So, if you've used up all your "cheats" for the week on Wednesday and on Thursday some really good friends want to take you out to lunch and the restaurant is a sports pub chain that probably can't even boast of unprocessed lettuce, what do you do?
We're social creatures, so we went and the only "legal" thing we had was the water. The restaurant specializes in "boneless wings," which we assume to be chicken nuggets, smothered in your choice of 15 sauces, which we assume had scads of chemicals and high fructose corn syrup. It was interesting, and we did have a fabulous time, but our friends are the sort of people who would make a meal of soda crackers & water fun.
We need a new policy to allow for going out with friends. If they come to our house, all is good, or if we choose the restaurant. But if we are going to more than two dinner parties during the week, that blows our "two cheats a week" rule. Maybe we use up our cheats as available, but we don't have to turn down the third party?
5 comments:
Some of the two cheats a week could be saved for those times when you are invited out by friends.
A practical solution will need to be found so that people do not feel awkward about asking you out.
I think invites should be considered gimmes or gifts. Are you including money spent in restaurants in your grocery total?
I agree with Abby - it should be a gimme. If it happens often and you haven't used your cheats for the week then by all means use them in that situation, but if you have, go anyway. This experiment of the year shouldn't take a toll on time spent with friends, you know?
Maybe--you do your best to include Legal Foods in your meal...or at least minimize. So--drink water but eat the "boneless wings" in the name of friendship, which after all has many ingredients we cannot readily identify or quantify... :-) Or be ready to pitch in with a suggestion for a place you know has more options that are experiment-friendly. "Oh, we JUST went to Bennigan's [in 1998]; what about Place X [that has organic fruit juice]?"
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I've found it a pain many times when going out with friends. High Fructose Corn Syrup (aka some evil chemical you might find in a Dean Koontz story) should be outlawed!
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