IBC Root Beer

I love root beer! It is the one soda drink that does not have caffeine and therefore I can drink it in the middle of the day if I want too! Because of my horrible insomnia, I limit my caffeine to only mornings. Around our house, as of late, we have been eating very healthy. Veggies galore, chicken and fish, fruit coming out our ears and only high grain, high fiber whole wheat breads. No white breads, no white potatoes, no sugar, no a lot of things. We are all getting used to it little by little. I still will let the kids splurge every now and then because they need more "fat" in their diet than us. Although we are getting used to the "healthy" way of eating, I still like my treats every now and again. So as I was perusing the grocery store, I ran across "diet" IBC root beer. I thought I would give it a try and it was yummy. So most days to get me in between lunch and dinner (my stomach rumbles sometime between 2:30 and 3:30) I enjoy a diet IBC root beer or a Sonic diet cherry Limeaide. They both seem to get me over till dinner.

Yesterday however I opened a bottle of my diet root beer and without thinking I needed to leave in about 10 minutes. Now I like to take my time drinking my drinks so I grabbed it and headed out the door. About 3 or 4 minutes later I took the drink in my hands and swallowed a mouth full and then immediately thought, "Oh my goodness, this bottle looks like a beer and if a cop or someone who knows me sees me, they are going to think I'm drinking a beer!" I guess I need to back this story up a bit, because you have to understand that I am a very, very conservative Baptist Preacher's wife and therefore I believe that drinking is wrong and can cause of stumbling block to the weak (those who are not mature in Christ or those who haven't accepted Christ yet as their Savior). I will not consume or purchase alcohol in the least bit of way. Buying the IBC diet root beer is not big deal because it comes in a package that clearly says what it is. But taking it out of the package, it just looks like a beer bottle. So what did I do??? I hid it between my legs, drove home, finished my root "beer" and threw the bottle away. I made a mental note about never drive and drink an IBC "diet" or not diet root beer in the car again. LOL!