Before we get to the topic of today’s post, the winner of my 1,000,000 page view giveaway is . . .
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Aimee on October 24, 2012 at 1:17 pm said:Edit
Since I can’t run I have to ride the bike which means I get to read blogs the very second they hit my reader. Congratulations Biz!! That’s awesome. I live in Massachusetts. Off to twat the giveaway! Sounds so dirty. LOL!! Have a great day.
Congrats Aimee! Send me an email at mybizzykitchen@gmail.com with your mailing address.
Let’s quickly show yesterdays eats, because after seeing the food pics, you may not have an appetite!
I tried making a pumpkin parfait. It is close to being great. I love that it isn’t overly sweet, but I need to add some texture to the canned pumpkin – maybe mix it with diced apple or dried cranberries? Admittedly, my co-worker thought it looked like baby food, but this was delicious – 1 container of plain Chobani, 1/2 cup of canned pumpkin mixed with 1 tablespoon of sugar free pancake syrup, and for the granola, I broke up one piece of Pioneer woman’s granola bars.
I left my good camera at the office, so thanks google images for my breakfast and lunch pictures! My parfait came in at 388 calories, 6 fat, 62 carbs (eek!), 7.4 fiber and 25 protein.
I WENT TO THE GYM! Knowing that I still had over 100 miles to get to in just 9 days, I ended up doing 12.9 miles on the exercise bike in 45 minutes. I did random hills on level 5 and kept my RPMs over 100 the whole time – its been nearly a week since I’ve worked out!
Lunch was leftovers – red beans and rice with sausage, mixed with 1 cup chopped baby spinach. Lunch comes in at 555 calories, 23 fat, 60 carbs, 8.7 fiber and 27 protein. Can you tell I chose this picture off of google images because of the Tabasco sauce??!!
When I got home Tony asked what was for dinner. I said chicken. He said “didn’t we have chicken last night?” Well, yes we did, but chicken was the only meat I had thawed out. So I said “chicken sandwiches and fries or chicken mushroom pasta.” He said “Chik-fil-A sandwiches with mayo and pickles!”
Truth be told, I still have yet to try a Chik-fil-A. I told you there was one that opened up near our house but the place is always packed, even two lanes in the drive-thru!
I loosely based my recipe on this one: Um, there’s looks pretty amazeballs!
I did ours a bit differently. Each of our chicken sandwiches was only 4 ounces and pounded thin. Each sandwich maybe retained 1 tablespoon of milk and 1 tablespoon of the flour mixture. I didn’t butter our buns, and I left out the powdered sugar in the recipe, but that’s just a personal taste.
I topped ours with 1/2 ounce slices of American cheese, used light (80 calorie) buns, and I topped mine with these pickles, which are amazing and almost all gone.
I was going to throw the brine away when I saw on the label: “uses for pickle juice: marinate chicken, pork or beef.” What??!! I am bringing pulled pork sandwiches for our Halloween luncheon next week and plan to use this. Yum! So my sandwich by itself comes in at 347 calories, 23 fat, 15 carbs, .1 fiber and 22 protein.
I may have dipped my fries in this?
It was a simple, quick and easy week night dinner. You should check out the original recipe though if you’ve had Chik-fil-A before.
It’s been a couple months since I KERFed out loud. I actually haven’t read her blog lately, but my co-worker sent me a link. She and I are on the same page that we just can’t figure out what is so interesting about her – I think she doesn’t seem to have much personality, I’ve never known a blogger to post more pictures of themselves into almost every post. (Tony thinks that I am just jealous that her blog is more popular than mine!)
What stopped me in my tracks?
SHE ATE HER PLACENTA!!
In her original post she actually posted the picture of the woman who was encapsulating her placenta, while her placenta was on the kitchen counter. It’s since been cropped, so I won’t let you get too grossed out.
That lady above drove 100 miles round trip ($300 in total to cook the placenta and mileage) to make placenta tea and encapsulate her placenta into pills. Their doula took the placenta from the delivery room and brought it back to KERF’s refrigerator.
