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I almost turned down an offer of free food for a week. Sometimes, I am an idiot.

I was stuck on the “I am a mom, therefore a martyr” mentality that has been my curse lately.

Thankfully, I came to my senses rather quickly.

What<a href="thefreshdiet.com/mommies"> the Fresh Diet</a> offered me was a week of food delivered to my front door daily – that is tempting enough, but the kicker is that this is real food, prepared simply with ingredients I could recognize. Here's something you need to know about me: I like to cook because I can control exactly what goes into my food and what it tastes like. But you also need to know that I'm tired! Thinking of three meals to cook a day, every day, gets tiresome, and after I make sure my family is fed, sometimes I'm too tired to make sure I eat. So I end up eating as I cook, which leaves me feeling full but unsatisfied. This was a chance to get back to a more civilized way of eating. Yes, I still have to cook for the rest of my family, but knowing that my meals were taking care of was nothing short of fantastic.

I went on the site and signed up – before you choose your meals you tell them if you have any food dislikes. I pretty much eat everything (as long as its real food), so I didn't need this tool, but it's there for picky eaters. Then you are presented with your choices for the days you have signed up and you pick from a variety of entrees. Click, click, click and you're done. I learned a little something about myself – I eat a lot of carbs. I don't subscribe to the “carbs are evil” mentality, but when the system gently nudged me to choose a few less carbs I played along to see what it would be like on the lower carb side. It was fine. I mean, I still eat bread at almost every meal – but I missed the carbs less than I thought I would.

As I waited for my meals to arrive, I started to worry about the actual food. What would it look like? What would it taste like? Here's what was delivered to me on the very first day:

BREAKFAST

Hawaiian Pineapple Stuffed Whole Wheat French Toast with Blueberries and Blueberry Cottage Cheese

LUNCH

Lemon Pepper Grilled Shrimp Salad with Yellow Tomato, Cucumber, Alfalfa Sprouts Baby Lettuce and Citrus Vinaigrette

DINNER

Filet of Chilean Sea Bass with Citrus Chipotle Sauce

APPETIZER

Chicken Skewer with Tequila Lime Glaze

DESSERT

Apricot Cheesecake

And because seeing is believing, here is what the food looked like. (I took all these pictures with my iphone, right before I scarfed it down.)

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