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We Will Be Eating Some Things and Telling You We Ate Them and If We Think You Might Like Them or Not

We are not trying to tell you what to do. We do not think we are specialer than you are. We do not think that you don't know how to taste and eat food. We are not foodies.

We are people who shop with kids and like to have an idea of what we're looking for before we go in the store. We like to get things others have recommended because that's a good way of trying things we wouldn't normally try. When we eat something delicious, we want to tell someone.

We also want to post information for those who are shopping with special diets in mind: gluten-, nut- or dairy-free; whole foods; etc. Maybe have some discussion about why we think something is delicious or disgusting or meh, if you feel like it.

Rob works as a chef* and I stay at home with my kids. I mean, I DO things while I'm at home, but I don't feel like listing it all. It's kind of a lot. Maybe just don't worry about what I do and even though I am logged in somewhere, I'm not necessarily sitting there looking at the computer. I am a very busy person. I haven't even looked at lolcats in, like, weeks.

*Rob wants everyone to know that he isn't too chef-y and likes tacos. Those two things are not necessarily related. He just needed you to know both of them. Which relates them somehow, but not in a way that expresses an opinion about chefs and tacos and the liking of tacos by chefs or anyone else.

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