Food Hunting

Food Hunting

Everyone has days like this, when
you start the day with left over
chocolate cake, followed immediately by
a protein-carbohydrate balanced
breakfast of eggs, fruit and yogurt.
Mid-morning, food hunting begins again
and food finding happens at the vending
machine or your office mate’s not-so-secret
stash of cookies and trail mix.
Feeling guilty, you eat the healthy
lunch you brought from home even
though you’re not hungry anymore.
Food hunting begins in earnest about
three, so off to the coffee shop for a
caffeine shot and cookie, a late
healthy dinner at home with the family.
Once they’re asleep, you look in
earnest for that final snack food,
that maybe is not so bad.
The kitchen fills with the sound
of popping kernels, the aroma of
fake butter, until suddenly the smell
is of burning popcorn and the fire
alarm is waking up the kids.
Embarrassed, you turn out the lights
and head to bed, snackless,

grateful that you finished the

chocolate cake today.

NOTE: “Food hunting” is a term used by my Italian friend, Luisa, to mean snacking. I thought it was a wonderful descriptor!

Photo courtesy of http://flickr.com/photos/chetcampbell/184341990/