A Day of Unplanned Meals

Happy Friday everyone! I don’t know about you but I was ready for this weekend.

Today there was no planning involved in my meals. It started out with Starbucks.

I had a tall cup of coffee with cream and oatmeal with brown sugar and nut topping.

I love this breakfast. Even though their oatmeal is instant, it’s still a pretty good bowl of oats. I love that they have the toppings separate so you can fix it however you would like. It guess that’s why it’s called “perfect” oatmeal.

Lunch had to be fast because I had a doctor’s appointment. So I went with Lenny’s Subs.

I chose a turkey sandwich on whole wheat with all the veggies except onion and peppers. I ate most of it but their sandwiches are just so big that I couldn’t eat it all. I enjoyed every bite.

I had another grapefruit for a snack around 3:30.

This is how I slurp my grapefruit.

Tonight Kyle and I knew we wanted to go out to eat somewhere but just didn’t know where to go. We sat around trying to agree on a place. We finally decided on Bruno’s; it was a great pick!

I have been there once before but it was probably about 4 or 5 years ago. We love supporting locally owned restaurants. The experience didn’t start off so well. We were seated and served bread and water. Then we waited and waited and waited and no one ever came to take our order. Finally our waitress came over and apologized for not being there sooner. Here is what we ordered:

Kyle got

I got

We also had a few slices of:

And had a glass of:

It turned out being a really nice dinner.

Shipley’s just opened up in Maumelle and it’s calling my name! Kyle keeps saying he wants to go tomorrow but I really want to stay away. Let see if this happens.

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