my nutty buddies

We have a little problem in our house. It seems that Paul went to the grocery store yesterday to return a DVD which we had rented for $1 from one of those automated DVD vending machines. Have you seen those? They are really quick and easy to use, and very inexpensive! Paul is already brainstorming about how to buy them and put them in various stores--forever the entrepreneur. Anyway, while at the store, he bought two boxes of Nutty Buddies, not because they were on sale (because they were not) but because he loves them and probably had the premonition that one box just wouldn't last through the weekend.

To get to the point, today is Sunday, and there is ONE Nutty Buddy left. Just one. Out of two boxes of six each, which--do the math--is 12 total Nutty Buddies, there is just one remaining. Anderson had three, and Bennett had his very first one yesterday (and LOVED it) and a part of one today. (Okay, so our dessert rules sometimes relax on the weekends.) I had several bites of one Paul was eating, but that is it. That means that Paul has had 7 Nutty Buddies in just two days (well, maybe 6 if you count the fact that Bennett and I nibbled on two of his).

I am so glad my husband is so trim because if he wasn't, I would not be blogging about this. Instead, we would have called an intervention by now. But since Paul rarely binges on anything, this recent binge has brought a lot of laughter to us today. After dinner tonight, Anderson was begging Paul to just resist the temptation to eat yet another Nutty Buddy so he wouldn't "get fat". It didn't work. Anderson and I have contemplated sending him to NBOA (Nutty Buddy Overeaters Anonymous), but we aren't sure where they have their meetings. I guess there are far worse things he could be addicted to.

The thing that irks me about this binge--I bet he gets on the scale tomorrow morning and has lost two pounds. Oh, the injustice of his metabolism. If I had seven Nutty Buddies this weekend, my jeans would not fit me tomorrow.

I am going to post a video of Bennett eating his first Nutty Buddy. Frankly, we were going to let him have a few bites and then I was going to eat his cone (the only part I really like), but he ate the entire thing!! He likes those Nutty Buddies, just like his dad and brother.