Potentially funny thoughts from a local comic
I always get excited about something new, and these Eat! frozen entrees were no exception! I tried 3 – I can go back and get more if they are good. I started with the beef and broccoli. The packaging, frankly, is prettier than the food. These are small. I have no idea how they fit…
Last Saturday, we went to Dollar Tree in between an afternoon picnic and our dinner plans. I got chicken breast strips. The bag had 9 tenders – enough to make 3 salads. I had blueberries and whipped cream for dessert. Antioxidants and phytochemicals! The next day, I made white chocolate pudding. My partner likes white…
The other morning at work, I was hungry. My grilled chicken salad wasn’t going to cut it. A new barbecue place opened in a gas station near my work, but when I got there at 11:55 a.m., they said it would be 20 more minutes before food would be ready! I didn’t want to wait,…
I have been an on-and-off vegetarian ever since I was 12 years old. At age 12, I had some neighbors raising rabbits to eat, and I thought that was gross. I stopped eating meat, but I am pretty sure I never told them. I’m currently not a vegetarian, but I’m still trying to eat less…
I’d like to share a couple of Dollar Tree adventures from the past few weeks. I’ll start with White Castle. When I was a kid, White Castle was this distant wonderland. When I was maybe 10 or 11, my mom brought me to Detroit to see a Tigers game. On the way, we stopped to…
I revisited the Loma plant-based meals this week. They are good, but we bought so many that we’re struggling to eat them all! I realized after maybe my 10th packet that the Tikki Masala packet tasted more like chili than anything, so I heated it up, added a little additional water and cheese and chili…
Today, I have two meals to share with you: Asian-inspired potstickers, and Indian-spiced riced cauliflower. I had the potstickers for breakfast. With 14 grams of protein (and another 3 grams in the dip), it was hearty. The riced cauliflower was a delicious, low-calorie dinner. The entire bag of riced cauliflower contains less than 100 calories,…
Here is a link to my dad’s music. As a songwriter, he writes folk, rock, and some country. Excellent lyrics, and some of the songs are about me!
I adore the Dax Shepard podcast, “Armchair Expert.” In the latest episode, he was interviewing Gwyneth Paltrow. They were talking about nutrition, and Dax made an interesting comment: basically, secular people treat nutrition like religion! We seek purity through what we eat. I studied dietetics in undergrad, but people rarely ask me for food advice….
Most of my Dollar Tree Dining posts so far have been about snacks; not necessarily full meals. They have not necessarily been nutritionally balanced. I am changing my focus now, and making satisfying meals with ingredients purchased at Dollar Tree. Yesterday, I spent $3 at Dollar Tree and made a healthy, well-balanced dinner for two…