I\’m spoiled rotten from riding a road bike so much. When I ride the hybrid to the salvage store, and take the trailer, I feel SO slow! I\’m even slower riding back home from the salvage store hauling that loaded trailer; but I do it anyway. Slow or not, I keep going to the salvage store so I can get the miles! I also always wonder what the store might have on its shelves. It\’s a good thing I\’m not a cat, or my curiosity would have long since wiped out all of my nine lives!

Salvage store prices have spoiled me, that\’s for sure. This trip, I found Epic Bites at $2.99 for a 2.5 oz pack, which is cheap for Epic Bites. I enjoyed some of them for lunch. Naturally I brought home some more canned goods; and of course I rooted through the grab-bag bins.

My Finds

Today the bins didn\’t include many items suitable for ride food; I found only one FitCrunch bar. For a few months I found plenty of them! I didn\’t see any salmon today, either. The salvage store is funny that way: for a while they\’ll have an item in ample supply; and then for a long time they won\’t have it at all. That entire store is, in effect, one giant grab bag. I never know what I\’ll find, and that\’s part of the store\’s allure.

Even while hunting down bargain prices, I have to try to keep carbs in mind. Hot chocolate mix, for example. I saw some, and checked the nutrition info; and that particular brand of hot chocolate is higher in calories and carbs than the Swiss Miss that I already have. I think I\’ll stick with the Swiss Miss.

I took the cooler with me this morning.

It wasn\’t quite big enough for all my cold stuff, so it\’s a good thing the weather wasn\’t too warm. I wouldn\’t have wanted my strawberry yogurt to get spoiled!