Jeff's 37th Birthday

Hi. It was my 37th birthday on Sunday. 37 is kind of boring. 36 was 6 squared, so that was exciting. I guess 37 is a prime number, and it's been six years since the last prime number birthday, so there's that. Ah, you guys don't care about math, you want to see some food. First, since I took the photos, I should mention I always try to go to the closest Sox game to my birthday. This year it was two days before my birthday:

The tickets were front row in the bleachers. There was a big empty aisle in front of me so I was obsessed with the chance I could get a HR ball. The game was terrible, the Sox lost 2-0 to the Yankees and I didn't come close to a HR ball. Can this season just end already? Then the next night Heather and I saw Bloc Party at the House of Blues:

Concert photos with a phone are always bad. 

Anyway, let's get to my birthday. I got to sleep in. I woke up around 7:45, but didn't get out of bed until 9am. That's sleeping in for me. Heather got me breakfast. So here comes the food, are you excited? Bam:

Jeff Goes to Whole Foods

I'm fairly new to shopping at Whole Foods as I've never lived close to one. Recently two opened near me so I've been easing into shopping there.

Here's how my typical shopping trip to Whole Foods goes: I usually go intending to get some specific item. This is usually beer. They have a good beer selection. But I always figure I'll get some other groceries while I am there. So I start shopping, and then I see something like this:

Fiddlehead Ferns for $7 a pound. It looks like an aggressive garden weed. I wish I could sell my aggressive garden weeds for $7 a pound. Then I start thinking that since this food doesn't exist in the natural world, Whole Foods is creating foods willy nilly. I then just want to leave. I go buy my intended item (beer) and get the rock out of there. 

Last year a Whole Foods opened on my usual biking route. So sometimes I take a break and grab some food and a beverage. I first head to the beverage wall and grab some beverage that is on sale, then check out the prepared food wall looking first at sale items (my wife has me trained well). If there's nothing good I get pizza. Pizza is never bad.

I've been there four times recently. I took pictures so now you have to look at them:

MEAL ONE

It's the Nantucket Nectars Non-Arnie with a small salami sandwich. Well, I guess I'll have to do a separate Nantucket Nectars Non-Arnie post, but I'll just say it tastes good, but it has almost twice the amount of calories as a Regular Arnie, so who cares, I prefer a Regular Arnie.

The sandwich was pretty good. Too many roasted peppers, they overwhelmed the delicious salami taste. 

MEAL TWO

It's Whole Food's meat lover's pizza with Organic Non-Arnie. This meat lover's slice was their special of the day. It was really good. The Organic Non-Arnie was also good, but again it has a lot more calories than a Regular Arnie, so no post for you.

MEAL THREE

Now this was a weird meal for me. I wasn't too hungry so I got some fresh shrimp spring rolls (VALUE ITEM!) and a Watermelon Strawberry beverage. I ate 1.5 spring rolls before I noticed there was a sauce packet underneath. The sauce was surprisingly good, it was pretty spicy too. 

MEAL FOUR

This one was a complete disaster. At the beverage wall, I got drawn to a sign for a beverage for $.69. As I got closer, I noticed the sign was messed up and it was $1.69. I went for it anyway. It is Granny Squibb's Unsweetened Lemon/Mint Tea. I usually avoid unsweetened tea, because I need some sweet, but this one had stuff floating around in it, so I figured it might be OK. It was not. It was marginally better than drinking tap water. I also got the Black Bean and Cheese burrito. It was on sale for $4. It was one of the worst burritos I've ever had, and I've had some bad burritos.  I got it because I thought it was a good deal, then I later remembered at Anna's their vegetarian quesadilla is less than $4. I ate about 1/3 of it and threw the rest away.  

In conclusion, I am the worst Whole Foods shopper, and I should always get a slice of pizza when I go there.