Yesterday I was doing my weekly grocery shopping. On my list
I had listed I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Light. Actually, I had "ICBINB
Light" on the list. [[Funny side story, one time I was so sick my husband had to
do the grocery shopping for the week and he said, “Just make me a list of what
we need.” So I listed, “ICBINB Light” on the list and when he came back I asked
him if he had bought everything on the list. He said, “Yeah, but what the hell
is ICBINB Light?” I about died with laughter! He now knows what it is but I just thought he knew because we had been buying it for ages, but I assumed totally
wrong.]]
So anyways, I had ICBINB Light on my list. I then noticed
that there were a few new margarines on the shelf and so I started comparing
the usual…calories, serving size, sodium, FAT, types of fat…etc, etc. I
concluded that the ICBINB Light is still the best bang for the least calorie
buck. As I was putting the new tub in my cart I noticed that right
next to it was the Country Crock.
Have you ever had Country Crock?!?!?! It’s good…well at
least to me it tastes really good. I used to have a really bad habit involving
Country Crock…lol. [[That just came out
totally funny. My bad habit did not have anything to do with putting Country
Crock in weird places…get your head out of the gutter! Perve! Okay, that’s
actually my head in the gutter…lol]]
What I meant is that I used to have a really bad FOOD habit
involving Country Crock and so it made me think about all the bad food habits I used
to have. I mean really gross habits. Just read on and you’ll be grossed out too…
1. Country Crock on wheat bread – I used to smother Country
Crock on bread and sprinkle it with Equal sweetener. I don’t mean like
buttering your toast. I mean like a quarter inch thick of Country Crock on
fluffy bread. I was in my early twenties and because the bread was wheat and
the sweetener wasn't sugar, I thought this was an okay snack to have. I don’t
know why I thought this was okay. I just really liked Country Crock and I would
buy the huge tubs from Costco and dig in….bleh!
2. Peanut butter from the tub – When I was in my teens, my
mom seldom bought peanut butter. So I went
buck wild my first year away at college and bought jars upon jars of Skippy
Creamy from Costco. I had some hand-me-down wooden spoons that my mom had given
me for cooking. These spoons…
On a regular basis, after my afternoon classes, I would take
a spoonful of peanut butter from the jar and walk into my dorm room and eat the
whole spoon as a “snack.” I never thought twice about eating that mad amount of
peanut butter all at once. Nor did I think about the sugar in the peanut butter.
All I thought was, “YUMMMM, PEANUT BUTTER!!!!”
3. Mustard straight from the container – Growing up my dad
had his own business and during the summers my mom would take us along with her
to my dad’s shop. My dad was the machinist while my mom was everything involving
the office. So since they were the boss they had the luxury of having their
kids with them during the summers.
Now remember, I was a fat kid. I loved to eat and it was
never my mom or dad’s fault that I was always hungry. I was just completely out
of control when it came to food. My mom fed me enough!!! I was just a little
piglet and was constantly hungry. Anyways, on the afternoons when my mom had to
stay a little later than usual I would be scraping-at-the-walls hungry! My dad
never stocked his fridge because he didn't have to since my mom always brought
food for the day. However, my dad did have plenty of condiments in his fridge.
When you are a fat kid, condiments qualify as food! My favorite thing to eat
when I was “starving” was mustard. I would literally open the fridge door; look
over the fridge to see if anyone was watching, and if not, I would let the
mustard straight out pour into my mouth. It was soooo horrible and to this day
I still feel sorry for my inner fat child for feeling so hungry that I had to
resort to eating mustard like that…
Poor fat kid
