An impromptu dinner out last night, with stuff to watch on the DVR got in the way of me posting last night!
So yesterday, I woke up early to make my purple cauliflower mac n cheese – and decided to take advantage of a flyer I saw about a cafe in our building who was now offering an oatmeal bar.
I walked in, and said “I’d like to order the breakfast bar.” He clerk reached under a shelf, pulled out a Quaker plain instant oatmeal, added water and pointed me in the direction of the “oatmeal bar.” My choices? Brown sugar, slivered almonds and raisins. That’s it – and it cost $2.75! I could have bought a whole box of oatmeal for that amount of $$!
I went down to the gym to work out today, as my friends couldn’t walk. I did 35 minutes on the elliptical, did about 5 minutes of abs and was about to do the row machine, when I could feel my blood sugar hit the floor! Sure enough, when I got back to my desk, this is what I saw!
So I quickly ate two of these – OMG – so good!
I know people have been waiting with baited breath for my purple mac n cheese recipe, but I am not posting the recipe yet because its a work in progress. I think my mistake was using these noodles – each 2 ounce serving contains 12 grams of fiber! The result was almost cardboard like taste!
On the side I had red and green peppers, a big carrot, drizzled with light caeser dressing:
So my friend Renee at work told me she went to the BEST Chinese restaurant the other night. I told Tony about it, and when I walked in the door he’s like “we should check it out!” A good Chinese restaurant is hard to find these days, and we only have decent ones in our surrounding town. It was a bit of a drive, but we figured it was worth it. But it wasn’t! All three of our meals were so void of flavor, and my dish had a dragon’s mouth next to it to let me know its extra spicy! Um, not so much! And Hannah’s fried rice was dry, as if it had been reused or sitting around since 9:00 in the morning. Tony’s dish was pretty good – it was a fried breaded chicken dinner – the sauce on the top was delicious, but that was the only shining star of the evening – a tiny bit of sauce!
I got the Bird of Paradise, because I couldn’t figure out what meat I wanted to I got them all! Spicy garlic sauce? Nope!
I also got an eggroll – and its the most unusual egg roll ever – the inside was JUST cabbage wrapped and deep fried. Also flavorless – although I gave 1/4 of it Tony and we both liked the fact that it wasn’t too greasy.
I also had a couple of these:
It’s so hard to figure out calories at a restaurant – especially a Chinese place, so I am guestimating that with beer, my dinner was around 800 calories, 22 fat and 80 carbs.
Stats for Thursday:
- 1494 calories
- 62 fat
- 28 protein
- 183 carbs
- 25.9 fiber
- 36% of calories from fat
- 35 minute elliptical
- 5 minute abs
I think this week went by fast! Happy Friday and I’ll see you tonight! 😀
Can’t wait to see the perfected recipe for purple mac & cheese! I just started new event series “5 Star Makeover” (check it out on my site) and the first one’s theme is peaches & cream, but the next one will be makeovers of mac & cheese (sometime in October). Your purple mac & cheese would be a great entry!
You and I must have been thinking the same thing last night… Too bad that your Chinese turned out not so good. When it’s bad, it’s bad. 🙁 But your purple cauliflower mac and cheese looks and sounds interesting!
That pepper salad looks great!
Yumm and good workout!! That is soo lame about the oatmeal- I’ve only had oatmeal at a restaurant at au bon pain and they fill up a huge cup with thick, chewy oatmeal and have lots of toppings- so good!
I very rarely see Chinese food with WHOLE fresh cashews! They are usually pieces or halves. Very cool.
I’m glad you got off the row machine in time before your BS dropped any lower, yikes! Way to be a good diabetic 🙂
Thanks Gina – I actually thought of you when that number popped up! I need to stock up on glucose pills – only 10 calories for those! 😀
I hate it when restaurant food is bad – and having 2 disappointing meals in one day is terrible! I seriously would have followed that dinner with some ice cream to make up for it!
The “Oatmeal Bar” … whata racket!!!
Hope you have a great upcoming weekend!
Cheers,
The Bacon Lesbians 🙂
Ugh, I hate when food is supposed to be spicy & you’re scratching your head wondering why they bothered with the spicy notice on the menu.
We finally found a halfway decent Chinese place that is about 1 mile down the road BUT it really depends upon who is cooking. We love their chicken fried rice – moist, full of sweet onion & generous chunks of chicken – but sometimes it is kind of dry & the onoins are lacking…I know someone else was cooking that day. lol
Have a terrific weekend!
Lynn
Oh man…. sorry about the oatmeal bar and the bad Chinese food. Restaurants are such a bust sometimes. Have a wonderful weekend!
-A
Boo for restaurants that make bleh food.
makes you sorry you ate it!
I am still waiting for the purple mac n cheese (just cuz I want to know what the “purple” is all about!
🙂
Happy Friday
Oh my goodness were you in McHenry, IL at Plum Garden? I don’t know if there is more than one but that looks awfully familiar. LOL We don’t live too far from there and we used to go to Plum Garden all the time and loved it but it’s been a long time. Sorry it was a disappointing experience.
Sorry the Chinese food wasn’t good… It’s so disappointing when what you think will be a great meal doesn’t turn out so good…
Happy Friday! 🙂
I hate paying for food that stinks!
Sorry Biz!
Happy Fwiday!!
Toffee AND almonds?! What a great combination – dangerous but great 🙂
Boo to that egg roll! I love egg rolls so that would be a little disappointing!