an app, a book, a date

Last night on Facebook I saw my friend Lisa mention a new app she was a little obsessed with: Fooducate. I downloaded it to see what the fuss was about, and then I proceeded to spend the rest of my night scanning everything in my kitchen. Even Matt got in on the fun. It's an app that has several functions-- one of them being a food tracker-type thing (like MyFitnessPal or something). I'm not interested in that at the moment, but the food grading system is what really drew me in here. You can just scan the barcode of any food and it will instantly give you a 'grade' for that food, as well as a lot of interesting tidbits about the product. It doesn't just grade items based on calories or fat (or things you could easily figure out on your own by looking at the nutrition panel), but also on things such as controversial additives, chemicals, presence of GMOs, and a bunch of other crazy things. I'm telling you-- for someone like me, who is already fairly interested/aware of that kind of thing...it was an ADDICTION running around my kitchen, scanning like crazy!! I was holding my breath as I scanned my favorite/most-frequently-eaten foods, praying they wouldn't get failing grades or weird alerts for strange ingredients. There were plenty of pleasant surprises as well as huge let-downs.

Look- all of my favorite coffee products and veggies got good grades!! (When you are actively scanning (this is just a glimpse of the history), you get much more information and details about each item.)

Probably NOT terribly surprising-- but still devastating-- was how poorly my favorite gum fared. Oh poor delicious watermelon gum. You got a D+ ('much worse than average') grade!! Now I'm going to have to feel super guilty every time I chew you...which is like 11 times a day. Boo.

Anyway. I can't wait to scan everything in the whole grocery store next time I go. If you're looking for a free, educational way to kill some time-- I recommend downloading this! It's free and available for iPhones and Androids. And now I totally sound like an advertisement, but whatever. If you have this app, you should tell me what your biggest disappointment/lowest scoring item is. And whether you will quit eating it or not. I'm undecided on my gum. (Oh- we happened to have a container of Yakisoba noodles that our visiting Chinese student left. It was like 'extra cheesy' or something, which makes me want to vomit-- CHEESY RAMEN NOODLES?! Ick. Anyway. We figured it'd get the lowest score in the house. It did do pretty poorly- a D...which is like...equivalent to my gum. TRAGEDY. I was hoping it'd get an F.)

Oh! While I'm busy being a walking advertisement, I would be remiss to not point you in the direction of Sephora's sale page. There are some super legit eyeshadow palettes on mega-clearance...some of which I own and paid A LOT MORE for a year ago. Which I'm not bitter about or anything. Anyway. I'm plotting my own order, so my only request is that you not beat me to it and snatch up the rest of the inventory of what I want. Thanks so much!

Last night I started reading Ridiculous. That's seriously the name of it. I had my doubts about how enjoyable it would be, especially since I was busy judging the title and cover and plot, but I'm glad I gave it a go: HILARIOUS. It's actually a miracle I'm blogging right this minute and not reading. Self-control, people. Between that book and the food app, I really don't see how I'm going to get anything done for the rest of the week. Sheesh. 

Today I'm having lunch with Amanda G.!! I'm not sure if you can still call it a 'blate' if you've already met and hung out in real life before? Since this is our second time to hang out, I guess you can just call it lunch with a friend. Anyway. I have been super pumped about that all week and now all of YOU get to be jealous, too!! With that, I'm off to scan random food items in my office and scarf down a few more paragraphs of cross-dressing Regency romance...yeah. For real.