First of all my local Stop & Shop was kind enough to stop carrying our favorite allergen free Chicken which is a major bummer for me & the kids. They have recently expanded to carrying a lot more gluten free items - but not a lot that are both gluten & casein free - and no chicken nuggets. It was so incredibly convenient to be able to pick up a fast and favored dinner without needing a bank loan.
Next, Wegmans no longer carries our Wellshire Kids Chicken Bites which both of my children covet. Even my daughter who is not gluten free - LOVES these. Wegmans no longer carries these and the local health food stores want close to $8 for the small bag. I am currently holding my breath until the temperature drops and I can order my case of these online as I've done in the past. My kids have missed these all summer since I refuse to pay double for them locally or risk ordering them and having the whole package dethaw and go bad during shipping.
Which leaves me to going to my local health food stores and paying too much. I'll do this in a pinch - if I need small quantities but not when the freezer and pantry is close to empty.
Why is it that allergen free food is so expensive???
I was in desperate need to go shopping so yesterday I mentioned that I was going to go to have to go to Wegmans (and suck up the fact that they don't have Chicken Bites). I asked Alex if he would like to go with me since Wegmans has a cool train that goes around at the top of the ceiling that the kids love. The advantage to Wegmans is that I can get most of Alex's shopping done as well as for the rest of the family right then and there. I love Wegmans - it reminds me of home since it is from upstate NY where I hail from.
Alex absolutely no way, no how, did not under any circumstances want to go to Wegmans. He wanted to go to Stop & Shop. I explained that Stop & Shop didn't have his chicken. How about Whole Foods? Yes! "Wole Foods" as he calls it. Little Sister then started in on how she wanted to come too. It is so much easier to just shop with one child. Of course, if I announce I'm going someplace (like to the grocery store) they both want to go - so I can furgeddaboudit. Baby sister wanted to go to Whole Foods but she was wearing Princess Pajamas. I suggested she put on some clothing first instead of pjs which was a source of much angst for her.
To which I twittered:
3 year old is insisting to go to Whole Foods in her Princess Pajamas! about 21 hours ago from web
and got the following responses:
healingsoul @hellokittiemama Please let little princess go to whole food...this is what being 3 yo is all about! (o: about 20 hours ago from web in reply to hellokittiemama
mommastantrum @hellokittiemama let her go. there are worse things she could be insisting on...like snorting crack! about 21 hours ago from web in reply to hellokittiemama
healingsoul @hellokittiemama Please let little princess go to whole food...this is what being 3 yo is all about! (o: about 20 hours ago from web in reply to hellokittiemama
mommastantrum @hellokittiemama let her go. there are worse things she could be insisting on...like snorting crack! about 21 hours ago from web in reply to hellokittiemama
Question for you all:
Do you let your kids go to the grocery store in Pajamas?
As much I would like to encourage her to go out in clothes (not pajamas) I probably would have let her go to the grocery store in PJs if she really wanted to. I'm sure she'd change her mind 20 times on the 40 minute ride there and demand I turned around and put different clothes on, anyways. As it turned out, she put on different clothes by the time we got organized enough to head out (and I took a nap first - bad headache).
hellokittiemama 3 year old did whole foods in a skirt with pants-- dressed herself!about 16 hours ago from TwitterBerry
hellokittiemama 3 year old did whole foods in a skirt with pants-- dressed herself!about 16 hours ago from TwitterBerry
And of course my husband's 2 cents on the trip:
kurtgw Trapped at Whole Foods with the Prius driving crowd. Such is the life of a dad with a GFCF kid. about 17 hours ago from TwitterBerry
The kids and I used our recyclable bags, to which my husband made fun of those too. Belle even loaded her organic animal crackers into a tiny pink hello kitty bag - tres cute. Oh, and - Alex's highlight of the trip - they had his coveted Wellshire Kids Chicken Bites. Aaaaah... yes!
The kids and I used our recyclable bags, to which my husband made fun of those too. Belle even loaded her organic animal crackers into a tiny pink hello kitty bag - tres cute. Oh, and - Alex's highlight of the trip - they had his coveted Wellshire Kids Chicken Bites. Aaaaah... yes!
The kids happily ate their gfcf dino nuggets and all was well in the world.
hellokittiemama overheard from the kitchen: "ate your head", "Ate your neck", "I'm eating you all right up". No - kids aren't cannibals. GFCF dino chicken about 15 hours ago from web
hellokittiemama overheard from the kitchen: "ate your head", "Ate your neck", "I'm eating you all right up". No - kids aren't cannibals. GFCF dino chicken about 15 hours ago from web
The End.
6 comments:
We don't wear pajamas out and about, but do resort to sweat pants a lot. I remember Diva wore her pretty dress and her pooh bear slippers (big fuzzy yellow slippers with Pooh Bear head on the toe) to her Great Grandmother's wedding! - it was the first time she let us put anything on her feet and she refused to take them off :0)
I can just picture Belle with her cookies in her Hello Kitty bag - too cute!
So glad the chicken nuggets were back! I hate it when they discontinue one of my staples. I wish we had a Whole Food close by.
It is so frustrating when ingredient lists change or stores stop carrying certain allergen-free items, isn't it?
I enjoyed reading your Tweets from the store, both in real time and in a blog post. :)
We lost those chicken bites from stores up here in central Jersey too. Go to
http://www.wellshirefarms.com/
and order online - even with shipping it turns out to be cheaper then the stores anyway.
Anon -
I do order them online - by the 10 or 20... I just won't do it in the summer/hot weather because I am skeeved that they will dethaw get yucky. Now that it is getting cooler, I'll be back to ordering them again online. That's why the kids missed them - summer and the stores stopping carrying them.
I guess I am kind of in Central NJ too depending on how you look at it.
I sometimes go to the grocery store in my pajamas. Is that a bad thing?
mommastantrum @hellokittiemama let her go. there are worse things she could be insisting on...like snorting crack! about 21 hours ago from web in reply to hellokittiemama
If Isabelle had the slightest idea there *was* such a thing as snorting crack, she would probably want to do it just to fight with you about it.
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