My purchases – beef, vegetables, eggs, and bacon.

Hi Victoria–

I always like to compare what’s in shopping carts to the people pushing them whenever I can’t get out of going to the grocery store with MD.  Overweight people always seem to have their carts loaded with just what we all know keeps them overweight: carbs, carbs, carbs.

Best–

MRE

Anna

Hi Anna–

I probably wouldn’t try it.  Unless forced, of course, by some new TSA idiocy that resulted in a ban of my jerky and nut staples.

Cheers–

MRE

Did you ever blog about coconut oil?

Hi Mary–

I can’t help but thinking of the Yogi Berra quote: “You can see a lot just by looking.”

I don’t know if I’ve ever posted specifically on coconut oil, but I’m sure I’ve mentioned it a few times.  It’s one of the mainstays of our cooking.  MD uses it for everything.

Cheers–

MRE

Cheers–

MRE ”

yes they do… being in terminal C at Newark, after the security screening, yes, sadly, you have to gnaw thru your steak with a sad little plastic knife. The knife they give you is a sturdy one, but its not really up to the task… but given the situation, you take what you can get and you are damn gratefull… a lovely steak and a nice glass of wine makes the flight just a bit more pleasant, of course

Hi Fritz–

I suppose a plastic knife is a small price to pay for decent food beyond the security gates.

Thanks for the info.

MRE

I’ve never flown first class but it’s on my list of “thing to do before I die.”

Hi Victoria–

If you want to fly first class at a substantial discount, fly somewhere on Spirit Airlines.  They are based in Detroit, but fly all over the place.  Their first class tickets are cheaper than most airlines coach tickets.  You have to book through Spirit, though, because Travelocity and the other ticket outlets don’t book Spirit flights.  MD and I fly them whenever we can and have always had good experiences.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Patricia–

Eyes rolled on cue.  The last time I had a ‘healthy’ breakfast snack pack I got a large muffin, a banana, a box of Special K, and a granola bar.  Try counting the carbs up in that mess.  I should have opted for the ‘unhealthy’ pack–I probably would have gotten a boiled egg.

Cheer–

MRE

This illustrates a problem with high carb foods–they tend to be calorically dense. Most people would be shocked to find out how many calories and g of carbs are in a large bowl of pasta or breakfast cereal, for example.

Hi Paul–

They would be even more shocked to find out how much sugar all this pasta and cereal converted to in their own GI tracts. It’s easy to get the equivalent of 10-20 teaspoons of sugar in such a meal. When you consider that a normal blood sugar represents only one teaspoon of dissolved sugar, you realize what a metabolic load all this pasta and cereal puts on your pancreas. No wonder diabetes is at epidemic proportions.

Cheers–

MRE

Of course, now my 8 yo son has the “good life” up front in the plane etched in his brain and won’t shut up about it whenever flying is mentioned. He had better not get used to it. The ff miles won’t go far if we use them that way all the time . He did notice and comment that many of the fellow passengers up front left their trash all over place. That got a smile/smirk from one of the “surly” flight attendants.

Ciao,
Anna

Hi Anna–

We avoided that mistake when our kids were still at home–we never, ever let them fly first class because we knew what would happen.

MD and I never trade in our miles for free tickets; we always use them to upgrade.  They last a lot longer that way and we continue to collect the miles for future upgrades.  And we also have only credit cards that give us miles, so we can add to our stash whenever we spend for anything.  I’ll tip my hat to your husband because I refuse to make a transcontinental flight unless I go at least Business Class.  We plan way ahead and set our trips based on availability.  If someone wants one of us (or both) to speak, First or Business Class to get there is part of the price.

On coach, which we do fly often domestically, we always take our own nuts and jerky.  The last domestic coach flight we took (back from Dallas) we dined magnificently on nuts and bloody marys.  We would indeed be hosed if those were banned.

Cheers–

MRE

the only problem is that you have to use a dinky plastic knife to carve up your steak…

Hi Mrfreddy–

Thanks for the tip.  They give you plastic knives in the restaurant…?

Cheers–

MRE

Sounds awesome! I rarely fly, but when I do, I bring some cheese.

Hi Lyndsey–

Smart move with the cheese.  When we know we’re going to be flying coach, MD and I always bring jerky and nuts.  Makes a good snack and is easy to carry.

Cheers–

MRE