Life changing

The biggest thing EVER happened this weekend - and yes, I do mean EVER, caps and italics.

Trader Joe’s opened its new location in Brooklyn.  This means that I no longer have to lug five million bags home from Union Square after battling a hundred people for $1.69 peanut butter and waiting in the longest line that ever existed outside of Disney World.

So, what I’m saying is, Trader Joe’s Brooklyn is a good thing.  It makes me happy.  And, because it is in Brooklyn, it is about a third larger than the Union Square location, and thus can stock more products.  We went a little crazy:

Generic Sun Chips

Chris did not fall for it.  They lacked the Harvest Cheddarness that he enjoys so much.  We will not be buying these again.

Chocolate Meringues

These, I’m telling you, taste like hot chocolate powder.  But in a good way.  I was a little freaked out at first, but now they are growing on me.

Chocolate-Covered Raisins

Yeah, we’ve had these before.  But things were flying into the cart so fast!  Don’t judge me.  At least we put back the brownie mix.

Figs

Yes.  I know.  You’ve seen these before too.  Chris put these in the cart for me.  Apparently he doesn’t fully understand the serious nature of my Fig Problem.

Anyway, so I ate a lot of that stuff over the weekend, among other things, of course.  I didn’t take a lot of pictures of actual food.  Here are a few.

Extra snack on Friday:

Z Bar With Peanut Butter

I’m getting into this caption thing.  It’s kind of awesome.

Dinner on Friday:

Lentil Soup and Mozzarella Toast

The soup is canned.  It’s an organic brand, I can’t remember which one.  It’s pretty good and very filling.  I couldn’t eat this whole bowl.

I also drank some wine and ate a few cheese and crackers while watching the debate.

On Saturday, we had bagels for breakfast, hit Trader Joe’s, ate all of the above, went out to dinner at my favorite wine bar, and then went out for a friend’s birthday, which lead to late night pizza:

I try not to do late night pizza too often, but Chris won the battle this time.  It wasn’t much of a battle.  Unfortunately, the only place we could find also happened to be a kabob house, which didn’t bode well for their pizza-making abilities:

A Harsh Critic

Yes, those are garlic knots.  They were really, really gross.  We didn’t eat them.  And, the sauce was cold!  What’s up with that?!

Yesterday, we did a bunch of random things that actually involved more pizza, and it was raining all day and really gross.  We had this for dinner:

Shrimp Goyza and Baked Tofu

And some ice cream:

And now I must get back to work, what with it being Monday and all.