Love Of Oats

A blog dedicated to balancing a healthy and fun life… with oats!

Long Shopping Trip

It was such a nice day weather-wise, I’m sad we’re supposed to get showers tomorrow :(   We took advantage of the nice weather though and went for a long 45 minute walk around our neighborhood, it was lovely!!!

So what we thought was going to be a brief 30 minute trip to Lowe’s to buy the grill and lawnmower that we had already decided on, turned out to be a very painful and long shopping trip, but it was still productive and !  We headed out around 6:30 but before leaving, I snacked on some roasted soybean halves

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At Lowe’s, we picked out our items relatively quickly, bought everything and headed out to the car to load it all up.  It turned into a family affair since Bill’s dad was also buying a lawnmower and my parents had stopped at Lowe’s to pick up some blinds ~ too funny!  Well, Bill noticed that as he was loading our Charbroil Commercial grill, there was a dent in the box and then he realized that it was dented.  So we had to wait for a new grill, etc… Long story short, we headed out of there finally around 8pm.  My intention was to head home and cook dinner but we were both tired and decided that it would be best to use a gift card :)   So, off we went to Longhorn

I started out with an unsweetened iced tea

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Then, I had a garden salad… If you can’t tell, I’m not a huge fan of croutons but forgot to ask for them on the side, so I made a pretty border out of them :)

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My entree was an 8 ounce steak well done which I inhaled with lots of steamed veggies.  Usually, I only eat half of this amount of steak, but I guess I was starved!

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Now it’s off to relax, watch the rest of the Phillies game, and then it’s just about bedtime for me!  I think I may settle in with a blanket and a hot cup of decaf tea… I’ll be back tomorrow after church :)

PS.  In case you missed it, Polly has a new site (yay!) at http://www.yogaisyummy.net/

Category: dinner
  • Marianne says:

    Now, I like croutons, but that is an excessive crouton to salad ratio! The crouton border does look very cute though ;)

    April 25, 2009 at 3:01 am
  • marafaye says:

    YUM! Can’t wait to see what you make on the new grill! (so jealous)

    April 19, 2009 at 10:19 am
  • ksgoodeats says:

    I love going to Lowe’s with the ‘rents! There’s some eye candy at mine ;)

    April 19, 2009 at 9:16 am
  • VeggieGirl says:

    My folks were at Lowe’s yesterday too, haha :-D

    April 19, 2009 at 7:49 am
  • MizFit says:

    you are SUCH a diehard baseball fan.

    makes me miss the ‘burgh and my beloved PIRATES :)

    April 19, 2009 at 6:46 am
  • charzilla says:

    Hey Linds, been reading the blog for a while! Thanks to you I made a bowl of oats on my own. (never had before hehe) I shouted you out in my blog so take a peek! Thanks!!!

    April 19, 2009 at 1:55 am
  • Alison says:

    Interesting idea for roasted soybeans!

    April 19, 2009 at 12:34 am
  • Sharon says:

    Mmmmm steak. Yum!

    April 19, 2009 at 12:20 am
  • Erin says:

    Sorry it’s been a rough week for ya. Being a former Philly gal, I have so many friends that were SO upset this week.
    :(

    Glad you’re back tho.

    April 19, 2009 at 12:13 am
  • runsarah says:

    Mmm, I need to try roasted soybeans!

    April 18, 2009 at 11:11 pm
  • FoodsThatFit says:

    I have eaten tons of soy products, but never the actual beans like that, they look like peanuts…Something new for me to try for sure!!

    April 18, 2009 at 11:11 pm
  • jenngirl says:

    At least you had a productive trip out, even if it took forever! And nice steak dinner :)

    April 18, 2009 at 10:56 pm
  • glidingcalm says:

    soy beans and steak looks yummers!

    April 18, 2009 at 10:56 pm

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