Four things I impulsively added to a Target pick-up order:
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HighKey mini cookies. I should have noticed that even on the nice 20% off sale, this was still a TINY two-ounce bag of low-carb cookies for $3.20 (FOUR DOLLARS usually). I had pictured Famous-Amos-sized mini-cookies, but these are even teensier. And the serving is seven cookies, but seriously you could put all seven in your mouth at once, no problem. But they WERE rather tasty. I nibbled them delicately, like fancy little expensive mouse tea party cookies I will never buy again.
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Starbucks Spring Day Blend coffee. Isn’t that a pretty bag? And doesn’t it give you a tiny whiff of hope to see SPRING-themed things even though we know it is only February? Target was having their sale where the $7.99 bags of Starbucks are $5.99 each if you buy three or more, so I bought two of my usual kinds and added this impulsively as the third. Their special blends (Thanksgiving! Christmas!) always just taste like regular coffee to me, but I enjoy seeing the bag, and it isn’t as if it’s more expensive.
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Swiss Miss Lucky Charms hot chocolate. I am so…I was going to say “charmed by this.” I don’t drink hot chocolate very often, and I don’t have any special fondness for Lucky Charms marshmallows, but it’s just so CUTE. Each serving is two attached packs: one of hot cocoa mix, and a separate one of the special marshmallows. And I knew I could try one serving of it just for fun, and the kids would consume the rest.
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Peeps cereal. I can’t explain myself. Well, I can try: I recently bought Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie cereal on impulse because I found its existence funny. And I have eaten a little bowl of it on each of my most recent Keto Days Off, and I have enjoyed it and have not regretted the purchase. So when I saw ANOTHER funny cereal, I bought it. It says it is “marshmallow-flavored cereal, with marshmallows.” HOW can that be good. I cannot WAIT for my next Day Off so I can try it!!
HighKey also makes a very chocolatey cereal that is similar to rice krispies. It is absolutely fantastic on top of Dannon Light and Fit yogurt. Especially the toasted marshmallow variety if you can find it. It makes a good dessert when you’re trying to watch your calories.
I find it interesting that 50% of your impulse purchases involved fun, coloured marshmallows. I think I too should start looking for cheering foods. We don’t typically get full-on spring with grass and leaves and flowers until May here, and that seems very far away. It doesn’t help that my friends in BC are already posting photos of grass and flowers there, just when winter gets bleakest here.
I cannot believe there is a Peeps cereal. So funny. I ran into the grocery store to buy a few things the day before my actual shopping day. I was making dinner for another family and I needed a few things. I vowed that I would not then do my actual shopping day. I tired to grab a few essentials like milk, and yogurt and bagels. The thought was we can get through the week like this because I am due to go to Costco next week anyway. Well, I am now discovering a few things here and there that we need before next week and I am annoyed.
I look forward to your review of Peeps cereal.
“Marshmallow-flavoured cereal with marshmallows” I am WEAK. And I have all the sympathy for not noticing the size of something you’re ordering – I wrote a post about ordering a mammoth bag of dog food that I thought was smaller and a teensy ceramic vase that I thought was bigger. And let’s not even talk about the box of envelopes. Although, if we do, remind me to give you sixty envelopes.
Favorite bit: “I nibbled them delicately, like fancy little expensive mouse tea party cookies I will never buy again.”
PEEPS CEREAL. Please do a follow up because I have to know if the marshmallows are tiny peeps?