detox

Okay so I'm the sort of person who goes through food kicks where I'll eat the same thing for inordinately long periods of time. In my twenties these food kicks were not the most healthy, salt & vinegar kettle chips with a king size bag of m&m's was my lunch for, oh about 6 months, while I freelanced at Martha Stewart. During that time I also used to hit McDonalds for super-sized meals 3 to 4 times a week, how I was at my lightest during that fast food period is dumbfounding. But this summer, after a lovely visit to my friend Elise, I got on a kick of eating plain greek yogurt with granola and blueberries for breakfast, and frequently lunch, and sometimes as a late night snack. Totally healthy - greek yogurt is naturally low in fat and high in protein, the granola was low fat with almonds and blueberries are like nature's superfood. But over the past week the blueberries have left all the grocery stores. A couple weeks ago Trader Joe's was out of my low fat almond granola for close to a week. And I went to Trader Joe's today and they don't have their large tubs of greek yogurt anymore, now they only have individual sizes with blueberries or honey already in them. So I've got to buy the Fage yogurt which is $2 more. And I'm totally jonesing for fresh blueberries and lamenting having to wait nine months to taste one again. Not to get off on a tangent but I think this is why I like the show Monk so much. I probably have OCD, I definitely have anxiety, and although I'm not a brilliant detective the way Monk is, well he's lovable in spite of his quirks, in many ways they're what make him so great as a dectective. So my blueberry withdrawal notwithstanding, hopefully my quirks endear me to some troubled souls, like my hubby and close friends, and I'm hoping my constant worrying/perfectionistic tendencies will actually help me in certain ways with the nursing field. God knows I'll be conscientious. Does anyone know if frozen blueberries are a reasonable fascimile of fresh?