Travels in the South

Welcome my friends to another edition of Travels in the South.  I know we usually show restaurant food but today we have something special.  You see daddy loves M&M’s with nuts and mom loves caramel.  Well somehow M&M nuts got mixed up with caramel and made this new creation – M&Ms Caramel.  What a combination, right?!

So how are these new nuggets of wonder?  Per daddy, they taste very similar to a Rolo.  There is a great combination of chocolate to caramel and the nuts add another dimension.  So if you like chocolate, caramel and nuts – look for these in your market the next time you go.  They are definitely worth a try!  And hey, get the big pack so you can share ❤

 

Why I Gained Weight This Week

Okay I’m a big girl – okay not “BIG” girl but big in the way of I can admit failure from last week and not losing weight.  You see there was the Red Velvet Oreo cookies that I found in the store.  Red Velvet not being one of my favorite flavors but the hub unit’s favorite.  Of course I bought him a bag – what kind of wife would I be not too, right?

So I call him and tell him that I have something special for him that night.  Of course he is a guy with a one track mind so I have to tell him no not that – ha!  But something he will love more – something that is his favorite.

So I hurriedly rush home to give him his bag of Oreo’s.

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So to heck with dinner.  Let’s open these bad boys up and try them.  That’s when we saw that the cookie part was the Red Velvet and the white part of the Oreo was the cream cheese.  We both grab one cookie – you know to test for taste.

At the same time we bit into our cookies.  That’s when we heard the angels sing.  Oh my heavens – these things are fantastic.  Not overly sweet but you can taste the Red Velvet and the cream cheese.  Yes we were hooked and – lowers head – no we didn’t stop at just one.  You can tell by looking at the size of my butt.  It is now the size of Texas.

And shakes head.  I would like to say that the madness stopped there but I would be lying.

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Oh no.  That’s when I brought out exhibit 2 from my purchases earlier this day.  Chili Nut M&M’s.  Father, I have sinned.

Let me tell you something my friends.  If you see this in the store, buy them.  They freeze well… I’ve heard.  They are just like regular peanut M&M’s.  They taste wonderful…however, when you swallow you find a little heat coming your way.  Not so much that you run for cover to drink a gallon of milk but enough to say “Hey, welcome to the party.”

So you see my friends, I know why I didn’t lose weight this past week.  Admittance is the first thing, right?  Here’s to a better week this week.

#oreos #redvelvetores #M&M’s #chilinutM&Ms

 

 

 

Shopping Around the World

This month we are highlighting appetizers or snacks.  

This gives us so many choices to pick from and it was really hard for us to pick one.  But after I thought long and hard about it, I had to go with dad’s crack.  Snorts – no not that kind of crack.  Dad actually has a snack treat that we call crack.  Why crack?  Because he can’t keep his hands out of the container when mom fixes it – snorts with piggy laughter.  And when mom makes this, she fixes a whole bunch because it goes fast.  You can use it as a snack or bring it to a party.  So now, all of you can fix it and get hooked to on it.  Enjoy my friends.

Dad’s Crack

1 bag of short pretzels (dad prefers these but you can use any kind of pretzel you want).  For a bag of pretzels, we pay $1.29

2 bags of peanut butter morsels.  You find these on the baking aisle.  We paid $1.50 for each bag on this shopping trip.

2 boxes of movie theater sized Reeses Pieces (you know the kind they showed in the movie E.T – ha)  These were $1.00 each in the store

Optional – a bag of toasted coconut.  Sometimes dad likes this and other times he doesn’t.  A bag of coconut costs $2.49 in the store.

Now, first up.  If you are going to do the coconut you need to do this first.  Put the coconut on a tray and stick it in the oven.  Mom puts it under the broiler for a few minutes.  Keep an eye on it because it will burn quickly.  Toast the coconut and then set it aside to cool.

While your coconut is cooling, get a BIG bowl.  Yep the bigger the better in this case.  Pour in your entire bag of pretzels followed by your Reeses Pieces and peanut butter morsels.  When your coconut is cool, throw it into the party as well.  Then stir everything together and make sure it is nicely mingled.  Mom then packages the crack into individual containers for dad’s destruction.

So you see, it’s an easy snack that goes a long way and peeps love it!  The final cost for this snack is less than $9.00 (with coconut) and that should last either a couple of weeks,  one night at a party or two days with dad – snorts.  And never fear, if you don’t like peanut butter, just substitute items for what you do love.  For example any kind of chocolate candy and any kind of baking morsels.  Happy crack my friends.

 

 

Dad is on Crack

  Here is the proof – dad is on crack.

He’s been on it for over two weeks now and he is fully addicted.  He says the power is so strong that he lives and breathes this crack.  Poor dad.  He needs to go into rehab to get off of it.  I don’t really blame mom.  I mean hey, she did cook it up but it’s not like she forced dad to get hooked.  I guess in a way you can say mom is the pusher though.  Why else would she keep this junk in the house where daddy can find it and overdose in it.  I would like to say I feel sorry for daddy but he’s not sharing the good stuff he said.  So I don’t know how addictive it is or not.

And trust me, mom put the works in this stuff.  Pretzel sticks, peanuts, peanut butter M&M’s, raisins and butterscotch drops.  That was a full bucket.  But every time daddy goes into the kitchen, he comes out with a paw full.  Poor daddy – shakes piggy head – what a user!.

 

Fantasy Island

Do you remember the show on television called Fantasy Island?  It had Mr. Roarke and Tattoo on a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.  Visitors came to the island to have their fantasies play out that they desired.

This is a cool show and I wish it was still in production.  I have the videos and I watch them on my television in my bedroom all of the time.  And I gotta ask, what kind of M&M’s did Tattoo like?  The plane – the plane.  Snorts – okay I had to get that out of my piggy system.

Okay here’s the real question.  If you went on Fantasy Island, what would your fantasy be?  Mine would be to be king on a strawberry plantation and have Miss Piggy hand feed me strawberries all day long.  Can you see that?  I so can!  So go – what would your fantasy be?

P.S.  I asked mom what her fantasy would be.  Are you ready for this?  She said to be Wonder Woman for one day – the looks, the costume, the power and Steve Trevor.  Hubba-hubba.  Her words not mine- eeww.