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You are here: Home / Lifestyle / Nate: The Blog Stalker

May 26, 2009

Nate: The Blog Stalker

Breakfast with my Friends

Hello KERF fans! I’m Kath’s friend Nate. I’ve got a blog if you want to go check it out sometime. Welcome to my breakfast, and thanks for stopping by.

I was feeling like oats this morning., so I went to my magic cabinet

Oatmeal Cabinet

And then I grabbed some oats and topping goodness

Oatmeal Cabinet Open

Yes, we have an entire cabinet devoted just to my oatmeal stash. I did pick a cabinet that Kate can’t reach, so it’s a good way for me to keep her away from my Barney Butter and other obscure nut butters.

Here’s the finished product

nate breakfast

Today’s Mix

  • · ½ Cup Each of Old Bob’s Rolled Oats, Water, and Skim Milk
  • · ½ super ripe banana
  • · Spoonful of Brown Sugar
  • · 17 Butterscotch Chips
  • · 18 Toffee Sprinkles
  • · 33 flakes of Cocoanut
  • · Big spoonful of Barney Butter

Please note that I mix my toppings into the oatmeal. Despite what Kath says, this is the way to go.

We had our usual house guests over for breakfast. Matt and Meredith didn’t want any oats

breakfast friends

My daily ritual includes rattling my spoon when I’m finished with my oats. This alerts Gilbert (who is still up in bed) that it is time for him to come down and lick the bowl

Gilbert Breakfast

I’m pretty sure that he’d just stay up in bed all day if I didn’t eat my oats.

Kate was not interested in a morning photo, but she used her Juicing Monster

Juicer

And used whatever this stuff is

Juice Ingredients

And somehow it ended up looking like this

Kate Juice

So that was breakfast. Gilbert and I said goodbye to Kate, Matt, and Meredith and got started on our day at home. I work from home, so we do lots of male bonding during the day.

See you all after lunch.

Lunch: WWU

Hi Everyone. Welcome back. After breakfast, Gilbert and I went for our mile walk on the greenway.

Greenway

Then we came home. Gilbert had some water, and I had some garbage water

Garbage Water

Don’t hate. I know it’s not the made from the best stuff on earth, but I love my sweet nectar. I have recently cut my consumption from 48 oz/day to 24 oz/day, so that’s something, I guess.

Lunch was pretty boring. I thought I should do something fancy since I’m posting on KERF, but that’s not really my style, and I wanted to give you a realistic day in the life. So lunch came in this box by way of the freezer

WW Box

3.5 minutes later we were left with this

Ziti

Sorry that my ziti isn’t very photogenic. These six points of goodness should keep me full until dinner. I have a long history with Weight Watchers and their red boxes. I hold multiple degrees from WWU (Weight Watchers University) – having gone from fatty to lifetime member and back a couple of times (probably not something to be proud of). I could fill a scrapbook with all of my WWU flare (ribbons, pins, booklets, etc). So lunch with the little red box is sort of a trip down memory lane for me.

Enough about that. My friend Martha joined us for lunch. I think she was making cupcakes

Martha

After lunch settled (and Martha said goodbye for the day) I went for a run on the greenway. Here are the stats:

  • · Distance – 4 Miles
  • · Pace – Really Slow
  • · Music – Mostly Taylor Swift, but also a little old Jay Z and new Eminem
  • · My Singing – Loud and Really Bad

This concludes my lunch post. Sorry…I’m sure that a frozen meal and Diet Mountain Dew isn’t what you’re looking for on KERF. I’ll try to make up for it with dinner.

Dinner: Traditional Gender Roles

Hi Everyone. Thanks for coming back to share dinner with me. I have to admit, Kate and I were initially going to go out to dinner for this post. We actually went out to a restaurant last night to practice being food bloggers – you know taking pictures of menus and meals and stuff. I took two pictures and felt like a crazy person. I don’t know how these full-time food bloggers do it. Everyone was staring at me and it just felt weird. So we decided to have dinner at home instead.

We went all Revolutionary Road and stuck to our traditional gender roles…Man cook meat on grill, woman make salad in kitchen.

Here’s my grilling style. I stand outside and drink beer while the grill does most of the work.

grill man

While I was grilling, Kate made the salad and sweet potatoes in the kitchen. She also had some hippie little kid cereal as an appetizer

Kate Appetizer

It’s called “EnviroKidz Organic Peanut Butter Panda Puffs.” They spell Kidz with a z because the EnviroKidz are from the streets, yo.

And here’s the salad

Salad

We decided to open a bottle of St. Supery’s 2006 Syrah

Wine

I found it to be a vibrant wine with deep red and purple hues and elegant aromas of ripe sweet berries with a hint of toast. Well, not really, but that’s what the bottle says. I give it two thumbs up.

