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Reviewing All Four Guy Fieri Frozen Meals

October 14, 2023 / / 10 Comments

I debated opening this post like I did the Gordan Ramsay frozen meal review with the sentiment, “I’m going into this wanting Guy Fieri to succeed!”

Nah – I mean, I did actually go into this wanting Guy Fieri to succeed. But the kindest thing I can for your pocketbooks is tell you to save your cash.

Before I even get started, let me to preface this review/roast by saying I am a long-time Guy Fieri fan. I’ve seen every episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 2-3 times. I own a Guy Fieri sweatshirt that I bought myself. Once I wrote an ode to Guy’s Grocery Games. Friday night in our household will always be Food Network Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives rerun night. I bow down to how he’s brought the Top Chef and Food Network worlds together. I have a Safia Nygaard-dining-at-his-Vegas-restaurant-wearing-a-flames-shirt-level of enthusiasm for him.

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Two Birthday Week Meals

October 13, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Parental Murphy’s Law states that every time you request time off in advance, someone gets sick.

It could be you! Or, it could be one of the kids. Someone’s going to get sick and so you’ll all or part of your days off taking care of someone sick.

During my birthday week, Artie got sick.

Our pediatrician told us to bring him in before the weekend when everything seems to implode.

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The Gordon Ramsay Frozen Meal Review

September 16, 2023 / / 22 Comments

I went into this review wanting Gordon Ramsay to succeed.

I really did.

The reason is that I actually like Gordon Ramsay.

I’ve been a fan since I saw the British version of Kitchen Nightmares. It’s much different than its American counterpart – and I’ve seen that whole thing too.

Chef Ramsay’s producers must have told him to act extra angry and dramatic on the American version – the British version gives him a lot longer to work with the restaurants and he acts more like a mentor.

(Hell’s Kitchen just isn’t my thing.)

This new line of frozen meals called By Chef Ramsay just dropped in Walmarts, along with Guy Fieri, Kardea Brown, and Andrew Zimmern. They’re supposedly eight of Ramsey’s favorite meals.I bought the four available at my nearest Walmart – each cost $5.90.

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The Minnesota State Fair 2023: Things We Ate (And Wish We Didn’t Eat)

August 24, 2023 / / 4 Comments

The Minnesota State Fair is like my Halloween.

Halloween is like my 12 days of Christmas.

Christmas is like my Christmas?

I look forward to the fair all year, but now that we have young kids, we have to make the most of a short visit.

The best time to go to the fair is early in the morning on the very first day.

This year we could take the day off – I’m usually the most excited person at work for the fair -and  the only one who takes a day off to go on opening day. I’m like a Disney Adult but with the state fair.

I was determined to try a few new foods, even with the two little ones in tow. The new food list this year looked pretty exciting. I tried to make a list. But with little kids, you never know how the visit will actually go.

Sometimes you have to go with the flow – for example, I had brought them to the Mall of America the other day. Of course they had hangry meltdowns and we ended up at the restaurant with the shortest line instead of the best food which is how I spent $27 on a meal at A&W

Today we did try a few new foods, including one that was so disgusting I almost got sick, plus most of our favorite classics:

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