So you've got to be asking yourself: where's the posts been? The answer is work and life.
Friday was first time last week that I could get out of work before midnight (slight exaggeration, it had been 7pm the last few nights). Anyway I ran out the door, did a quick trip to the store, and helped my wife with 'bushia cookies.' Now your asking: Erv, why would your wife torture you will yummylicious cream cheese cookies? Because of her little sister. Her one sister is leaving country for a new job and is going too miss Christmas and the cookies that go with the holiday. So it was all for a good cause.
Saturday was our weekly running. Also for the party I made some lemon bars, catching up on laundry, fixing a hard drive for said sister, and sending out our other baked goods to the soldiers we support overseas. Somewhere in there I did collapse for about a half hour. I was quite pleased with lemon bars. They didn't taste like poop, actually they tasted quite good.
Sunday was church, taking stuff over to my in-laws for the going away party. But I did almost have a nervous breakdown: there wasn't a veggie tray. I reassured that there would be veggie tray and there wasn't one. Some many carb rich food and nary a carrot to be found.
My rough patches were the lemon bars - I tried one and was only suppose to be a bite but turned in a whole one. It almost became two because I'm so use to downing one thing after another. The other rough time was at the party. I had a few of these cream cheese roll ups and about 2-3 slices of Marcos pizza. I can't say exactly how many because the pizza was cut into squares.
All things considered I think I was pretty good. For the meals themselves I had some fresco style stuff from da' Bell, a turkey Sub from da' Way, a chicken salad from Mickey D's, and a taco salad from Wendy's. Lots of yogurt abounded for breakfast.
Monday I was pretty good. Yogurt for breakfast and a onion breadie thing. The day before I remembered that I had some canned salmon and decided I would make it. You usually just mix the fish with breadcrumbs, onions, eggs and spices and lightly fry it. Well I opened the can found out that the salmon had a ton of bones and other unappetizing bits. So in trash the can went. That left me with a mix of patty mix stuff. I didn't want to throw it away so I added an extra egg and some chipotle seasoning and slow fried them in light oil. They tested really good and with onions cutting the breadcrumbs the calories weren't to bad. The carbs were terrible, but the overall calories were good.
Lunch was the standard affair as the last few days. I did finish off my old lunch snacks so lunch will be getting interesting. Dinner was late because of work. So I came home microwaved some turkey chili that was on sale at Aldi's (best place for yogurt if you don't have to have the name brands) and poured it over a couple of crush corn chips, Romanian lettuce, salsa and cheese. It was darn tasty.
Tuesday (today) was yogurt for breakfast, left over chili salad for lunch, and two egg rolls for dinner. I love the hot dogs and tornadoes from Speedway. I have to stay away as much as possible or I will slip back into grabbing something here or there again an ruin my diet. Fortunately I've been able to channel those feeling (best word?) into buying diet cranberry soda. I think I'll be doomed after Christmas :)
So I'm tired and after I finish doing a quick edit on the post and put up the animals I plan on going to bed.
BTW: Thanks for encouragement. You know who you are.
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