The Day after Easter

We spent a wonderful ten days of spring break visiting family in Canada and spending time at our Worldmark Condominium in West Yellowstone. I enjoyed my sugar cereal, my favorite Canadian candy bars (Big Turks, especially), my Costco double chocolate muffins, my Tim Horton timbits and more, each with the thought that in a few days these things would not be on the menu. We returned home Sunday evening, unpacked and stayed up until 4 AM helping my 9th grader finish off a project for his Science class. We barely woke up the next morning with no food in the house. No eggs, no fresh produce. Pretty much nothing, but we did have candy from the Easter baskets. This was not a good way to start out the “program”. My husband skipped breakfast. I ate some Rice Crackers. He called me at lunch and said, “What can I eat?” I told him to go buy a salad. I ate more rice crackers and some ham. This clearly wasn’t working. We had decided to skip the preparation week as most of it seemed designed to slowly wean people off of alcohol and caffeine, neither of which was something we had in our diet already, however it was time to figure out what our plan was.