Category: Food


Perkins Restaurant

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April 18, 2012

Ever since we moved here I’ve tried to get my husband to try the Perkins Restaurant with me. I’ve never eaten at one, and I like trying out new places to eat. Unfortunately my husband resists trying anything new. He has trouble adjusting to change. Sometimes I wonder what in the world happened in his childhood that traumatized him so much that he has such a challenge with that!

Anyway, today my mother asked me to go with her to a doctor’s appointment to take notes about what the doctor said. I did go with her (and it’s a good thing I did, there were a lot of notes to take!) and on the way home she asked me if I had ever eaten at a Perkins restaurant. I told her that I had not, but have always wanted to try one. So, we ate at Perkins! The food was good, the wait staff was very friendly and helpful, and we brought a freshly baked cherry pie home with us to share with my hubby. I hope to go back there and eat there again in the future. It was a good experience.

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Last minute Easter dinner

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April 9, 2012

I have made it very clear to my family over the past several months that I was going to be too busy to host Easter dinner at my house this year. I was really in hopes that someone else in this big extended family would invite us to their house for Easter dinner. But no, no one invited us at all. So a couple of days before Easter I went to the grocery store and bought a small ham, with the intention of having a small two to four people dinner at my place.

Wouldn’t you know it that the night before Easter several members of my family called me up and asked me what they were supposed to bring to the Easter dinner that they were SURE I was holding! After all, I’ve held it every year for the past five years, of course I would have it this year too!

Can you say EEK! Well, the house was not decorated for any festivities at all; it wasn’t even cleaned “company clean.” And we made a mad dash to the grocery store and bought a larger ham and we ended up having a family Easter dinner at our house after all! It’s good to see family get together, whether the house is clean and neat or not. And it was good that no one in the family made any big deal over the cleanliness (or lack thereof) and clutter in the house. And you know what? That’s a GOOD thing!

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Not Your Mama’s Fig Newtons

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April 1, 2012

Picked up a bag of those new cookies that I’ve been wanting to try. I got a coupon from the Sunday newspaper to save 50 cents and the grocery store had them on sale, so I got the bag at essentially half price. I don’t mind trying something when it’s free or deeply discounted. If it turns out that I don’t like them, I bet there will be someone in the house who gives them a try and eats them other than me. And if they are really good, they will disappear very fast.

The cookies are called “Newton’s Fruit Thins.” I noticed they have a honey and fig flavor, a cranberry orange flavor and a blueberry flavor. I decided to try the fig and honey – after all, that is what makes fig newton’s famous.

I was expecting a soft cakey cookie, like the fig newtons, but these are more like graham crackers. The bag says that the cookie part is whole grain, only 5 grams of fat per serving (three big cookies equal one serving) and no high fructose corn syrup is used.

I tasted one after I got home and I like it, but it is NOT your mama’s fig newton.

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Cheesecake is so yummy!

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March 31, 2012

Have you ever ordered a Mail Order Cheesecake? My sister sent me a link to a website that sells a large variety of cheesecakes and ships them to the recipient. She knows how much I love cheesecake, so I don’t know if she sent me the link out of love, or out of sibling rivalry – hoping that I’d gain more weight!

Over the past years I’ve gained about twenty pounds and I have been forced to buy some new clothes to wear. I was hoping to lose the weight before summer came so I would not have to buy a new summer wardrobe, but the weight is a lot harder to lose than it is to find!

So anyway, I was looking at the website and saw a yummy recipe for making some raspberry truffle cheesecake. Loving recipes as I do, I went ahead and clicked on the link and was seeing how easy it would be to make my own from scratch. I found myself wondering if I would be able to substitute the cream cheese with fat free cream cheese, and substitute the sugar with Splenda or Truvia, and perhaps make the cheesecake a little bit healthier. Have you tried doing that yourself? If so, were you happy with the results?

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Bloom has changed back to Food Lion

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March 20, 2012

I found it very interesting that a few years ago the company that owns Food Lion took some of their stores and changed their name to Bloom. They supposedly improved the quality of the food and raised the prices. Now they have decided that tactic failed and they are turning them back to Food Lions. I don’t know how I feel about that. I can remember watching a television news show many years ago about problems that Food Lions were having with failed health inspections in regards to their meats. I sure hope that is something that will not be a problem in the future!

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