Ideal Protein Snacks!

I am loving the Barbecue Soy Nuts! They take time to eat so end up being quite satisfying! That is; they take time to eat if you eat one or two at a time, not if you toss a handful down your throat!
Salt & Vinegar Chips are okay, as well, but not as good as the soy nuts.
My husband is a huuuuge fan of regular salt & vinegar potato chips (or "crisps," as he so adorably calls them!)so I have snacked on many a brand and these do not hold a candle to real salt & vinegar chips.
Buuuut, hey, we are on a freaking diet so we really can't expect them to be like real potato chips! Eating too much crap like potato chips is what put us here in the first place!
As snacks for a diet go, these will certainly do! The chips get a little aftertaste-ish as you get through the bag but it isn't that bad.
I will definitely get more of the soy nuts next week...like maybe a whole box! Which means doing a "clean" lunch like one of the drinks. I could use a break from the vegetarian chili, even though I enjoy it.
So, we went to a bunch of estate sales this morning and got some way cool stuff to sell on eBay! Some groovy 1960s luggage, some 1950s Florida souvenir scarves, some vintage melmac and an adorable little metal kitchen shelf thingie for potatoes and onions and stuff. It's probably from the 1930s and has an original decorative decal on it and is about 24" high or so and maybe 14" wide. That one's for us and looks so fabulous in our vintage/retro red & white kitchen! I stuck our vitamins on the top shelf and potatoes and onions on the middle shelf and I haven't decided what will go on the bottom shelf yet, other than my cute antique red handled wooden rolling pin.
And by the way...you know how I had recommended using seltzer with some of the drinks for a change of pace? Be careful!!!! I was shaking a Cappuccino drink in the Ideal Protein Shaker and KABOOOOM!
I certainly do not recommend doing that in your living room standing near your vintage mid-century modern cream colored sofa(or your poor husband who may have been sitting on said sofa wearing his very favorite white Umbro training pants!)....nope...I do NOT recommend that at all!
I spent so much time with a toothbrush, Resolve, a cup of warm water and soaking paper towels than I want to even think about! It's still a little damp but I think it might turn out okay-Thank God! I still have to take down my 1960s psychedelic black & white draperies although I am not worried about those. I bought those from an estate where I swear the people must have been chain smokers and I managed to get them back to black & white(instead of the black & tar they had been!)
Now that it's "Bathing Costume" Season(another of my husband's phrases)- I was invited to a friend's condos pool last Sunday...you know the day it was sunny until we actually got to the pool and then all of a sudden rained torrentially until it was time to drive home? Yeah, that day! So, I was getting ready and I put on my bathing suit and looked in the mirror. I had decided I was not going to buy a new one until I reached goal. Well, that went right out the window because I looked like a little girl playing dress-up in mommy's suit!
I often wear a size up in a one-piece bathing suit or just get a size larger for the bottom if I wear a tankini. I have such a long torso and big butt, if I want to keep it all covered, which I do, I need to go a little bigger than my regular size. So there I was in a size 18... I probably could have fit 4 of my current size boobs in one cup and it was so long it was halfway down my thighs!
So I ran to Target and tried on about a hundred bathing suits...okay, I might be exaggerating, it may have only been 20. I found the cutest suit! It's sort of retro pin-up looking in black & white polka-dots with a v-neck, halter straps and it does the coolest thing! It has ruching at the sides and you can pull it all the way down and it's like a little dress or ruch it up wherever you want and make it shorter and make the ruching cover a not perfectly flat yet belly. Super cute and only $40.
Keep up the good work everyone and have a great weekend!