3-27-10 Saturday (Eat Mor Chikin)

Last night, I was going to make Jim a pizza for dinner.  Before I get too deep into the story I must tell you that I bought this pizza crust a month ago.  Jim and I both checked the date of it last week to see if it was any good. 

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Wow, this must be chock full of preservatives.  Mmmmmm, mmmmmm, sounds good.

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And then I opened it.

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Frankly, the mold scares me.  It’s not quite the green mold variety you’d expect to find especially on a “bread” product.  I’m hoping to gain super powers or something.  I haven’t settled on the whole for good or evil thing yet so don’t push me.

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Jim craved a breakfast buffet.  Off to Ryan’s we went.  I think their selection is smaller than Golden Corral but it was only $5.  I had an omelet, bacon, and sausage.  I was disappointed that unlike Golden Corral, they didn’t have any salad out.  BUT, once again, I pat myself on the back for sticking to the diet.

The funniest thing.  The other day, fellow blogger Jason posted a humorous entry about having a PTA meeting at a Hometown Buffet and the coordinator was kind enough to include a link to the restaurant’s “how to buffet” instructions.  So as I was creating this entry about Ryan’s, as typical I search for a website to include in the blog.  When I visited Ryan’s I saw a “how to buffet” link, clicked on it and it turned out to be almost identical to Hometown’s.  Funny.  Compare the 2 if you’d like.  Hometown’s vs. Ryan’s.

DIH - Dasher AlienLast year:

  • I spoke about Alix’s motivating diet words which obviously didn’t motivate me enough. 
  • Picnicked in Beverly Hills.
  • Toured Hollywood Blvd.
  • Hollywood Museum in the old Max Factor building.
  • I made a cool video!

With Jim happy (breakfast), we shopped at BJ’s for a few things.  They had a Chick-Fil-A booth there. 

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Later we checked out a place we had been seeing advertised on TV.  Bargain Max.  A deep discount store.  For our Fort Myers friends, it’s like the Price Cutter in North Fort Myers only much, much, much dumpier.  Expired foods, dumpy location, icky stuff.

Here’s the outside of the building with no signage to indicate it’s “Bargain Max”. 

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Boarded up front windows which may be where the office is located because from the inside it’s just a big warehouse.  A skanky place for sure.

For dinner, I made Jim garlic bread, whole wheat rotini pasta and turkey meatballs.  I realized much later that I had eaten 2-3 pieces of pasta by accident.  It was habit to eat a piece and see if it was cooked enough.  I could kick myself.  Hopefully 2-3 pieces didn’t screw me up.  For my dinner, I had pork chops and peas. 

After dinner, while the kitchen was still open, I baked off 4 pans of chicken for lunch salads.  Some time tomorrow I’ll separate the chicken into portions, Vacu-seal them and freeze.  Hopefully with what I baked will be several weeks worth of chicken. 

1Above: All diced up.

Below: I used a bunch of bananas to illustrate how large the bowl is.2

Ut oh, my super power might be baking large amounts of chicken.  Damn it!

5 comments:

  1. That's either a nasty pizza dough infection with an oozing pustule or yellow mold which, in a pool, is super tough to get rid of. Probably easier to just eat the damn thing.

    Love the photo of Jim and the Chick-fil-A Cow. How do you bump into these photo ops?

    PS: I see my name in your Day In Our HIstory box. I like being in your daily posts. Keep it up.

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  2. 1. I *heart* chick fil a.

    2. I made pizzas for me and the kids this weekend! I used a whole wheat naan for the crust- got it at Super Target. Kids had sauce, pepperoni, cheese. I had pesto, artichokes, mushrooms, a little cheese. So good!!

    3. Do you know about the yummy pepperoni snack you can make? Put a paper towel on a plate. Put a layer of pepperoni. Zap in the microwave in 30 second increments until crispy. For a healthier version, you can use turkey pepperoni. But the beauty of Atkins is you can eat real pepperoni!!

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  3. @Alix: Ewwww, I believe you may have made it a bit nastier than it already was.

    Photo ops are all over the place. Just pay attention.

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  4. @Liz: Pepperoni - mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    The pizza sounds healthier. {high 5}

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  5. I had a good chuckle at Jim and the Eat more chikin cow pic. What a nice couple they make. WHAT? That is you, Garret, in the cow costume?....Figures!
    Ken from Tampa

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