I’ll find any excuse to treat myself. Actually, my whole system of self-adulting is based on an intricate balance of tasks and rewards to keep myself motivated and happy. I pay a bill, I get a chocolate. I buy a house, I get a jar of raw honey (and a fancy couch). I make it to Thursday, why not treat myself to a jar of fancy mayonnaise? It’s a very deliberate system that involves chocolate, lip glosses, fancy bath salts and usually means that I get my taxes paid and keep the lights on.
Since we’ve all made it to Friday, I’m absolute certain that we’re all well due to treat ourselves. Here are some of my go-to grocery store treats from me to me. At least one of these winds up in my basket alongside a bag of spinach and fish stick dinner.
โข Harvest Snap Pea Crisps You’re going to need more than one bag because you’ll eat one bag in the car on the way home from the grocery store. I’m sorry it’s true.
โข We’ve earned a weekend bath and I’ve been loving this The Seaweed Bath Co. Bath Powder lately. Just think of cleaning up the tub after the bath as an extra workout… that then deserves a chocolate reward.
โข I’ve taken to sprinkling Wildflower seed packs in my backyard and seeing what happens. Talk to me in three weeks. I may be overrun in the most beautiful way possible.
โข Ok… it takes a lot of expensive dental work to think that Floss Sachets are a treat. But… if you’ve ever had a root canal and you never want to have a root canal again? YAY FLOSS!
โข This little nugget of chocolate heaven is exactly the ticket in time of deep-treat need: Lack Champlain Peanut Butter Chocolate
โข Sriracha Arare Rice Crackers are spicy and crunchy and really great to stress eat, and while we should all have better coping mechanisms that eating out stress… sometimes it’s nice to have these crackers in your purse just in case you’re human.
โข White Gold Honey is creamy and beautiful and really wonderful in the Turmeric Tonic for soothing moments of reward and success.
โข One bag frozen tater tots plus one bottle Chipotle Mayonnaise. Done. Sir Kensington’s makes the best condiments hands all the way down.
โข Sea Salt and Turbinado Sugar Chocolate Covered Almonds. These are a dangerous game, my friends. They go down by the handful.
Treats for all of us. They don’t call it Splurgin’ Friday for nothin’!
xo Joy
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THE ALMONDS. I BOUGHT THE ALMONDS. They are amazing. Dear god. Best suggestion ever. Have I finished them all even though i just bought them an hour ago? I’ll never tell. ;D
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Good haul for shopping of grocery stores. Thanks for sharing! <3
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Ok – the Lake Champlain Peanut Bar makes my whole entire life. I swear when I’m checking out at Whole Foods, if that bar is there, I will buy it 1000% of the time!!!! #nom
I went to Amazon to check out the floss, and all the things under “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” were the other things on your list!
whoa! internet powers!
I can’t afford any of that stuff. all looks amazing though…. hmm… lets rummage through the black hole of my purse and see … oh cool- a free cookie from panera bread. I can do that.
Great topic! The rice crackers look amazing…and I’m just about to make a Thrive order :)
Those Harvest Snaps are addicting. I have to avoid them at all cost – as in, do not even try to make eye contact of their cute bags on the shelf.
Love this! “Treating yourself” is so New Orleans – we lived in the Bywater before the storm and would often nip into dba on Wednesday because ‘it’s almost the week-end”.
I’m all about that floss!
Those Harvest Snaps are THE BOMB. So glad I’m not the only who eats an entire bag in one sitting :)
It looks like I have a few things to add to my grocery list! Love it when that happens! My daughter is addicted to the low-salt snap pea crisps. It’s the ONE processed food she’s allowed to have :)
I love the Harvest Snaps too
Self treating is life! So important on so many levels.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who splurges by buying fancy honey. I also don’t particularly like mayo, but I’ve been hearing so many good things about Sir Kensington that I’ll have to see what all the fuss is about.
it really is very good!
Harvest Snaps are so dangerous. 4 servings? Please. They don’t last an hour in my care.
The newest addition to my adult-self-care list is coffee body scrub. So delicious… for the skin! And getting out of the shower smelling like coffee is a-ok to get going in the morning.
Harvest Snaps are my kriptonite!
