My wife and I are celebrating our 13th wedding anniversary. We are currently staying in a hotel overlooking Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. We actually came to the hotel yesterday. We had brought some pretzels with us, and but no other snacks. Our room has a small fridge with overpriced drinks (liquor, beer, wine). We were not interested in there alcoholic beverages at all, but we did load it up with Diet Pepsi, and Diet A&W Root Beer that we had brought with us. We went out for an overpriced dinner last night at TGI Fridays, but we wanted some snack foods. We headed off in search of a grocery store. But they were closed as it was now 7:30 on a Sunday night. We took note of where it was, and head back to the hotel. We just snacked on the pretzels.
Today after a quick trip back to the US side to mail off our taxes, we headed to the grocery store. I wanted some bananas. I thought about bringing some with it, but was leery of trying to cross the border with produce. In the grocery store, we bought 3 bunches of bananas (a little green), and 2 bags of red grapes. I found some tapioca pudding made with skim milk. Each pudding has 120 calories and 3 grams of fat. The Canadian packaging doesn’t list calories from fat, but at 9.5 calories per gram of fat, that works out to 28.5 calories or about 24% calories from fat. The chocolate and vanilla flavors each had 4 grams of fat. I would have preferred fat-free pudding but didn’t see any. Too bad our hotel didn’t have a microwave. We could have maybe found some fat-free hotdogs, gotten some buns, and ketchup. Yum! We do have a coffee maker. I wonder if I could cook the hotdogs by letting them sit in the carafe of heated water? That could be interesting to try. We will be here for a couple more days.
LOL! I just realized that I don’t have spoons for the pudding.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on April 16th, 2007 |