Frugal Family: On the Hunt for Dessert!

One of my earlier posts for Fort Greene Patch focused on exercise routines from the perspective of the-stay at-home dad. Since I pontificated on all the clever ways to exercise with kids, I decided I’d come clean in this post and tell you how my exercise routine has been going. 

You see, I have been exercising regularly — by lifting my arm to my mouth and stuffing my face with food. In particular, I’m enjoying dessert these days, and not just after dinner. Cake, cookies and croissants; these have regularly found their way into my breakfast of heavyweight champions.

I think my new found fondness for dessert started with recent visits to the doctor for my son, John Carlito.  He would be weighed and measured and the doctor would put a big smile on her face and say something like, “Great!  He is in the 50th percentile!” Now, I’m not sure where Doc went to medical school but for me the 50th percentile isn’t a passing grade. 

Also, who makes up this population from which the percentile is pulled? Is it possible my child is being measured against the children of Sumo wrestlers? Instead of a rational investigation into these questions I concocted a plan to bring more dessert into the house, hoping to help John Carlito put on more weight. I can’t figure out if his mother is for or against this plan — it’s hard to understand what she says with her mouth full of ice cream.

Listed below are my top five neighborhood dessert spots for the frugal family.

5. Junior’s — ($20/cheesecake) — Junior’s hasn’t got as much publicity as this post will provide since Puff Daddy made aspiring band members walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to get him cheesecake in MTV’s classic “Making the Band.” How old does Johnny C. have to be before I ask him to walk over and pick up dessert?    

4. — ($3.75/cobbler) — I took the peach cobbler to a dinner and told our hosts I had slaved over it all day. Our hosts responded that they were coming to our place going forward in order to enjoy my incredible cooking. Touche, Bakery. Well played.

3.  — ($6/slice red velvet cake) — You know you are good when you sell only one thing and you incorporate it into your name.  “Stay-at-home dad John,” anyone?

2. Dough — ($2/doughnut) — The woman behind the counter thought Johnny C. was cute and threw an extra doughnut in our bag. The light bulb in my stomach went off and I started wondering if it was worth having more kids in order to get more free doughnuts.   

1.  — ($2.25/chocolate croissant) — This place is my new found love. I heart you Choice Market and judging by the traffic jam of strollers found in your entry way I am not the only parent in the neighborhood who has developed a crush.