Here’s my plate

Nate Dinner

I was well on my way to finishing that large slab of meat when Kate said:

So are you going to eat that whole steak or are you going to save some of it?

This made me really self conscious, so I decided to save about a quarter of this piece of cow. It will probably go in a salad for lunch tomorrow. I absolutely could’ve housed this with dinner, but I’m sort of glad that I didn’t.

Matt stopped by earlier to say hello to me and Gil and he dropped off a Great Harvest Turtle Bar. I ate about half of this. Then I helped Kate with her half. It was as good as it looks.

Dessert

So that’s a day in the life of me and my food. The rest of our evening will probably include watching The Real Housewives and reading a bunch of food blogs. Thanks for reading, and have a great night! Oh, and stop by and say hi on my blog if you get bored sometime.

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Comments

  1. Ali says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:38 am

    I’m a sucker for Diet Mountain Dew also. I TRY to limit myself to one a day, but sometimes I fail miserably.

    Reply
  2. Mariposa says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Hi Nate! : ) love the post!!!!

    Reply
  3. Anna says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:42 am

    I have a hard time taking pictures in restaurants too… people look at me like I’m a freak.

    Reply
  4. Lara (Thinspired) says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Hi Nate! I really enjoyed your guest post It’s nice to gt a man’s perspetive with food, weight loss, etc, sometimes. Mountain Dew isn’t my thing but I do love a diet soda every once in a while! Life is just too short to go without things you enjoy, right?!

    Reply
  5. Mara @ What's For Dinner? says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:48 am

    This post is great! I’m totally diggin’ on the WWU reference, as I’m currently working on my PhD in Point Counting!

    Reply
  6. K says

    May 26, 2009 at 7:59 am

    First of all, I’m jealous of your Barney Butter. Are you sure you didn’t have 34 flakes of coconut? Loved the guest post!!

    Reply
  7. Lisa says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:00 am

    This post made me giggle! Thanks for getting my pseudo-Monday started with a smile.

    Reply
  8. JennyA says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:25 am

    Sometimes I sneak Diet Coke. Shhhh….. If my SO sees me drinking one, he’ll literally wrench it from my hands because he doesn’t want me to ingest artificial sweeteners. He really has my best interests at heart. However, sometimes I just want a Diet Coke. Not a regular Coke – has to be diet. His parents have a ready supply in their garage, so I will grab one and drink it behind their shed. I feel naughty and it hearkens back to my high school days, only then it was with beer, or whatever alcohol my parents had stashed in the linen closet. Now I can drink a beer if I want to and it’s soda I’m sneaking. Wow, I just realized I’m old.

    Reply
  9. Holly says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:28 am

    You are so precise with your measurements 🙂

    Glad I could start out Tuesday with a laugh!

    Reply
  10. JennyA says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Also, “They spell Kidz with a z because the EnviroKidz are from the streets, yo” made me laugh and I will always think that in my head when I buy my son’s “bear bars”, as he calls them. Love your post and your blog, Nate!!!

    Reply
  11. Sarah says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Love the oats cabinet, I need to make one of those myself, not that I have to worry about anyone borrowing stuff from it though, I’m all on my own with that 😉

    Reply
  12. Sara says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Great post, Nate! I really enjoyed your precise stats. Good stuff.

    Reply
  13. adrianna says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:38 am

    best guest post yet… nate and kate rock!

    Reply
  14. Karin says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:43 am

    Fabulous post. Your blog always makes my day.

    Reply
  15. Sarah says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:45 am

    I love the 33 pieces of coconut! And I’ve attended WWU several times myself!

    Your blog always makes me giggle!!

    Reply
  16. Sara says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:55 am

    nate,
    don’t tell kath, but i really enjoyed your post!!! do you have your own blog? i would definitely read it!

    Reply
  17. Angelea says

    May 26, 2009 at 8:55 am

    LOVE IT!

    Kate-you’ve got your hands full, huh? 😉

    Reply
  18. amber says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:06 am

    By far my favorite guest post thus far. Very in the KERF style. I hope we see more from Nate.

    Reply
  19. klm says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Are place mats a staple at the house of Nate + Kate?

    You are kinda funny– do you have your own blog?

    It should be called Nate + Kate + One (Gilbert)..

    Reply
  20. Mom says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Great post. Will you send Martha to my house next to make cupcakes? Thanks.

    Barbara

    Reply
  21. amy says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:19 am

    funny post! this i am enjoying all the guest posts! what a great idea.
    amy from los angeles

    Reply
  22. Kate says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:32 am

    Thanks for posting Nate. I think its cool that you showed us what you actually eat instead of changing for the blog. I love diet soda and the red boxes too especially Angel hair marinara and those egg mcmuffins. You should be proud of going back to WW ehen you need it, you know it works!

