So far so good — Friday at the Chinese restaurant went well, I only had what I had planned to eat and I didn’t get hungry for the rest of the day and night. Later in the evening we even had enough energy to go back out and look for the salad shooter and browse the recumbant bikes (couldn’t find any in the stores we went to before lunch). I wrote down a bit of info on the bikes to look up, but the store only had two. No salad shooters in sight after three stores, but we did decide to get a big crock pot (6 qt) and a large 2 tier food steamer — so we can cook easily and healthy. I’m very excited. A salad shooter is small enough I can order online. Eventually I also want to get a food saver system (sucks the air out of the bags and keeps food fresh a lot longer).

Saturday Mama Kelly and I had a great day talking and laughing. Starting next spring we hope to start cooking together when we have our monthly visits. We can make large quantities of food and freeze it and have ready made dinners to heat and serve or pop in the crockpot and cook all day ready hot and fresh in the evening. We need to focus on getting our junk cleared out and houses a bit more organized, and get through the holidays and winter first. And that gives us time to plan out some recipes and shopping lists too. I plan to look into getting a share at an organic farm near me - lots of fruits and veggies every week. Between our two families we can easily use a share (whereas just for the three of us it would be way too much). I can freeze some and I wouldn’t mind the drive to see Mama Kelly again to drop off fresh produce.

I allowed myself a small treat, 1/2 cup of nonfat soft ice cream (shop says it is 60 calories), since we unexpectedly made a run to Jersey Freeze. Since my calories for the day were 830, adding 60 wasn’t too bad.

Today I think will be ok. I woke up hungry, but coffee seems to have gotten the hunder under control. It’s too early to eat anything, later I will have a piece of fruit and for lunch a large cucumber, and then dinner a subway sandwich (no cheese, no dressing).

I wish I had more time to spend with Mama Kelly, but I have to leave early today to have time to do laundry, grocery shopping, and get ready for the concert tonight. At least we have the date for our next visit all ready set in Sept.

One day at time!

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