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. 

 

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

 

And then I opened it.

 

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.

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.

Last 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. 

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”. 

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. 

Above: All diced up.

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

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