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I promise I feed them more than fast food!
27 MayDespite Nate and Nia’s collection of kids’ meal toys, I never really thought they ate too much fast food. It wasn’t until Nate started to refer to each toy as “Chicken French Fries” that I started to think otherwise.
Yeah. I think we’re going to cut back on our trips to BK and Mickey D’s.
It’s Me versus the Bird
22 NovI’ve been really lucky. I’ve only ever had to cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner by myself one time. It’s just worked out that we would be visiting family or our family would be visiting us so I didn’t have to cook. That’s a good thing. It’s not that I’m a bad cook or anything – I have issues when it comes to the main character of the meal.
It’s just – it still looks so much like it did when it was alive. I mean, with ground beef/steak – it doesn’t look like a cow. Bacon does not look like a pig. Chicken breast/nuggets/strips do not resemble a little feathered friend. And, in the case of the turkey – there’s more than it just still looking like a turkey – it’s also that they come with those bits and pieces and you have to reach in that orifice and pull out bags of mushy junk.
I’ve already asked Andrew to do the really dirty work but it’s still so hard for me to enjoy the taste of the cooked turkey after seeing what it once was and doing all the final prep work to really “finish” him off.
I’m disturbed – but not so much that I would boycott the bird altogether. I guess, I’ll see how it all turns out tomorrow.
Work Out = Pig Out?
18 AprSince we moved I have been really good about not eating as much fast food. When I was working at the station I ate it every day – Popeye’s Spicy Chicken Strips with the buttery, yummy biscuit/Whoppers with french fries and zesty onion dipping sauce (curse you Ginger!)/10 piece Chicken McNuggets with hot mustard sauce/Arby’s roast beef sandwich and curly fries with horsey sauce to drown every ounce of my food. Want to barf yet? I sure do…
It’s probably because I just got finished devouring my second fast food meal this week. (I did go for the grilled chicken though so that’s better right?) It seems now that I’ve been hitting the Y and really working it (I took 3 aerobics classes today!) I feel the need to stuff my stomach with the worst possible crap. It’s not just fast food either – last week I made pork-n-beans and put it on hot dog buns! What the heck is that? I don’t even remember the last time I ate pork-n-beans and I was all like “yum – I think I’ll make these even worse for me by slapping them on 3 buns!”
I’m totally zeroing out any calorie burning I did do at the gym and it’s driving me crazy! I know I’m the one who controls the food I put in my mouth – I just need to get a better handle on eating right so I can actually loose some of these post baby pounds. I’m hoping this post will purge me of my desire to take another trip to the drive-thru. Or at least help me to order a salad!
Pea(poop)nut Butter Recall
18 FebAH! I can’t believe this! For the past 6 plus years of my life I’ve been searching for product recalls to write about for our consumer segment on the newscast – none of them ever affected me personally. Of course, now that I don’t get to see hardly any news there’s a recall that affects my family and I just fed the potential poison to Nia last night! I found out about it in the weirdest way too – as I was checking out at Publix tonight the cashier was mumbling and laughing about about “feeding her sister Peter Pan peanut butter” – I must have shot the what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about look at her because she then went on to tell me about the recall.
I haven’t eaten a lick of the peanut butter myself but I’ve been serving up the possibly salmonella-infested spread to Nia since we moved into this house. I’m searching my memory trying to think if she got sick after eating the last sandwich I made for her – but that doesn’t matter because all of these websites say even if you haven’t gotten sick yet you still could and you won’t know it for like 8 to 72 hours after you swallow it down. Now I have to sit through 3 days hoping my little girl doesn’t have a potty attack. In the meantime, I’m just going to scowl at the little brown jar with it’s alarming red lid as if to tell it – you and me – we’re gonna go rounds if you upset my sweetie’s tummy. I know I’m supposed to throw the jar away and all – it’s just right now I feel this strong need to have a showdown with it – at a distance of course.
It’s interesting what something like this can do to people. I’ve read that some are suing because they say the salmonella infection cost them money due to lost work and doctor bills – others say they’re afraid to ever eat the peanut butter brands again. As for what it did to me – it’s taught me a lesson. I’m trying to make sure I won’t miss another recall – I’ve signed up to get email alerts from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Food and Drug Administration and the Agriculture Department. We’ll see…
YUM
13 JanIt was a 20 minute drive and very worth it! My Caramel Frap was the most delicious one I’ve had in awhile. Sometimes they skimp on the caramel and whipped cream – not this time though. I always order the smallest size but it’s been so long since I had one I went all out and made it a “venti”! Man was that thing HUGE! IT WAS AWESOME!
I don’t get out much, can you tell? I don’t care – it was a very enjoyable moment for me and I look forward to the next one! I think I’ll wait a week or so though after savoring all those calories and fat! At least now I know where I need to go for my Frap fix! (Thanks to Jason for the tip!)
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