When Life Gives You Goat Cheese....

When life gives you Goat Cheese.....Make a Trader Joes Goat Cheese Salad!

Yep folks---that was the salad of the day and the metaphor of our last few days.

We'll expand on both.

First let's talk some more about TJ's.

There has been some concern around the high sodium content of our meals particularly because we have moved from Mexican Frozen entrees to Chinese and Thai frozen entrees. We all know that chinese food water retentiony feeling where you wake up in the morning with puffy eyes, bloating and sausage-like appendages.---

Since one of our primary reasons for doing this challenge was to see if eating Trader Joes exclusively for a month makes you hotter, we have to factor water retention into the equation.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sausage-like appendages might be your thing. We don't want to offend anyone reading this who enjoys chinese food or has woken up this morning with puffy eyes. Nor do we want to offend anyone who is currently suffering from water retention but the vote is in and water retention is....out.

Stay posted for our pics which will document our puffy-eyed journey through the Trader Joe Orient.

Going back to the earlier comment about Goat Cheese....on a personal note there have been some recent tragedies that have befallen us. We would like to take this moment to shake our humble fists at the heavens and scream out, "Why us?" Why us?"

On wednesday night after a party in San Francisco, we came back to Akiva's Cookie Department Car to find it broken into and his laptop stolen. Disgruntled and sad, we filed a police report and then drove back to the east bay. Akiva dropped Tallulah off at her Car and we drove up to our place at the top of a hill. On Tallulah's way up the hill she lost control of her car on the slippery roads and hit into 2 cars. She totalled two of them--one being hers:( and wrecked another. Sans a Macbook Pro, the back window of Akiva's car, and a Toyotal Celica Convertible we are however happy to report that we are OK.

We managed to preserve our great attitudes and even crack a joke or two.

Thank goodness that Trader Joe's is there for us. We decided to extend our challenge because of our monetary situation and the lack there of.

We'll need a couple more months to get back on our feet after Akiva's car is taken care of, he has a new laptop, and Tallulah has a new car. Arg!

What has made this tragic situation less tragic is knowing that we can still eat our salads every day and frozen entrees every evening and that we are on our way to hotness. Nothing is going to stop us---not even bloating and water retention, vandalism, robbery, car crashes, or whiplash. We thrive in the face of adversity and eating Trader Joe's every day has taught us that.

Yours,

Tallulah and Akiva