Twinkies: 300 cal. Popcorn: 180 cal. Black Coffee: 5 cal. (Maybe) Definitely a lot closer than I would have guessed. Guess I'm a healthier eater than I thought I was.
Per Livestrong, a standard bag of microwave popcorn has 413 calories, so probably. If the Twinkies are really old (pre-2013), they add another 300 calories, but if they're newer than that, they'll only add 270. However, according to the same article, if the popcorn had been air-popped and without added butter or oils, it would have been 108 calories, so even if @The Dapper Hooligan had really old Twinkies, he'd come in just under the wire. With the newer ones, he'd be able to add one packet of Domino sugar (15 calories) and one mini-tub of Coffee-Mate Original Creamer (15 calories) to his coffee for a healthy, balanced breakfast. What do you mean I'm procrastinating? ETA: Took me too long to research this, it seems.
Tomorrow night is Smashburger. Not the best in nutrition, but better than certain other Mc Burger places. I'm planning a pineapple glazed stuffed porkchop for Saturday and Margherita steak for Sunday. This is a badass cookbook and with exception of a few, these recipes are supposed to be in the neighborhood of 350 calories.
Well, the package said 150 per cake, so I imagine I'm going to die soon. If I don't make it, tell my wife that I wish we'd gotten to know each other better.
I've done Hello Fresh and my sis, who lives in a remote area with extremely limited access to ingredients, does Home Chef. I like the Home Chef recipes better--lots more flavor with minimal effort, and higher in protein, although to be fair, Hello Fresh had just started out when I had a subscription. It is not cheap, but it saves a ton of time, and for someone like my sis who likes a wide variety of flavors but has no access to ingredients aside from the local Walmart, it's a great thing. I liked it for having more variety with less food waste for one or two people. (I don't have refrigerator or freezer space for storing full size packages of ingredients, and I like to vary my protein daily.) The main reason I stopped my subscription to Hello Fresh was, it was so much packaging to the landfill every week. Almost none of it was recyclable. ETA: As to what I'm cooking tonight, Orange-Grapefruit Chicken Fajitas (my recipe, not food in a box).
I'm about to make a massive taco at work. Chic, fish, beer, and a buttload of veggies... gonna b sick, but I don't care!
You can actually do taco bell without completely killing your program. Two tacos no cheese isn't too damaging, or my old diet standby: two grilled chicken soft tacos no cheese, then you transfer the filling from one onto the other taco so you're eliminating one tortilla. Although, if you have Del Taco, I recommend the same order from Del instead, because Del Taco uses fewer fake ingredients. ETA: Obviously I wouldn't do it every day, but you can do it without damage.
It's Friday afternoon, got some of that leftover curry, and Mrs. A has requested doria, so I'm reading up on how to do that for dinner. Actually, she requested risotto, but close enough. But actually, it's Friday afternoon, and I'm assembling ingredients for Sunday dinner: smoked shawarma-ish lamb shoulder with cucumber tzatziki sauce, Indian mint sauce*, and hummus (I'm going to make kind of a taco bar setup with different sauces and toppings: crumbled feta cheese, mixed olive dice, tomato-ish something, whatever else occurs to me in the next thirty hours or so), with a side of tabbouleh salad. Because I have the time to do it, that's why. Today's lunch, on the other hand, is going to be canned Hormel chili, because I've got no one to share with. *Not fun fact: Most recipes for Indian mint sauce have, as their first ingredient, pre-prepared mint sauce. There are times I want to bayonet recipe-writers right in their stupid recipe-writing faces....
Time different much! It's Friday morning over here. Maybe it's getting closer to noon, but I've just woken up, so it's morning. As for food. Breakfast. I don't even want to think about cooking tonight.
Wife's own traditional recipe: bullet balls & twice-cooked pasta shells al sog. Tonight is Friday, so of course fish and chips. Although this will mean going outdoors and speaking: 'Aye duck, can help thou?' 'Ehmm, ehmm, ehmm, hadok? Is that how yew pipple say it? Hadok and a portion of your delicious northern chips, thank you. May I sit down?' 'Sit where like faggot, fuckin southerner, think own place, salt n vinger? 'Aye, love.' 'You taking piss, scarper jerrymander/apeth/twat...' tbc
A Taco Bell taco made to corporate standards contains a quarter ounce (~7g) of cheese, or about 28 calories. My manager used to yell at us (quietly, so the customers didn't hear) "Remember, cheese is for color!" Yelling quietly is an important management skill that Gordon Ramsay never learned.
My local Taco Bell piles the stuff really high, so it's gotta be 50-75 calories per taco. But, as an aside *high fives @Iain Aschendale* I worked at Taco Bell too! It was during the last gasp of the good ol' days when they still actually cooked the refried beans.
When I worked there, they still cooked the refried beans with lard. Loved serving bean burritos to,the vegetarians
I've been playing around with modified egg rolls - highly modified, basically just stuffing various fillings into egg roll wrappers and pan frying them - and tonight's batch were delicious! Chicken and bean sprouts and carrots, which isn't too exciting, but I got the seasonings just right and I used avocado oil instead of canola in the frying pan, which gave a little extra something, I think. Of course, I can't remember what seasonings I used, or in what proportions, but at least it's good to know I can make these things tasty. Now I just need more ingredients...
