Hello! How is your Monday going?! Mine is moving right along. I actually worked over the amount of hours I am allowed last week, so I am going to try to cut out early today. Let’s see if I can. Since we are a little low on the food front in the FFF household, I didn’t bring my lunch today. Instead, I met my friend Melissa for lunch as the cafeteria in her work building. I love having a little lunch date! 99.9% of the time I eat lunch at my desk, so it was a welcomed change 
The cafeteria had a giant salad bar, so that is what I got.
My salad contained:
- Spring Mix
- Grape tomatoes
- chickpeas
- kidney beans
- green olives
- cucumbers
- pimentos
- artichoke hearts
- grilled chicken
I topped it with balsamic vinegar! Sometimes, I really just love having only vinegar on a salad, no oil, no dressing.
I also had a side of veggie soup. The cold rainy day had me CRAVING soup and this hot veggie soup really hit the spot.
While working a few hours later, my sweet tooth kicked into high gear. So I grabbed a Kashi dark chocolate oatmeal cookie out of my snack drawer.
These cookies are oh so good!!! I think that was my last one 
In Other News:
I actually ordered our groceries from Peapod this morning For those of you who don’t know, Peapod is a delivery service that works with Stop and Shop (one of our local grocery stores) that allows you to order your groceries online and have then delivered right to your house. Pretty cool, right? They will actually be delivered tomorrow night between 4pm and 6pm. I have work, then class, then am working at my part-time job after class tomorrow night, and have to spend Wednesday after work working a paper for Thursday night’s class. So, I really could not find a time to get to the store for weekly shopping. Adam will be home tomorrow night to receive the groceries.
I normally prefer to grocery shop myself in person. Since I am pretty much a giant foodie, I actually really like the grocery store a lot. But, since I ordered the groceries online this week it got me thinking about what the pros and cons are for groceries being ordered online and delivered to your door.
Pros:
- They get delivered right to you.
- If you have no car you and normally walk to take public transit to the store, this allows you to order more than you can carry.
- You see what your grand total is the whole time you are shopping so budgeting is easier.
- You can see the nutritional information online as you shop.
- HUGE TIME SAVER!
Cons:
- You don’t get to pick your meats and produce like you do at the grocery store.I can be picky about those two things, so this is a big con for me.
- You have to make sure someone is available during a certain window of time for delivery (usually 2-3 hour window).
- Some places have a delivery charge.
- It they are out of something, they don’t replace it with a like product, so you may go without something.
What are your thoughts on groceries being delivered? Can you think of other pros and cons? Have you done it before? If so, how was your experience?
For Adam and I this works for us this week, but I think that it will surely be an every once in a while thing, since I love doing the shopping myself.
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I have never seen anything like that! That would be such a huge time savor for me, but at the same time I enjoy going to the grocery store! I typically end up making 3 small trips throughout the week and it is just WAYYY too much to do! Let us know how the food turns out!
That lunch looks awesome! I love getting out for lunch every now and then too.
I’ve never had my groceries delivered, but I think it’s a really great option for when you’re short on time.
I order peapods at my work, I LOVE it!! I’ve never done it at home though, I never seem to know in advance what I need at the store these days!
It would be great if I could have my groceries delivered during busy weeks every once and a while. I do really love grocery shopping so it would have to be a super hectic week for me to be unable to squeeze in a trip to the store. I look forward to the grocery store
I am interested to see what the produce and meat looks like. I would guess that they would want you to use their service so they would take care in choosing. I have never used such a service but I can see how it would be beneficial.
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YUUUM – gotta love gigantic salads!
Way to go, girl
Amazing post, btw!
Have a great week!
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
I use freshdirect! Same thing as peapod
I love it b/c it’s easy to plan my meals and I can do it from work vs. grocery shopping after work/carrying it all alone 
Sara
I love going grocery shopping, but I can see how this could be really helpful when you are short on time. I think it’s a great idea!
Heather@www.forthehealthofit01.wordpress.com
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