Guess what was staring in my face every time I went into our lunch room yesterday?
Not just any Cheeto – cheddar jalapeno people! I must have been in the kitchen half a dozen times yesterday making my breakfast and lunch, and filling up my water bottle. Um, but guess who didn’t eat any?! Me! It helped that my co-worker told me “they probably are stale.” In any case – I’ll take another NSV yesterday!
Best part about Wednesday? Bagel Wednesday! Jalapeno Cheddar with 1 tablespoon light cream cheese and 1/4 cup egg white in the middle. 372 calories, 4.3 fat, 65 carbs, 4 fiber and 19 protein.
I’ve been working on a project at work involving numbers – me and numbers don’t work so well together. I talked to Tony around 11:45 and told him I was just about to go work out. I started on my project again and next thing I knew it was 1:15! I missed my workout window. 
But I had Nicole’s Lemon Orzo soup for lunch. My only difference I that I make my chicken stock with leftover chicken carcasses, skin bones and everything – but you can use her version by picking off the meat of a rotisserie chicken. I also left out the spinach. Love the tanginess of the lemon!
My two cup serving comes in at: 330 calories, 13.5 fat, 57 carbs, 2.9 fiber and 39 protein.
I hate spiders. Really most insects creep me out. Right now? I have a cricket in my basement. It chirps all the time until it hears me, then stops, and then when I walk away it starts all over again. I have no idea how its surviving down there! When I took this picture, I saw the spider in the corner of the window – I was afraid it was one of those jumping spiders and I got the hockey puck out of there!
I did get a little snacky in the afternoon and found this in my desk drawer – Quaker chewy chocolate mint. I have no idea how long its been there, the neon green chips kind of freaked me out but it was good and held me until dinner – 100 calories, 3 fat, 18 carbs, 1 fiber 1 protein.
I know just like my KERF post, I am going to get flack about my side dish last night. You all know Tony and I abhor onions. Like in just about everything. That is except for . . . onion rings. But we are pretty particular – light batter, SUPER THIN rings. I put the nutrition for these rings without deep frying because alternatively, you could bake these at 450 for 15 minutes.
I’ve also said before that since we use a deep fryer, the oil keeps its temperature and it doesn’t come out greasy – I did add 1 teaspoon of oil to the dinner as a whole, but I doubt that much oil was absorbed.
Beer Battered Onion Rings for Two
- 172 calories, .36 fat, 33 carbs, 1 fiber 4 protein
Ingredients:
- 1 large vadalia onion, sliced thin
- 4 ounces beer (I used Summer Shandy)
- 1/2 cup flour
- pinch of salt and pepper
- pinch of cayenne pepper
Mix the beer, flour, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper together to make a batter. I did this in 3 batches, but dip your onions in the batter, shake to coat, then deep fry or bake – deep frying only takes about a minute since they are so thin. When I do them in batches, I under cook them a bit the first time around. Then right before serving, I drop everyone back in the pool for about 30-45 seconds. Drain on a paper bag and be sure to salt when they come out the second time.
These came out amazeballs – light, super crunchy – with my 4 oz cheese burger in the back, dinner all together comes in at 585 calories, 19 fat, 57 carbs, 2.9 fiber and 39 protein.
Stats for Wednesday:
- 1387 calories, 40 fat, 172 carbs, 9.4 fiber and 79 protein
- 50% calories from carbs, 26 from fat, 24 from protein
- no exercise
- average blood sugar 178
I am going to see one of my former co-workers tonight while Tony watches the Chicago Bears game – can’t wait to catch up with her! I am HORRIBLE at keeping up with work relationships if I or the other person leaves. Doesn’t matter if I’ve eaten lunch with you every day for 3 years – I am so bad about that!
Do you stay in touch with old co-worker friends – maybe I am not that abnormal about it? Make it a great day!
I haven’t tried making onion rings at home but a friend made some once and they were fantastic! She did the really skinny shoe-lace type of onion rings. So good.
No, I usually don’t keep in touch with co-workers that leave. Except for 2 girls and that after a working career of 25 years 🙂 I don’t feel the need to keep in touch with most of them after they leave.
The onion rings look so good! I am pretty bad about staying in touch with people.. facebook does help though!
I’m terrible about keeping in touch with people. I communicate much more regularly with other bloggers than any ‘real life’ friends. Yes, I’m antisocial! That lemon chicken orzo soup is one of my favorite soups. Need to make it soon!