I like ice cream. A lot! And if it's in the house, it will call to me. "Tracy . . . come here....I'm just hanging out in the freezer. Grab a spoon. Treat yourself to a few bites. You deserve it."
A few bites turns into a few more bites and before I know it, the container is empty. Most frequently the ice cream in question is a pint of Ben & Jerry's - either Vanilla Carmel Fudge or Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream.
Eating like this, of course, is not healthy to do on a daily - or even weekly - basis. And so I've developed rules for Ice Cream Management.
Rule #1: Don't buy ice cream.
Rule #2: If you do buy ice cream, eat it all right away so that it's gone and no longer able to tempt you.
Yes - there are only two rules but they work. Very well. In fact, I follow these same two rules for Annie's Mac-n-Cheese. And Kozy Shack chocolate pudding. And....
*photo: I Splurged on Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream by Heather Weaver used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.
A few bites turns into a few more bites and before I know it, the container is empty. Most frequently the ice cream in question is a pint of Ben & Jerry's - either Vanilla Carmel Fudge or Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream.
Eating like this, of course, is not healthy to do on a daily - or even weekly - basis. And so I've developed rules for Ice Cream Management.
Rule #1: Don't buy ice cream.
Rule #2: If you do buy ice cream, eat it all right away so that it's gone and no longer able to tempt you.
Yes - there are only two rules but they work. Very well. In fact, I follow these same two rules for Annie's Mac-n-Cheese. And Kozy Shack chocolate pudding. And....
*photo: I Splurged on Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream by Heather Weaver used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.
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