Is sliced Great Harvest bread!!
No joke.
Sliced veggies aren’t so bad either!
Smell of the earth:
I learned all about sandwich prep using the slicer, which was quite fun!
Uh oh.
“You’re not going to make me slice those onions are you!?!”
Whew. Thanks.
These monkeys did them instead!
After we were done for the day, Matt and I took a field trip to the Patagonia outlet! Last time I got my favorite pink furry kids size fleece here and a purple yoga tank top that I love. This time I did not intend to buy anything because I literally have ZERO space in my duffel bag…
but you know how that goes!!!
SCORE for these two awesome shirts that were $5 a piece and messages I want to wear on my body!
Also, I found my favorite tank top in two awesome colors on sale
And two cute running tops – one for winter, one for spring!
Once we returned to the hotel on foot, we put together our final hotel room dinner (although Matt will carry them on when I head home!)
Guess what favorite tinned food made its obvious appearance!?
Sardines!!! I found my favorite flavor and style at the Good Food Store! This brand is more expensive than others, but worth it for the smoky lemon flavor.
We turned them into sardine salad with a packet of mayonnaise and a hot sauce packet scavenged from salad bars and condiment stations during our trip. Plus 2 chopped carrots (cut on a paper plate with a butter knife by Matt!)
I was in charge of microwaving some broccoli + cauliflower that were seasoned with salt and pepper packets plus these two we stumbled upon:
Lastly we got a bag of Food Should Taste Good chips – Sweet Potato Flavor – for eating our sardines!
Perfect inexpensive dinner!
Tonight’s feature presentation was
another Montana movie
another Brad Pitt film
another story about brothers
“Legends of the Fall”!
More Brad Pitt hotness!
I loved both Montana movies!
We’re headed to bed. Round II of sandwich school is just a few hours away!
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I loveee taking condiments and spices from restaurants when I am traveling! It’s so perfect for making meals when you are not at home!
LOVE the clothing finds!!!! I have 2 “live simply” t-shirts and love them.
Love all of your finds from the Patagonia outlet. I need to shop at outlets more often. There are some great ones in Dallas. Cheers to round 2 of sandwich school! These posts leave me wanting a hunk of GH bread.
The bike shirt is too perfect for you! There’s no better feeling than finding awesome deals…and eating fresh bread.
Ah Brad Pitt, one of our prides from MO!
Love your inexpensive food ideas! Gotta get me some sardines after this
Legends of the Fall is such a great movie, but pretty sad. Can’t beat Brad!
Ha ha – I see you in the background holding your nose in the onion slicing pic.
So much GH bread! You are making me crave our local GH like no one’s business
I love the photo of the onions being sliced and you’re standing in the background holding your nose!
I LOVE onions. I would have been the one volunteering for that job!
Love the cute new shirts you got! I love getting great deals on clothes
yummy and FUN!!
Legends of the Fall! One of my all time fave movies ever! Brad Pitt never looked hotter.
Those shirts are perfect!!!
Okay, I kid you not, just one hour ago I was researching sardine recipes and thought to myself, “hmmm. I haven’t seen sardines on Kath’s blog in a while…”
3 Things I loved about this post:
1. Man those onions looked tasty.
2. You found amazing deals at my favorite Dillon store.
3. Your meal looked scrumptious and easy. Maybe I will give sardines another try! With a dark beer even!
Love the new tops, I wouldn’t be able to leave empty handed either.
Cute slicing pics, what a day!
Your new shirts are perfectly you!!! I love when that happens!
those shirts were well-worth the space – $5?! you would have been losing money if you hadn’t gotten them.
i don’t know about sardines, but whoa brad pitt sure was pretty back in the day (not that he’s bad looking now!).
Super cute shirts!
Legends of the Fall is SO good! The novella is good too – it is by one of my favorite authors, Jim Harrison.
thank the lord you didn’t have to slice those onions! just curious, did you ever cry when you did (if you EVER prepped them!??)
Have fun with your next sandwich school!
Hopefully you guys are not too tired!
Those sliced veggies are SOOO colorful!!! I love it!
I am loving all of the shirts you got… hopefully they’ll squeeze right in to your luggage! Or you could always just wear a few layers, ha. Do they have an online store? I’d love to have a shirt with messages like that
Love the two new t-shirts!
I am a condiment taker too! Never know when you’re going to need them
I love slicing food on slicers!! We have a small one at home, I really should use it more often!
I LOVE the ditch the car message – I live in the UK and I dont even know how to drive! Informal exercise is definitely the best way to stay healthy!
AND yes yes to slightly more expensive tinned sardines. I was always like ‘why splurge on tinned food?’ – but it makes them actually a really good meal, + super healthy and still really cheap. I like the portugese ones with chilli in the tin, served on cheesy kamut crackers (im getting really specific here
!) with hot sauce and crudite – YUM! xox
The colors in all of these pictures are stunning. Love the purple onions!
Ha ha…I spy Kath holding her nose while the guys cut onions! That’s a great picture!
You two are unbelievably creative with the hotel dinners!
Oh, I’m so envious of that industrial slicer! I used to work ina cafe that made lots of sandwiches, and I had to slice everything by hand…
LOVE LOVE LOVE these posts.
Onion face = giggles.
XOXO
Oh onions! They make me cry so much! Glad you didnt have to slce them!
THose shirts are so cute and great deals!!! I love finding good deals !
Have a great second day of sandwich school! : )
I love legends of the fall, so good. Great find on the tops and super cute.
