Vacation rant
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I just was on vacation and decided to eat and drink to my heart's content. I gained 2.5lbs - likely sodium retention - because I didn't eat in excess and we walked nonstop. If you can't do that, easy swaps are to ask for egg whites and little to no cheese on omelettes or scrambles, burgers with lettuce wraps, and lean meats with double veg instead of fries/potatoes/rice/pasta. Especially in the Boston area, they have so many options!0
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Egg 'product' and low protein yogurt. I love eggs but that was nasty and I typically don't waste calories on regular fruit yogurt. But maybe it will be enough if I'm not starving tomorrow.
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You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?
Really?
Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.
We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.
Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.
Well, I guess you're stuck with a horrible vacation because I have no advice for you.
Hence the rant. I wasn't asking for advice, although I appreciate it, but I wasted hours online trying to plan things for nothing... so I'm ranting. Don't mind me I guess... was just hoping to find people who can relate.0 -
fivethreeone wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?
Really?
Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.
We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.
Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.
Kids go to bed early. Start planning tomorrow tonight.
TripAdvisor is another good one. You can check menus ahead of time.
You get out of here with your logic! Can't a girl just rant and make excuses in peace around here?!
I can't plan anything. God knows when my kids will actually be hungry and when we'll be when they are. Maybe I should have titled this 'vacationing with kids when watching your diet sucks'. But everyone doesn't have a daughter who screams in the street that she's not hungry and won't eat and wants to go back to the hotel either (the main reason of my frustration really and why I'm thinking I'll stay home next year).
But it was a rant. You were warned
I have a very picky eater for a daughter. Eventually she decided to eat where I eat or not eat . she still does it from time to time choosing not to eat. Lol
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You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?
Really?
Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.
We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.
Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.
Well, I guess you're stuck with a horrible vacation because I have no advice for you.
Hence the rant. I wasn't asking for advice, although I appreciate it, but I wasted hours online trying to plan things for nothing... so I'm ranting. Don't mind me I guess... wad just hoping to find people who can relate.
You specifically said "how do people do it?" I was under the impression that was a genuine question. I suspect others were as well.
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billieljaime wrote: »
Egg 'product' and low protein yogurt. I love eggs but that was nasty and I typically don't waste calories on regular fruit yogurt. But maybe it will be enough if I'm not starving tomorrow.
wow at this point you are full of excuses and nothing sounds good enough for you
you sound real fun to vacation with
is your girl crabby and picky or is it you?
Relax you're on vacation
I'm picky I guess because I don't like wasting calories on bad food lol.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?
Really?
Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.
We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.
Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.
Well, I guess you're stuck with a horrible vacation because I have no advice for you.
Hence the rant. I wasn't asking for advice, although I appreciate it, but I wasted hours online trying to plan things for nothing... so I'm ranting. Don't mind me I guess... wad just hoping to find people who can relate.
You specifically said "how do people do it?" I was under the impression that was a genuine question. I suspect others were as well.
*Nods*
I mean, hey I've vacationed with my kid successfully many times. I've got tips and tricks and stuff up my sleeve. But when someone throws their hands up at the simplest suggestion (I can't possibly look up a restaurant because I have a kid!), I'm disinclined to continue to offer suggestions.
Had the op said "I just want to complain without trying to improve anything", I wouldnt have wasted any time.0 -
Why can't you move your car for 3 days? Is it broken?0
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fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.1 -
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Egg 'product' and low protein yogurt. I love eggs but that was nasty and I typically don't waste calories on regular fruit yogurt. But maybe it will be enough if I'm not starving tomorrow.
how is 100 calorie yogurt a "waste of calories"?????0 -
Egg 'product' and low protein yogurt. I love eggs but that was nasty and I typically don't waste calories on regular fruit yogurt. But maybe it will be enough if I'm not starving tomorrow.
how is 100 calorie yogurt a "waste of calories"?????
The sugar has toxinzzzz!0 -
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I recently stayed at a hotel in New Hampshire (Memorial weekend) and yeah, they have a continental breakfast.
Eggs, Sausage etc were kind of lame. But they also had Muffins, Cereal, Oatmeal, Yogurt and waffles (make your own obviously) Fruit, Bagels and Danishes. I'm guessing your hotel is pretty much the same.
Seriously, I just ate whatever. I'm pretty sure I ate a yogurt, danish and muffin for breakfast the one day and the other day I had a waffle and the eggs & sausage. It is what it is. Just log it and move on. I really wouldn't worry about macros on vacation and as for calories, relax a bit and just be mindful.0 -
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billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.
uuuhhh Being a Bostonian I can tell you it is FAR from a food desert...... LOL.........
