The Beach

This morning I made Jeannette pancakes.  I brought the gluten free box mix and made them with hemp milk.  I didn't have pure maple syrup, so I had to use Log Cabin.  I didn't really want to use that, but there were no other options.  I also had packed some of her bacon and she had that with the pancakes.  We planned on going to the beach, so I had to pack a bunch of different things for her to eat at the beach.

We spent a majority of the day at the beach.  When the kids got hungry, we broke for lunch.  I made Jeannette 2 soy nut rice cakes and then sprinkled carob chips on top.  She was only able to eat one and saved the other for later.  The hardest thing about the beach is all the delicious, horrible, fatting, greasy foods that are readily available.   My favorites are Thrasher's fries, funnel cakes and ice cream.  The benefit of Jeannette being on this diet is that I wasn't able to go out and eat all that junk.  For that, I am thankful.

For dinner, we went out for crabs.  We went to our favorite crab place in Delmarva, called The Old Mill.  It has all you can eat crabs along with other fried foods: fried chicken, fried shrimp, fried clams, corn on the cob and hush puppies sprinkled in powdered sugar.  That's what the three of us got.  The last time we got crabs, they ate 2-3 clusters each.  I thought I would have gotten my monies worth.  Unfortunately, I didn't.  I knew the kids wouldn't eat the corn, clams, and shrimp.  The only thing Jeannette wanted to eat was the hush puppies.  She says to me, "I wish I could eat one.  I know I can't, but I wish I could."  I decided to let her try one and she had a few bites.  I didn't pay attention and before I knew it, she had eaten the whole hush puppy.  If that was the worse thing she ate all day, then I was not going to beat myself up for that.