    Reply
  23. jen says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:46 am

    You are so funny-love your style of humour!
    So refreshing from all of our “serious” food blogs and well needed for us to take a chuckle at ourselves in this bizarre food/diary land .
    What has happened to our society that we are all reading what people eat all day and their daily habit….it’s addictive reading and yet I also think has a bit of a tie to reality tv and this whole trend….big brother(and all the rest of us!)are tuning in to see what Kath will eat,what Jenna will drink, what Tina will think…etc etc!
    Slightly creepy, but I’m as guilty in the amount of time I spend reading them….well better than reading Perez Hilton or something tabloidish I guess!
    Keep up the humour!You should guest post here often 🙂

    Reply
  24. Allison says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:47 am

    I suspect this will be the most popular guest post…pretty hillarious and also pretty realistic for how most guys eat…except that if I’d asked my husband if he was going to finish the steak, he would have said “yeah, I am ….”

    Reply
  25. Christie @ BeadLuvah says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Awesome post!

    Reply
  26. Marcia says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:51 am

    You crack me up. I will have to check out your blog. I like the green smoothie…looks good. Nice run (who cares if you are really slow). Sometimes, I like the stuff mixed in with the oatmeal. Sometimes I like the stuff on top.

    I was a diet coke fiend for decades (age 15 to 35). Then when pregnant, lost the taste for it, switched to diet dr. pepper. I try to limit myself to three per week. Drink tea on the other days.

    Reply
  27. Melissa says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Nate,
    You always make me laugh. Great post!! : )

    Reply
  28. ReluctantWriter says

    May 26, 2009 at 10:11 am

    I enjoyed this post. I feel strange taking pics of food when Im out too hehe. God bless the food bloggers!

    Reply
  29. Jenn )) j3nn.net (( says

    May 26, 2009 at 11:17 am

    LOL great post! I know what you mean about feeling crazy taking pics in a restaurant. I’ve had servers ask why I’m taking pics, too. I wonder if they think I’m an inspector of some sort lol.

    Gilbert is adorable.

    Jenn

    Reply
  30. Moran (The Running Addict) says

    May 26, 2009 at 11:27 am

    Nate I LOVED this post! Definitely heading to your blog now!

    Reply
  31. Samantha says

    May 26, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Favorite guest post so far! Loved how you kept your eating real 🙂

    Reply
  32. Danica says

    May 26, 2009 at 11:30 am

    HI Nate ~ Great post – I enjoy your site too and can totally relate to your Weight Watchers roller coaster – it is my lifetime quest too 😀

    Off to see what is new on your site.

    Reply
  33. Tiffany says

    May 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    I LOVED reading this – I laughed out loud numerous times! It very much reminds me of my husband, who drinks Coke all day long (and will argue with me about why its “good” for him) and makes fun of my “hippie granola” cereals as well!
    Must be a guy thing…

    Reply
  34. Recipes for Creativity says

    May 26, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    You are hilarious. I am officially adding your blog to my bookmarks menu. I always laugh when I read your blog, but for some reason my brain hasn’t been attached to my mouse-hand lately, so I’ve never managed to consistently visit. That’s going to change.

    Reply
  35. petunia says

    May 26, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    fav guest post so far!

    Reply
  36. Adventures of Alice says

    May 26, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Hey! I loved your post—I think I even laughed out loud some. Thanks!
    My brothers are huge Diet Mountain Dew Fans and got really upset when they changed the flavor–how’d you handle the change? = )

    Reply
  37. Nicole (dishin') says

    May 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Very funny and enjoyable! Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  38. Tracey says

    May 26, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    This was delightful! I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you for guest posting! 🙂

    Reply
  39. Olga says

    May 26, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Pace: Really Slow.

    I didn’t think that Forerunner 305 HRMs came with this setting but I just got that today, so I guess I believe you.

    Reply
  40. AmandaD says

    May 26, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Love the WWU comment! I, too, could wallpaper a 2000 sq. foot house with the amount of WW “flare”!

    Reply
  41. Ellie says

    May 27, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Nice post, loved it! Very refreshing 🙂

    Reply
  42. Alison says

    May 27, 2009 at 7:18 am

    I thought of this post last night when I was at a restaurant and I too could not bring myself to whip my camera out. I need something to aspire towards I suppose!

    Still laughing at the EnviroKidz from the hood yo!

    Reply
  43. ashley says

    May 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    i have now laughed a good bit. thank u for your humor. i wll be visiting your blog as well

    Reply
  44. MaryBe says

    May 27, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    You have a great career as a food blogger! You should, you were taught by the best!
    Thanks for a great post!

    Reply

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