temptation

May 25, 2012

How does one person end up with this many bags of chocolate chips, you might wonder?  Well, it’s just that when I go to the store I imagine my cupboard bare of them, then in my mind I see myself reaching for them after my meal and finding none, and so I throw a bag (or even better, a chocolate bar or a box of white chocolate squares) in my shopping cart ‘just in case’.  And now I have, well, a lot of chocolate chips to eat.  Mostly by myself.  Because as much as I love my children and do lots of things for them, I just have a really hard time sharing those chocolate chips with them.  When Matt is home and I hear the bag rustling, I narrow my eyes and casually wander through the kitchen to “get a glass of water” while I watch how many he’s eating.  And see where I keep them?  Yep, on the very top shelf where I imagine I am the only one who can see them.  It’s a terrible habit, one that is sure to bring me cavities and weight and all kinds of badness.  And yet, that little handful of chocolate, especially when I’ve had a rough day taking care of kids all by myself (see?  I need them!  poor me!!), is just too, too tempting.

And now that I’m writing this and confessing it, I’m going to go ahead and quit doing it.  Goodbye chocolate chips!

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12 Comments

  • Reply Janet May 25, 2012 at 9:10 am

    Ha, funny, that was me for the longest time ( unfortunately I can no longer eat them) such a great little snack.
    🙂

  • Reply Kristi May 25, 2012 at 9:17 am

    This made me laugh! So yummy – and tempting!

  • Reply Jenn May 25, 2012 at 9:20 am

    Sometimes you just need some chocolate chips to get you through. 🙂 And I keep the white chocolate ones because they don’t have caffeine and I wouldn’t want a chocolate sneak to keep me up at night.

    And I laughed and laughed over your little kitchen wander.

  • Reply tracey May 25, 2012 at 10:06 am

    This made me smile BIG bc you have no idea how alone you are in this. (Now I know that you and Stacey were cut from the same cloth! Ha!)
    But it also made me smile to know a little something about you.

  • Reply mailli May 25, 2012 at 10:26 am

    You made me giggle as loud as you can and not laugh, and the whole time I had a GIGANTIC smile(-: on my face(-:I still do:-)

  • Reply Naomi May 25, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    ha! Thanks for the giggle. I must have chocolate daily, Must. You are not alone. A little here and there really is OK. really. 🙂

  • Reply Andrea May 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    I’m a sucker for Dark Chocolate Chips! Could eat the entire bag.
    Love this photo of those chips WAY up high. Fun to find out little tidbits about you. 🙂

  • Reply rhonda May 25, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    I do the EXACT same thing!

  • Reply Mindy May 25, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    Mmmmmm. Chocolate!!! Even better when there is peanut butter involved!!

  • Reply Heidi May 25, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    I’m loving these food posts!

    We put the goodies on the top shelf too. Only problem is – they’re out of the kids’ reach but eye level for me and my husband. Very tempting.

  • Reply Jean May 25, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    I once ate a bag all by myself in a day!! But I was in high school and I too, didn’t have to worry about that 6 letter word, weight!!

    Love how you wander through the kitchen to “just get a glass of water.” 😉

  • Reply Amanda May 25, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    I do the same thing…I might need to have them in my house 🙂 Cute post! You are much stronger than me, my pantry is still packed with all that sweetness!

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