I am a horrible person for grocery shopping. You see, I always tend to be fairly adventurous when it comes to trying new foods. As a result, whenever I see something new or different on the shelves, I want to buy it. Sometimes, unfortunately, these end up being the things that we find sitting in our freezer or in a cupboard three years later, untouched. Right now, we have some strange little salmon filets in our freezer to prove this. And then there was the situation with the weird shrimp stuff. Apparently, a lot of my food foibles have something to do with seafood. Seafood is one of those things that seems better when you see it than when you actually have to live it. Babies, puppies and people just off of planes from foreign countries are a little bit that way. Just kidding ... sort of.

Generally, though, I follow through and try to eat the unusual things I buy. Very rarely do they turn out to be things that we buy on a regular basis though.

A couple of weeks ago, Lisa and Evan were looking out for me. They saw something new in the dairy case and decided that I might want to try it. I am pleased to say that they are very good. "Breakstone's Cottage Doubles" are little plastic cartons which have cottage cheese and fruit in separate sections. You mix the fruit into the cottage cheese before you eat it. At only about 150 calories and very low in sugar, Cottage Doubles stack up well against yogurt. Frequently my breakfast, if I eat breakfast at all, is a cup of yogurt. Well, over the last couple of weeks, I have enjoyed a strawberry and a pineapple Cottage Double in place of yogurt for breakfast. They really are very tasty and more filling than yogurt. No, I am not a paid spokesperson for Breakstone's but I would suggest you check them out and see what you think. I just hope that our couple of friends who work at the nearby Dannon Yogurt plant don't read this.