Hey Everyone,
This thread is all about good intentions gone bad. For instance, maybe you tried a new food, hobby, activity, way of living, or whatever it may be with a flush of enthusiasm and the very best of intentions, but something happened that was a bit over the top -- and you had to take a step back for a while, if not forever.
One of my biggest personal struggles is to try to hop onto the path of healthy eating and getting back to "natural" foods. Because spinach is one of the few vegetables I semi-like, I almost always increase my intake of spinach when I'm on a health kick (I'm pretty sure I've eaten the equivalent of entire fields of the green stuff in my lifetime.)
My top preference is for the bagged and fresh variety, because it's so convenient and easy to toss into almost anything else I'm having.
One day I as I was nonchalantly pouring my bag of "fresh", "triple washed" spinach into a bowl... Out fell a pair of eyes that were attached to a long body with long, spindly legs.
I'm not sure if my meal had been marked as the target of a modern-day Plague of Locusts, but -- a deceased grasshopper had been included in my daily serving of spinach. (Well, at least I could knock out both my veggie AND my protein requirements for that day.) And even though I'm not a vegan, I'm pretty sure that consuming a grasshopper with your salad would NOT be considered a vegan option.
How unfortunate that this poor little guy had just happened to land on or be resting among the very spinach leaves that were being harvested at the time. And the next place the little guy landed -- you guessed it -- was in the trash.
I had to shake my head over the fact that my good intentions for a "fresh" and "natural" lunch wound up being just a bit TOO fresh and TOO natural for me that day. And it really made me think about how much I just wanted a good old-fashioned grasshopper-less pizza. (I wonder if grasshoppers would be even more disdained as a pizza topping than pineapple...)
What about the rest of you?
* Have you ever attempted to start something with the very best of intentions, only to be thwarted by something totally unexpected?
* What was the straw (or pair of eyeballs) that broke your camel's back?
This thread is all about good intentions gone bad. For instance, maybe you tried a new food, hobby, activity, way of living, or whatever it may be with a flush of enthusiasm and the very best of intentions, but something happened that was a bit over the top -- and you had to take a step back for a while, if not forever.
One of my biggest personal struggles is to try to hop onto the path of healthy eating and getting back to "natural" foods. Because spinach is one of the few vegetables I semi-like, I almost always increase my intake of spinach when I'm on a health kick (I'm pretty sure I've eaten the equivalent of entire fields of the green stuff in my lifetime.)
My top preference is for the bagged and fresh variety, because it's so convenient and easy to toss into almost anything else I'm having.
One day I as I was nonchalantly pouring my bag of "fresh", "triple washed" spinach into a bowl... Out fell a pair of eyes that were attached to a long body with long, spindly legs.
I'm not sure if my meal had been marked as the target of a modern-day Plague of Locusts, but -- a deceased grasshopper had been included in my daily serving of spinach. (Well, at least I could knock out both my veggie AND my protein requirements for that day.) And even though I'm not a vegan, I'm pretty sure that consuming a grasshopper with your salad would NOT be considered a vegan option.
How unfortunate that this poor little guy had just happened to land on or be resting among the very spinach leaves that were being harvested at the time. And the next place the little guy landed -- you guessed it -- was in the trash.
I had to shake my head over the fact that my good intentions for a "fresh" and "natural" lunch wound up being just a bit TOO fresh and TOO natural for me that day. And it really made me think about how much I just wanted a good old-fashioned grasshopper-less pizza. (I wonder if grasshoppers would be even more disdained as a pizza topping than pineapple...)
What about the rest of you?
* Have you ever attempted to start something with the very best of intentions, only to be thwarted by something totally unexpected?
* What was the straw (or pair of eyeballs) that broke your camel's back?
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