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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Jimmies in the South

Thoughts for Today
Today was a fun day. Wife and I met up with our long time friends at a flea market in Cookeville, TN which is about the halfway point between our houses. My only purchase was from a vendor who had cases and cases of jimmies. What are jimmies you ask? Where I grew up, that's what chocolate sprinkles for ice cream were called, but whenever I ask for jimmies here in the South, people look at me like I'm nuts. So when I saw cases full of shrink-wrapped plastic bottles of "Jimmies" from the factory I had to buy one. Total cost: 10 cents.

As far as health score, I rate the day a C+ for having two meals where the main course was a salty red-meat based sandwiches on white bread and for eating some of my buddy's pork rinds when I wasn't even hungry. I might have even rated it a C, but we did walk a lot between the flea market and other places we went and the rest of the day's eating wasn't bad, so I'm leaving at C+.

Good night y'all.

Exercise
Clicked in at over 12,000 pedometer steps.

Breakfast
Bagel Thin with a little reduced fat cream cheese. Bowl of Kellog's Low Fat Granola cereal with skim milk. 2 cups of black coffee.

Lunch
We found a cool little lunch spot on outskirts of Cookeville, TN called The Cottage. Had a BBQ sandwich with mashed potatoes (no additional butter) and green beans. Potatoes were some of the best I've ever had, other food was good too and I liked the atmosphere of the place. Diet Coke.

Dinner
We intended to eat a light dinner at home, but got hungry while we were still a good hour from home and ended up grabbing Arby's. Had a regular roast beef sandwich with some Arby's BBQ sauce and a side of a potato cake (not nearly as bad a curly fries would have been). Diet Coke.

Snacks
Bowl of Raisin Bran with skim milk. A few handfuls of hot and spicy pork rinds. A handful or two of BBQ corn nuts. About 12 natural almonds.

3 comments:

  1. So you're a nut with Jimmys? My kids love those things on thier ice-cream. They are just called chocolate sprinkles here in Oz

    I like how you are rating your food :o)

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  2. It's fun to find those nostalgic memories in a bottle. I like your rating system. It's honest. That's a lot of steps, do they have a conversion for how far that is?

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  3. Just caught up on your posts...sounds like you're doing great! Doesn't sound like you went too crazy at the buffet, and I'm glad you had a good day with your friends at the flea market. :)

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