Food, Food, Food
posted on august 8, 2004, tag: me
I love FreshDirect, I really, really do. Living in Brooklyn and not having a car makes grocery shopping quite difficult. Between the lack of decent grocery stores and the distance you have to walk with all of your groceries, it's a lot of work to keep your apartment regularly stocked. Before FreshDirect, we would shop continuously—once every two days—but only for a small amount of items. We would buy meat the day we were going to use it (meat selection in this area is not fantastic anyway), vegetables here and there, a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow. But then FreshDirect finally started delivering to our area.
Now it's once every two weeks. We order everything we're going to need and it's delivered the very next day. They only charge five bucks for delivery and their food is pretty regularly priced and high quality. I must say, it's fantastic not to have to go grocery shopping. For $5 more, I can order from the comfort of my living room, and they bring it to my door 20 hours later. It's fantastic. If you've got it (or a similar service) in your area and you haven't checked it out—you're wasting time.
And speaking of food: Shawn, Evan, Katia and I went to Peter Luger's on Saturday night. I made the reservations two weeks ago, and we got in pretty quickly because of a cancellation. We sat down to dinner at 6:45 and left—completely bloated and overly full—at 8:45. Two hours of eating fantastic steak, creamed spinach and fried potatoes. Oh, and dessert, too. The meal was expensive, but completely worth it since Luger's is the best steak in New York. I was full for about three hours. I'm talking please don't show me any food because I might have a reversal of fortune full. But my god was the steak good.
Oh, and as far as the lactose intolerance thing goes... it appears to be true. The past few days I have avoided lactose items and haven't been sick. The one day I did consume it, however, my stomach started a war with my intestines and it was a horrible battle. So, I guess that's it. I've been testing my limits with regular milk and they seem pretty low. I'm going to start looking into the substitutes and the pills and the other stuff, and have a conversation with my doctor to see what he thinks. Oh well. At this point, I'm willing to give up lactose entirely to stop the stomach problems.
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matthew welty on 08/09/2004:
yeah, over here in sacramento, ca, i use safeway.com for my shopping. best thing ever if i do say so myself. not that we have trouble getting anywhere in california; i'm just lazy.
supercrisis on 08/09/2004:
That happened to my sister (the lactose thing) and we're not sure where it came from either. My understand of allergic reactions (I have a million and one of them) is that they stem from both over and under-exposure to substances. I used to consume tons of oranges and other orange garden things. Then suddenly one year I developed an allergy to all fruits and vegetables that were orange.
After 5 years of just not eating them I took the advice of a friend and started drinking orange juice again. The first few weeks were a little dodgy, but I'm able to drink it now (2 litres a day at times) without any problems. I'm no physician, but based on my own experience, maybe if you just take a breather from dairy and then slowly inch it back into your diet you can't avoid giving it up entirely, for eternity. Which is a very long time.
Shawn on 08/09/2004:
OK, humor me with something absurd. For the last two entries, every time I see the word lactose, I read 'lacrosse.' Genuinely. And each time I come back and read a comment that mentions lactose, it happens again. I keep wondering what's up with your lacrosse intolerance and why so many people agree with you. In fact it's so bad that when I was proofing over this comment, I kept making the switch. I guess it makes for more interesting reading. Absurd comment finished.
Garrett on 08/09/2004:
Actually, now that you mention it, I think I've always had a lacrosse intolerance.
Kevin on 08/10/2004:
Hey Garrett,
I had the same experience a few years back. I went without milk for a few months while traveling and when I returned home my body wasn't taking it anymore. While I don't miss milk or cheese too much I would like to worry less about ice cream. Most yogurt isn't a problem because it comes with the necessary enzyme in it. The only trouble is when you eat out or at other people's houses. It's a bit of a pain in the ass to always have people tip-toeing around you and worrying about what you can and can't handle. For that reason alone I recommend looking into some kind of digestive aid. Bummer for me is that since moving to Japan I haven't found one that does the trick for me yet.