Yesterday Mark and I had our usual morning: walking, TV news, blogging, emailing, and water aerobics. Then it kind of went down hill.
We left the pool and headed to BJs for a semi-annual stock up of paper products. We got napkins, paper towels, toilet paper, and two different sized boxes of tissues. A few other items were thrown in the cart, and off we drove to our next store. So far, so good.
We drove a long slow drive up John Young Highway to the Super Target at Millenia Mall because they have fresh kosher beef! That's a RARE commodity in this area. There is a lot of construction on the road, so it was a very slow drive. Then the horror started. NO MEAT!
Yes, the Super Target has decided to drop its entire line of kosher food, not just the fresh beef. Nothing. We were shocked and dismayed because this was the closest place to go for it.
So has we faced over an hour drive south on the slow road under construction, Mark decided to see if Cohen's in the Disney area had opened their store yet. When they moved the deli and butcher shop from Clermont to the WorldGate Hotel, the restaurant opened right away, but the store was planned for the future. That was in October. Right before Passover they told us the store would open in the late spring or early summer. So Mark got on their website to see if it said the store was open now. It would only be a 45 minute drive from our house to get fresh meat if that store opened.
NO. Not only is the store not opened, Cohen's is GONE! They have left the WorldGate hotel, so their excellent kosher restaurant is also gone. Geez!
The website said they have left the WorldGate hotel and are planning to reopen somewhere else in Orlando, but there was no word as to where or when. What a bummer! Just one more reminder that we do NOT live in a very Jewish area. We would have had to move much farther south, like two or three hours south on the coast, or over an hour north in the Longwood/Maitland area to find more kosher options. Sigh.
So now we are just going to go back to our original plan that worked the first year or so that we were here, ordering from NYC! The $25 shipping fee was looking good yesterday as we spent over two hours in slow traffic with nothing to show for it.
We can still get fresh kosher chicken and turkey at Whole Foods, only about a 50-60 minute drive away. The Publix near WDW has a lot of kosher frozen products, including Meal Mart brand, about a 45 minute drive away. Our two local Publix stores offer a few things, and both offer different things, so that's our closest option. Still, it is slim pickins in this area.
As for food yesterday, I made great choices for breakfast and lunch, eating my usuals. Dinner? Not so great for either Mark or me. We were trying to earn some more points on our Landry's card in order to get a $25 off coupon for the future. Hm...on second thought we should have said forget it. We went to Landry's for bar food at Happy Hour. Mark had a cheap Cabernet, which he liked, and I skipped alcohol, the one good thing I did. Then we ordered a plate of fried zucchini and the fish tacos. The tacos were two on the plate along with a moderate amount of french fries for each of us. Of course, we both ate every bite. Mark's sugar is ridiculously high this morning and I'm up a pound.
Why do I know I'm up a pound? Because Mark never did hide the scale from me. If that scale is on the floor, I step on it. No getting around that. It's all the will power I have to avoid eating the types and quantity of food that I want. There's no will power left over for staying off that scale.
And how about that news that obesity is now classified as a disease? I guess that's for a future blog.
This morning we have a two hour drive ahead of us to the home of the president of our NARFE chapter. Mark and I are both on the board, so off we go to the board meeting. She is buying sandwiches to serve for lunch after the meeting. She did ask about our food restrictions, so at least there are going to be fish and cheese options. I told her I would bring a tossed salad, so Mark and I can put the tuna salad and/or cheese on salad and throw out the bread. One good decision that I made.
Tonight's dinner is at a restaurant about 20 minutes from here called The Port. I went with the Mah Jongg ladies for lunch last winter shortly after it had opened. It's right on a lake and just beautiful. I think Mark is going to love it. It serves all kinds of fresh fish, so I am hoping we can make reasonable choices there. We don't even have to rush because we have already seen the movie at Solivita tonight.
I just noticed that no exercise was mentioned here today. No, I didn't go out walking because we have to leave at 8 a.m. for this board meeting. We do hope to hit the weights in the gym before going to dinner because we never got to them yesterday. So exercise is a little light today. That happens.
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