GRANDMA’S PIES
I bought my mother-in-law a house last year. Well, actually I bought it and we are renting it to her at the same price as the mortgage payment. My wife and I needed to relocate her, and she is still very much capable of living on her own. So we moved her from 4 states away, to 5 miles away. Just a small place, but just right for her and that cat.
Being retired and on a fixed income, she doesn’t get out and do a lot of things that cost money. The one thing she does do….is bake pies. Lots and lots of pies. And now she has someone, she thinks, to bake them for. When she was falling all over herself thanking me for moving her, I think I kind of flippantly said something like, “Well, Grandma, I just wanted to get you closer so I could have your pie more often”.
Probably a mistake, because she took me literally, and now, every time my wife goes out to visit her Mom, she comes home with a couple of pies. And yes, they are fantastic.
And there in lies the issue for me. How to manage my “pie intake”. Since starting this challenge, I made a deal with myself that I would allow myself one piece from each pie she made for us. My theory is that by giving myself permission to eat one slice of pie, I won’t absent-mindedly eat half of the damn thing. Furthermore, my strategy is to try to time my piece to be the last piece after the wife and kids have had a go at it. In that way, I may actually be too late for my piece, and therefore actually avoid any (of that particular pie).
Anyway, the first pie involved with my Pie Intake Theory (PIT), arrived last week (Apple), and I indeed succeeded with having just one piece. Today, two pies arrived home with my loving spousal unit (Lemon Cream, Chocolate Cream), so here we go again.
Now, I need to review my PIT to determine if I should allow myself one slice of each, or since both pies arrived together, if I should still only allow myself one between the two of them. This is somewhat of a dilemma, although I know the correct answer is the fewer, the better. I have also included in my PIT, that I must have had a cardio or resistance workout on the day I am having pie, and that I have to go an extra 20 minutes to offset the extra calories.
So, okay. That’s enough about that.
Ha! Good story and a nice read.
Hmmm pie!
hey if you get 2 pies, have half a normal sized slice of each… that way at least you are eating both and only having the same amount… does that make sense?
I wish I got pie… but on the other hand… I wouldnt be able to cope.
Agree with Ex’s comments. And how nice to move her closer to you-many would not have bothered. Kudo’s to you. Pie….you do have willpower! I like Push’s idea of smaller pieces.