Can you tell OP that nicely? Maybe offer to pick up some seafood for her?0 -
billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.
uuuhhh Being a Bostonian I can tell you it is FAR from a food desert...... LOL.........
I'm pretty sure you're lying. All they have in Boston is sugar laden yogurt and toxic French fries. I read it in the Internet.0 -
I could go on vacation and make a breakfast from a Wawa... and I'm a vegetarian with celiac disease. Yogurt, fruit, cheese, hard boiled eggs, coffee. That's a convenience store. I bet I could even get a pack of nuts or sunflower seeds too.0
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I have a daughter who is a picky eater, as well. She frequently doesn't like anything prepared for dinner, even the things she liked in the past. And by "the past" I mean the previous day. PB&J is our fallback food; the one thing she will eat consistently. Not the healthiest option but she will go hungry rather than eat something she doesn't like. Do you have a fallback food that you could request at restaurants, so you could go to a restaurant YOU like instead of one that isn't going to make her happy, regardless? Or, pack some of her foods in your bag for her, like granola bars, so she something to snack on?
Or, better yet, leave the kids with grandma on your next vacation. When we vacation, which are usually day vacations since we have a farm and can't leave the animals for long, we either plan a "kid" vacation that we aren't super excited about but the kids are (so no disappointment on our end since we went into it knowing what to expect), or we plan an "adult" vacation and leave the kids home.0 -
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billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.
uuuhhh Being a Bostonian I can tell you it is FAR from a food desert...... LOL.........
Also being a Bostonian if she is in town I get why she cant move her car for three days if she is IN CITY she wont want to move her car, you ever drove through down town Boston on a work day? It is MADDENING! Not like New York, NY is grid style lay out, Boston is just a messy lay out with over a million people in the city durring working hours. Hard to manuveur, better to stay on foot, or take the T.
yea, forget driving around boston is you are not from town … I would say take the T or use Uber…also there is awesome seafood restaurants, italian places in the north end, steakhouses, etc, etc…but I guess OP does not want to waste calories on all that….0 -
pearso21123 wrote: »I have a daughter who is a picky eater, as well. She frequently doesn't like anything prepared for dinner, even the things she liked in the past. And by "the past" I mean the previous day. PB&J is our fallback food; the one thing she will eat consistently. Not the healthiest option but she will go hungry rather than eat something she doesn't like. Do you have a fallback food that you could request at restaurants, so you could go to a restaurant YOU like instead of one that isn't going to make her happy, regardless? Or, pack some of her foods in your bag for her, like granola bars, so she something to snack on?
Or, better yet, leave the kids with grandma on your next vacation. When we vacation, which are usually day vacations since we have a farm and can't leave the animals for long, we either plan a "kid" vacation that we aren't super excited about but the kids are (so no disappointment on our end since we went into it knowing what to expect), or we plan an "adult" vacation and leave the kids home.
something tells me OP's daughter is feeding off the pickiness/crabiness of OP…..0 -
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billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.
uuuhhh Being a Bostonian I can tell you it is FAR from a food desert...... LOL.........
Also being a Bostonian if she is in town I get why she cant move her car for three days if she is IN CITY she wont want to move her car, you ever drove through down town Boston on a work day? It is MADDENING! Not like New York, NY is grid style lay out, Boston is just a messy lay out with over a million people in the city durring working hours. Hard to manuveur, better to stay on foot, or take the T.
It just turns into a food desert when you have kids.
Without kids, it's totally fine.0 -
billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »billieljaime wrote: »fivethreeone wrote: »
Well yeah. She's a lost cause. I was just hoping the car still worked so she wouldn't be stuck in the food desert of Boston for any longer than she had to be.
uuuhhh Being a Bostonian I can tell you it is FAR from a food desert...... LOL.........
Can you tell OP that nicely? Maybe offer to pick up some seafood for her?
OMG some of the BEST and FRESHEST seafood in the WORLD you will get from Boston....... she doesnt even know..... there are also HUGE farmers markets right on the college campuses there as well should be going on right around now last I knew..... I havnt lived there in quite some time
Left there to raise my kids in the country!!!!
legal seafood is the spot right?
sorry, I do not live in MA anymore but I believe that was a spot in boston that everyone always wanted to hit up for seafood….0
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