Now, a word about Sir Kensington’s ;-) I am an American living in the UK and had assumed Sir Kensington’s had it’s origins here in the UK, but no! They don’t even have a distributor here! So, I ordered the full range, one of each, to be shipped here to me so I could sample all their wares. The shipping wasn’t too horribly expensive and believe me, it was worth it, Sir K’s is the very best ever, as you say Joy, all hands down, most definitely! I will probably have to get another shipment this autumn to refresh my supplies, as I can’t see using anything else now I’ve had these. Good call, Joy!
Wildflowers are amazing, best to make sure they are native to your region so as not to introduce “invaders” though. I saw an article not too long ago about an amazing street where all the neighbours agreed not to mow or manicure their front lawns and let the original meadow flowers grow. It was a cul-de-sac, so that helped “contain” the new meadow. The pictures were gorgeous and the children in that neighbourhood had their own private meadow in which to play and observe the wildlife — heaven! However, if it’s just your backyard, you can sow them within a big barrel tub or other container to keep them from spreading. I had mine in the middle of my front garden, sown into a large but shallow pond liner to prevent spreading. It was lovely watching the various plants as they bloomed at differing times of the spring and summer. Nothing spread into the lawn, which was kept mown to keep the neighbours happy. Interesting, though, how many little wildflower containers sprang up in other people’s front gardens after that!
Joy doesn’t need to worry about what’s native in New Orleans. It’s pretty much impossible to figure out what’s local. The city rests on limestone, along with being Zone 9. It was cleared of natives probably over 150 years ago. I’ve googled, I’ve checked City Park, local gardening books. I thought Margaret Stone’s botanical watercolors at LSU in Baton Rouge would be revealing, but no. While beautiful, and showing many natives of the rest of the state, not so much New Orleans. If the plant likes alkaline to neutral soil it will grow. I will say don’t plant bananas. Or elephant ears. Or papyrus. Or . . . the problem here is keeping things from growing.
Oh, JoyโฆI hate to break the news to you but those seed packets that entice consumers with wildflower dreams are mostly full of seeds that seasoned gardeners consider weeds. Yepโฆweeds flower too but they are still weeds are often invasive and hard to get rid of. I learned tis lesson early on in my gardening experience. I thought I would have a beautiful patch of wildflowers but what I got was less than beautiful. New neighbors, a few year later, sprinkled a few packets in their yard close to my fence and very soon I had things running under my fence that are still a problem, years later. Weeds that spread by running roots are horrendous to escape.I suggest you stick with some easy to care for perennials that you can add to each year as your garden develops and filling in with sunny annuals. Best of luck!
Yes to treating ourselves! And yes to chocolate as reward for all those accomplishments, like remembering to fill the car with gas the day before a trip where you will be leaving at 6:00 am and putting the towels in the dryer. I like to treat myself on Fridays for surviving another week with a good “happy hour” supper. Tonight will be some luscious goat cheese, spread on slices of crunchy crusted, chewy baguette and topped with a little dollop of my homemade, home canned, pear honey (it’s a fruit spread, not a flavored honey) made from pears I grew, and a lovely chilled Sauvignon Blanc. Kids get a soda for their treat to go with happy hour snacks. Throw in some buttery marcona almonds, briny olives and chewy dried apricots and it’s a meal made in heaven for Friday night. Then we have popcorn for dessert. Happy Friday to you!
I loved Joy’s post, today. I enjoyed your comment just as much! You had me at goat cheese, then you went on to describe something similar to one of my own favorite treats. By the time you mentioned the marcona almonds and olives, I was swooning! lol It’s not easy to find marcona almonds in my small town, but, the internet helps. I’m having this very same happy hour as soon as a food package arrives! (With fig spread, because I don’t have your home canned pear honey, of course. Which does sound delicous, :) )
Lissi, fig spread is an absolutely acceptable substitution! We have used that as well when our supply of pear honey has been used up. Marcona almonds are not in my town, either, but I can get them at a specialty market about an hour away so when I get there, I tend to stock up with enough to last me till my next visit. Hope you enjoy your happy hour! :)
Self-adulting!!!!! LOVE IT!
What is raw honey? I thought all honey was raw.
Love your list.
Being South African, I would have to include biltong, droe wors, boerewors, Malva pudding- the list is endless.