I am beyond impressed with your ability to put together these romantic hotel dinners! You guys are truly travel savvy.
ooh that bread does look GOOD!
That’s it. I’m breaking into my can of sardines today. I just needed a little nudge. Thanks!
It’s a good thing they didn’t make you slice those onions! That would have been tragic!
Oh my gosh, Kath, I LOVE those shirts. I am bad when it comes to going in stores on vacation. Like you, even if I don’t “have room”, I will always find a way to “make” it! Your trip looks like so much fun! So jealous!
Hi! Love love love your blog but the Canadian in me had to speak up….Legends of the fall, although ‘takes place in Montana’ was actually filled just outside of Calgary Alberta Canada
The bread one was awesome!
Cannot wait to see what photos you post next
sorry, typo *filmed
Those slicers scare the crap outta me. Glad you still have all your finger tips!
XO
i am so impressed with y’all eating from the hotel so much…i would have probably just given up by now!
Haha, I you slicing onions! I am thinking that will not be your job in the shop! I love that movie too! I haven’t seen it in a while…I need to watch it again. Have fun at sandwich school today!
I officially want one of those sandwich veggie slicers now! No wait, scratch that, I NEED one!
I am still scared/intimidated by sardines. I’m not really sure why, though…
I love how thin the bell peppers came out after touching the slicer. Awesome for sandwiches and such!
Love the onion comment/photo!
I used a random Pizza Hut cheese packet on my pasta last night, too! I forgot to buy real parm and realized I had some of those leftover. Works in a pinch, right?
I’m still working up the nerve to try sardines. I ate them as a kid but now I’m scurred.
I’m not a Brad Pitt fan at all, but even I have to say he’s GORGEOUS in that last picture. If only he and Leonardo DiCaprio never aged!!
I agree – I don’t think either aged very well..
Big industrial slicers like that scare me a bit, but it looks like you’ve got it all under control! Hope you had a lovely movie night!
You got some great stuff at Patagonia! And I love the pic of you not wanting to slice the onions…haha
Last summer, my husband and I took a 2-week road trip from Dallas, east to the Carolinas through Tennessee, south to Florida, west to Houston and back to Dallas. We ate several meals in the car and in our hotel rooms like the ones you have been showing us. I am making notes for our next road trip to vary our car/hotel meals! Thanks!
Love the stuff from patagonia…I totally want some of those shirts! And Legends of the Fall is the best! I remember seeing it in the theatre!
Oh Brad! He’s so dreamy…
That bread looks amazing
!
I love those shirts!!! So cool!
I’ve never used a slicer on veggies before. Only on meats.
If I were at that pepper slicer I would slice a whole pepper, eat a slice, slice a pepper, eat a slice, repeat repeat repeat!!
Funny post! Love your face in the onion shot. I’m still not sold on the canned sardines though. Is there a strong fishy taste? I am always looking for easy ways to get more omega-3s in my diet, so I would love to use canned fish, but have always been to scared to try it.
I have never seen that color of sterile gloves!
The sardines do taste fishy, but not in a fish market way. More of a soft, buttery way. I think their richness is what I love most about them – it’s incredible! I tell people I believe they are THE healthiest food on the planet!!!
I have had a tin of sardines in my cupboard for about 6 months now. Spurred on by your blog to buy them, now really spurred on to eat them at last! (late reply, just catching up)
Yay for cute new shirts!
Boo to that slicer, though, I’m so scared of them. We used to have to use them when I worked in the cafeteria and I was super slow at it (out of fear!).
Jessica
Love the “Ditch the Car” tshirt!!
Nice shopping loot … I would have been powerless in the face of a Patagonia outlet. LOVE the “Ditch the Car” T-shirt.
LOVE those t-shirts and LOVE Legends of the Fall.
I have always been afraid to try sardines too–my mother eats them all the time and I think they smell awful. I just watched ‘Fish fight’ on BBC though so now I feel compelled to try different types of fish! I suppose I will take the sardine plunge!
LOVE Legends of the fall! It was filmed by my hometown in Alberta and Brad bought a house there after he was finished. I doubt he ever visits!
So will you be wearing 6 layers on the plane to get those new shirts home?! I’m picturing Joey from Friends when he puts on all of Chandler’s clothes.
Is it weird that when seeing a bunch of perfectly sliced veggies makes me SMILE ?? ;P
I love Legend of the Fall. So glad you enjoyed it.
Love the clothes! I want to go to a patagonia outlet stat!
I love the “ditch the car” t-shirt! As a car-free bicycle commuter I must have one! Unfortunately it seems to be “unavailable” at online retailers.
I love the “Eat Local” shirt! I can’t believe the awesome deal you scored on it!
$5 bucks? That’s a steal!
I wanted to let you know that thanks to you, I just bought, ate, and enjoyed a can of sardines! I am not a picky eater, but they freaked me right out with their little spines sticking out all over the place. I tried them though, and they were quite yummy mixed with some chopped onion, pickle, carrot, lemon basil and mayo. Thanks for inspiring me to try them!
Yay!!
The author of Legends of the Fall (Jim Harrison) writes about this area of Montana in many of his novels. He’s amazing and you run into him often in the area.
I NEED a patagonia outlet in my life oh so badly!!
Years ago I worked at the mall right next door to a Great Harvest Bread Co. OH man….around the same time every day the whole place would smell wonderfully from the baked bread. It was so tempting!