According to Berni

So this weekend was pretty much about two things.

1. Relaxing
2. Food

There was some running but that was just a given…

Now, I don’t know about you but I’m all for a nice relaxing weekend after a week of running around like a chicken with no head.  So I planned nothing and just played it by ear.

Saturday morning I made a trip to Whole Foods in search of 1 thing.   This spread that Shari had posted about a while back.

Well, I am not joking when I tell you I jumped up and down the second I found it.  My daughter thought I had lost my mind, she was actually pretty sure that happened a while back but now she was convinced.    You MUST find this non-cheese cheesy spread!  RUN, don’t walk to your nearest health food store and buy this.   You will not be sorry!   I also got the Chili-Lime Mrs Dash that she said she sprinkles on top and OMG this is my new favorite snack!  I will be having this for lunch alongside my usual suspect salad. 

After our trip to Whole Foods we went in search of this truck…  

It may look like just your ordinary Roach Coach Lunch Truck, but underneath it’s modest exterior is the most un-believable tacos you’ve ever eaten.   I first discovered this while watching a show called “Best thing I ever ate” on Food Network.   This episode was about SNACKS.   One of the Chefs talked about these trucks.   The thing is, because it’s a truck and it moves, you can only find them if you follow them on Twitter.   They “Tweet” their location.   I had gotten the “tweet” in the morning saying where they were and it wasn’t far from home so we went.   They serve Korean BBQ meats in these small little ‘street tacos’ with an asian cabbage slaw on top and OMG.  SO GOOD.  Sorry, no pic of the tacos… I didn’t even think about it before inhaling eating them…Ooops!

And then last night on my weekly Sprouts run, I was appalled at what I saw.   They were throwing away a WHOLE box of bananas, because the peelings were not pretty!!  I’m telling you these bananas were not bruised, not even completely ripe and they were THROWING THEM AWAY!!!    I think the poor kid became afraid of the look on my face because he offered to set the box outside for me to take if I’d like… UM YEAH!   I offered to buy them if he was willing to mark them down but he said he couldn’t, he had to throw them away….   So I loaded up my box and came home with a boat-load of FREE bananas and about 20 apples.  SCORE!!   The apples were all juiced and I got an entire pitcher out of them.   I will be freezing those ugly bananas for smoothies which is the only way I use them anyway… who cares if the peeling isn’t pretty right?

My son thought I was completely NUTZ for taking these bananas…in his mind they were TRASH because that is where they were headed.  

What would you have done in this situation??  Would you have taken the bananas if offered??

Well everyone, I hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing and enjoyable weekend like I did… time to get ready for the week!! 

Have a great evening!!

xoxo