This week I started an official KETO diet.  I’m going to Disney in the Fall and I want to look good.  Everyone I know doing Keto is dropping weight like crazy without working out so I’m all in on that.  I JUST started it like 3 days ago so I’m a newbie here.  I worked out my meals for the week which mostly are things I think my family will eat so I don’t have to tell them I’m on a “special” diet and listen to how gross they think the food will be.  Yesterday was my first day food shopping to get the ingredients for all these recipes.  I suppose I don’t need spices and lime juice and rice vinegar but I want to make the recipes the way they are written so I stick to the plan.  I figure I”ll have these things for multiple recipes so this should be the worst of the food bills because I already buy burger, chicken, and shrimp.  So my list is long as expected and I bring the recipe breakdown with me so if I need to, I can cut out some stuff so I don’t give my husband a heart attack with the food bill forcing the end of Keto before it even begins!  I’m committed to this.  So I get in line and think to myself, hey call your son and have him bring in the $20 you have in your wallet.   You might need it and he is out there waiting for you.  I don’t make him wait in the dreary line when he comes with me so I send him out to the car which he is happy to do.

He brings in said $20 which I am ultimately happy that he did because my usual $250 average grocery bill was $314.  It sounds better to say $294 than $314!  I’m glad I did because now I’ll have that stuff for other recipes as I head through this new venture. Here’s to new adventures!