J, and a TOILET SEAT. (We also found a full set of keys, but that doesn’t beat toilet seat. PS—Jo… I’m sorry my hubs is not wearing gloves. I was, just FYI. But I PROMISE he washed his hands as soon as we got back to the shop.)
After the trash pickup, we headed home so I could pack, since I leave for Louisiana tomorrow:
And then…what to eat for dinner? With so much chili in our bellies, we weren’t really that hungry, so we snacked a bit (I had a few sweet pickles), and…well… we just HAD to have some ice cream! *grins sheepishly*
Blue Bunny “Perfectly Peppermint” + hot fudge.
So..while we managed to eat pretty much EVERYTHING that was forboden on the Daniel Fast (white flour, meat, caffeine, dairy, sugar, alcohol), we actually still only took in about 1600 calories. And with all the walking around and trash pickup, we burned off most of those. Not too bad. Just gotta remember—if you want to eat the garbage, gotta be willing to work it off.
How do I feel? Well…like not getting up off the couch for a while. But that’s partly because my calves are still burning from our trash pickup adventure (our stretch of road is about 1.8 miles round trip & has some steep slopes).
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