I'd Rather Be At Burger King

"YO DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! I'm ready for some food. No, not the boob juice. I'm ready for some real food. You know, rice mushed up in boob juice? Yeah, that's what I want. Give me a chance and I'll make you proud."

How could we turn down that request. Last night we decided to give Max his first chance at solid foods. And when I say solid foods, I really mean 2% more solid then boob juice by mixing in some rice flake things for babies. But he did get to eat from a spoon, so that's pretty adult.

Max watched us eat every night from his bouncy chair on our table, so I think he was fully ready to embrace the spoon. As we put the spoon closer to his mouth, he opened right up and took it and started chewing.

His first reaction was "what the frizzoodles?" But that didn't last too long.

By the second or third spoonful he was leaning in to get more in his mouth - he was so psyched. His little jaw was chomping away. He was taking it in so fast that it soon became apparent we needed to get out a bib.

Which he used to wipe his goobered up face in no time.

This is the face of a very satisfied baby boy. While he'd probably have rather been at Burger King for his first meal, this one was probably easier to digest. To go from boob juice to Whopper in one step is quite the leap.

He ate about half a cup and was done.

Hooray indeed Max - you rock! Congrats on your first spoon feeding dude!

New York Food Essentials

Because this blog has such a strong thematic tie to delicious food products, I find it necessary to report on the food aspects of our trip to New York City before anything else can be reported. Below is the list of restaurants/bakeries/dessert shops we visited in our short trip:

1. Shake Shack

2. Rice to Riches

3. Joya Thai (round 1)

4. Blue Marble Ice Cream5. Big Nick's Whole Wheat Pizza (pictured Parmesan cheese)6. Levain Bakery

7. Yogurtland

8. Grey Dog Sandwiches

9. Magnolia Bakery (Upper West Side Location)

10. Maoz Vegetarian

11. Tasti-D-Lite type knock off

12. Taqueria La Fonda

13. Joya (round 2)14. Brooklyn Flea Market baker

15. Brother's Burger King

There obviously were a million other places I would have liked to fit in there. The following list are some more notable ones. Possible excuses for not going are tight budget, wrong location, and lack of time:

Blue Ribbon Bakery, The Burger Joint, Peasant, Momofuku Ssam Bar, Country Kebab Inn, Doma (my first date with Caitlin), Pampano, Nobu, and the dumpling place. I guess we'll just have to keep coming back. What would you have suggested we hit?

Future posts will detail NY activities.

The Costs Are Just Too High For This Dish

I am studying for my finance exam next Tuesday. It has me thinking about money all day long. The test will focus on forecasting and investment analysis. While I doing the forecasting for a fake company this morning, I suddenly thought, "how much does my breakfast cost?"

Caitlin and I eat oatmeal with frozen blueberries and almonds nearly every morning. With the question at hand, we figured out that we can eat oatmeal 60 times in three months at a total cost of about $0.25 per bowl. That is really cheap. Seriously - $0.20 for a huge bowl of delicious, filling oatmeal?

That got me thinking - how can I justify a $5 Taco Bell lunch expenditure when the cost of a bowl of oatmeal is only $0.25? Was the value of a Taco Bell lunch nearly 20x greater to me than that of the oatmeal? I know there is a need for variety in life, but does that constitute the 20x increase in price? Am I crazy?

I pondered on that for about two seconds, but the answer was clear. Yes, Taco Bell (or Burger King for that matter) is worth 20x more to me than the oatmeal. A 20oz Mountain Dew is also worth more to me than five bowls of oatmeal. I love those two products so much.

I Sick

I Sick. I really sick. And what happens when I get sick? I get really whiny and all I want to eat is Burger King. It is my comfort food. It heals me. So when Caitlin called on her way home from work last night and asked if she could do anything for me...
Yeah Stephoin, that is zesty sauce you see on that plate. Caitlin loves me.