Black Oak's Daughter

I had an interesting experience today.

I’ve been eating a lot of fresh fruit and veggies and unprocessed home cooked food for the past few weeks.  I feel better physically. A lot better actually. I’m not walking around in a food coma anymore. The only processed food I’ve eaten is a few frozen lunch things, and I buy the better quality ones of those that are less processed and more like real food.

Anyway

There’s this new product that I needed to check out.  My favorite snack food when I was a kid were Tidbits.  I had a whole ritual about eating them. They were the perfect food. Cheezy, salty, carby, deliciousness, and if you bit them just right, you could break the cracker in half the long way along the seam. Don’t ask me why I think that’s fun. Probably for the same reason I play with oreo’s (If you do it right you can stack the stuff from 5 or more cookies together, but that would be a gross amount of sugar, or Oh So Good!) (it’s even better with double stuffs )  or M&M Peanuts (gotta get the peanut out before that second half of the chocolate goes in) or Twix (the challenge is to eat everything around the cookie before the cookie) same thing for Heath bars (gotta get the toffee out) and OMG I forgot the best cookie EVER – Nutter Butter! (they work the same way as oreo’s but with peanut buttery goodness, and serious heartburn if I eat more than 3 of them.) The list goes on.

Must. Play. With. Food.

But I digress…

Nabisco stopped making Tidbits several years ago. Cheeze nips, and Cheeze-its are not nearly as good, or fun to play with.  Being the cheeze-o-holic that I am (which should be differentiated between being the Cheese-O-Holic that I also am, just take note that I love fake “cheeze food” almost as much as a good smoked gouda or butterkase)  there’s been a disappointing void of processed crackerfied cheeze food in my life since the downfall of the Tidbit.

The commercial on TV that got me thinking about that was for these.  I didn’t want to get too excited that my Tidbit void could be filled. Getting my hopes up just opens me up for a big let down, but the commercial kept coming on and taunting me into buying some.

I had a conversation with a co-worker today. I was starving this afternoon, and she offered me some cheese crackers. I said no, but we got into a conversation about the Mac N Cheese crackers.  We both want to try them, but she had looked and said they were expensive. I basically ruled them out because of my new eating plan.

Fast forward to starving me, an hour after that conversation, shopping at Walmart to pick up a few necessities that we were out of that were waiting for payday to buy, and there they are. Those crackers. A lone box on the shelf, calling me. With it’s most beautiful Cheezy siren voice, it beckoned. Sucking me right in, and they virtually floated into my cart.

I looked at the box. One serving, 44  (they’re small) not so bad on the calories or fat.  OK OK, I’ll try one serving and put the rest of the box out at work. I’ll get it out of my system. I just have to know. Really. I’m seriously not kidding. I’m into this new healthy eating thing. I feel better than I have in a long while. Just call me a cheezy crack(er) head OK? I admit it.

So I check out, get to the car, wing the crackers to the front seat while I’m loading everything else into the back.

They bounce off the back of the front seat and land on the floor of the back seat.

Shit.

The cart guy grabs my cart when I’m done unloading. I didn’t even see him there. He scared the crap out of me.

There’s 2 cars waiting for my spot too.

I slide open the back door on the mom-mobile. Reach and toss the crackers over the front seat, almost missing it again, but the rebound went the right direction. TWO POINTS!!!  Jump in the car, and the the car next to me and behind me is pulling out into each other…. near miss… time enough to open the box, the bag, and check out the looks of my new bestest little cheezyriffic friends.

Hello my little darlings.

The two cars fill the two spots that just cleared. I pop my first little taste of magnificance into my mouth and back out slowly.  The taste isn’t the same as Tidbits, but it’s better and less greasy than the square crackers that are readily available now, and they are instantly my new favorite cheeze cracker. Two more by the time I make it to the light to leave the parking lot.

Then it hits. Oh my delectible little cheezy crackers, how they hate my tummy.

Seriously, no processed food for nearly three weeks, and those hit my belly after I’ve been starving all afternoon.  It staged a revolt.  I feel like I got mildly gut punched.

I ate a few more anyway. What can I say. I sacrifice myself to the gods of crackerfied cheezefood.  It’s been SO LONG since I had a Tidbit. I just had to have a few more. I stopped after about 15 of them.  The stomach ache went away pretty quickly. It was almost worth it.

They’re really good. Tasty. Fun.

I have experienced cheezefood crackerness nearly at it’s best, once again. It’s probably best that they made me sick. I’d rather keep eating healthy for a while. But there’s this adorable little cracker out there once again. My world is just a little more complete.

The rest will be out on the table at the office tomorrow for everyone to try if they want.  I’m done with that box.

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In other news, these were on Cute Overload today, so I went to youtube and grabbed them because they made me giggle.

This could be modeled after my little girl cat:

She does this to Roomie, well, without the violence anyway:

Sorry for not posting too much lately. Exhaustion has been getting the better of me in the evenings when I usually do my writing. I’m almost off of the sleeping pills and not sleeping enough to get by. Today, between that and my structural issues (arthritic back) acting up, I broke down and took some Excedrin. That was 14 hours ago now and I’m still wired. I’m that sensitive to caffeine. The payoff is that I spent the majority of the day pain free for the first time in a week or two. The downside now is that I took a 1/2 lunesta and a single Tylenol PM pill to get some sleep tonight. I’m writing this while I’m waiting for it to hit.  I haven’t been so wired on caffeine in months. I felt high for a few hours there. It was kind of cool.

That’s it for now.  I’ll take an informal office poll tomorrow and find out who remembers Tidbits.

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