Oh. My. God.

Simple.

Simple breakfast today- I made scrambled eggs and cantaloupe and the girls and I gobbled it up.  I wasn't hungry again until after my 1:00 meeting and had lunch at about 2:30- more cantaloupe and the last no-bake cookie. 

My energy held out until my usual mid-afternoon slump.  My hero, my best buddy, the big guy himself heard my cry for help and delivered a delicious honey-and-milk coffee to me from Redolencia. www.redolencia.com I stood at my computer (I stand at my computer) and bounced on my stability ball (I sit on a ball) and zipped through my afternoon high on my drug of choice.  Praise be to P-Daddy!

And then came dinner.  I worked late again and made it home around 6:00.  Kids were hungry, big guy was starved.  And we have nothing at the house.  So here is where REALITY comes in- what can we do with what we've got on hand?

Grilled cheese.  I made the peeps grilled ham-n-cheese with ketchup and strawberries.  Not the worlds most wholesome meal, here's how it panned out:

2% milk American singles
Keplinger's All Natural 100% Whole Wheat sandwich bread
Oscar Mayer Selects thin sliced Ham (no preservatives or HFCS)
All natural butter
"Simply" Heinz Ketchup (tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, sugar, salt, onion powder, spice, natural flavoring)
Fresh strawberries

Again, not whole food, but better-than-otherwise choices.

But that's not what I ate for dinner.  My grilled cheese dinner looked like this:

All natural Monterrey jack cheese
All natural butter
Organic whole wheat bread (whole wheat flour, water, sea salt)
Fresh strawberries
And here is where the OMG comes in- this was hands down the most delicious grilled cheese sandwich I have ever had.  It was amazing!

You must be thinking I am an idiot for getting excited about a three-ingredient grilled cheese sandwich.  Sorry, this is not your typical food blog full of ground-breaking recipes!  This experience is about eating real food while hanging on to real life with both hands.  I am totally proud of myself for scraping together a lame dinner for the family and managing to eat real food in the same pinch... real food that I was DROOLING over! 

This is exciting for me.  Simple is good.  Melty cheese is good.  Day #4 was a success.

Now, stay tuned for Day 5- I am up early, on the road all day, out to lunch with the Bos (spelled that way), and home to no groceries for dinner.  Wish me luck ;)