Self-Control, Part II
Rice-A-Roni boxes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A week ago I wrote about my self-control experiment. I am proud to announce that I made it through the week upholding my pledge against any form of dining out. I didn’t even stop at a convenience store! I did make two trips to SuperTarget. Now, I’m not going to claim I ate healthily all the time. What passes for “cooking” within my domestic confines usually follows these steps:
1) Remove box from freezer
2) Remove tray from box
3) Cut slit in plastic on top
4) Bake for ~60 minutes
5) Turn off oven, then leave it in there for at least another hour while I watch TV, talk on the phone with my best friend, and/or fall asleep in my recliner
Tonight I stepped it up. I made Rice-a-Roni with chicken AND a salad. Sure, it was fully-cooked, pre-grilled, pre-diced frozen chicken and salad pre-mix in a bag, and I used those little grape tomatoes because I wouldn’t want to have to actually chop tomatoes– just as I had shredded cheese; wouldn’t want to have to grate that either. But ladies and gentlemen, for this denizen of the drive-thru, this apostle of the church of convenience, that is PROGRESS.
Which I will halt when I go to happy hour tomorrow. With the girls, rather than playing basketball with the bros. But that’s another post.
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Woohoo! Proud of you!!
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Hey, now… Rice-a-Roni actually requires boiling water… that’s definitely a higher-order cooking skill.
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Interested in hearing about happy hour with the girls!! I just had lunch with almost all the guys I work with, and got picked on mercilessly, but didn’t really mind because it gives me fuel for revenge! I have good female friends, but I prefer to work with men. Women can be such back-stabbing bitches in the workplace. Seems like a good topic to blog on!!
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I could have sworn I commented already. Great job sticking to your goals. Now you have to start asking, said best friend, for her recipes so you can eat better then out of a cooking tray or box.
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Ooooh. Rice-a-Roni. One of my guilty pleasures. A week’s worth of sodium in one little box.
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That’s an improvement over drive thru’s. You should try cooking, you might like it. I never thought I would but now I think it’s kind of fun creating a meal all by myself. 🙂
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Hi Jason, I’ve nominated you for The Versatile Blogger award. Please read my latest post.
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I’m a personal chef by profession, (author only sometimes, but I am working on it..)so let me know if you need any easy peasy recipes. Charming post! 🙂
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By all means, please share! Easy peasy is exactly what I need 😀
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So understand the bachelorette life and cooking for uno. Congratulations on the progress 🙂 That is truly remarkable. My nutrition fluctuates enough I have come to rely on a daily super vitamin and, when blender clean, a smoothie. Take care.
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I have tried multivitamins in the past but always had problems swallowing that horse pill. (I have a bad gag reflex, it’s a good thing I’m not a girl– or gay)… but now that they make gummy ones for adults, I am trying those. Smoothies I should definitely do more of. Thanks so much for the comment 🙂
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