Nicole also left “placenta tea” in fridge for when I got home, which was essentially the broth she cooked it in (I think?) seasoned with spices and flavors to make it palatable. I was brave and gave it a taste – it was like the strongest black and herbal tea I’ve ever had mixed together. There was no trace of iron or blood or anything gross. In fact, both my MOM and MATT tasted it!!!
There was no trace of iron or blood or anything gross? Seriously, I am just happy I was young and clueless when I had Hannah. There was no internet to speak of, I didn’t read any books. Just followed my doctors advice and somehow she turned out okay.
Am I just old and this is the newest and latest thing?? I am so curious to hear what my nurse and RD blogging friends have to say about it!
And will wait to see the comments for me to just mind my own business. It’s okay, I’ve got my big girl pants on today.
HAPPY FRIDAY! Only 94.33 miles to go in my 170 miles challenge – woot!
I’ve never been to Chic-fil-a either. They don’t have them in Minnesota.
I laughted at the placenta thing. I’ve never heard of that. I could MAYBE see if we lived in hard times where nourishment was an issue or something. But really. So not necessary.
Reading this is a great diet tool……..grossed me out!
Your pumpkin parfait looks good to me, I’m going to try it and throw in some craisins.
Good for getting to the gym! Have an excellent weekend! 🙂
I’m sorry but that is just gross!
Great job on your exercise Biz! I love pulled chicken sandwiches with pickles! I have a good slow cooker recipe for them. Great for making for company.
Have a fantastic weekend.
eww! I only read KERF occasionally, and never checked out her baby blog. Glad I didn’t! I’ve heard of people doing this, but it’s absolutely something you should keep to yourself.
With that insipid smile on her face she looks like someone who would eat or drink placenta. Mondo grosso . . . got that bilely taste in my mouth just reading about it. I try to keep an open mind and not be judgmental – but, that is too over the top!
Yeah, I think the placenta eating thing is a fad. Creepy, though. Yuck. I read somewhere that someone else wanted to send a loved one’s ashes to be compressed into a cubic zirconia to wear as jewelry. Ewww? I guess there is always a niche market to make money.
I won! Yay!!! Thank you so much Biz. That whole placenta business is all the rage amongst a few new moms in the blog world. Hey like with anything else put a little Barney Butter and some chia seeds on it and you would never know you were eating human tissue!
OMG Aimee – that is too funny! Like Tony and I say – we pretty much would eat anything if it was breaded and deep fried!
Ugh on the placenta eating. Sorry, even if you choose to do something like that, you don’t have to SHARE IT with everyone on the internet!
My daughter in law had a baby 7 months old and she had a doula and this is just what she did. I think it was crazy. I’m with you glad I didn’t have all this information.
Biz, I worked in L&D for 8+ years, I have honestly never heard of anyone taking their placenta home to eat. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I mean out in the wild, I suppose animals do this…but hey, we’re civilized right?
chik-fil-A is one of those things I reserve for once a year. I LOVE the original sandwich and the waffle fries they sell. It was hard staying away when I did some promo work for my neighbor who owns a store. It’s so good though. The chicken is actually pressure fried. This keeps it tender, moist, and keeps it from absorbing too much oil.
Thank you Renee – I knew someone would know! They even had to fight at the hospital a bit to be able to take it home – ew.
I think I just threw up a little – that’s just disgusting!
Your food looks delicious, think I’ll make a pumpkin parfait for lunch today. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
That’s just gross. Have you seen the movie Wanderlust? there’s a couple in it who decide to leave their kid’s placenta attached until it fell off on it’s own (super hippies) and the dad just walked around behind the mom with it in a bowl. Gag.
This will make you smile (or just laugh)…Darren called me last night to tell me he had a present for me…and it was a freaking ROOSTER hahahhaha.
That made me laugh Errign – love it!! I am so happy you are happy – you deserve it!
I’m definitely grossed out about eating the placenta….sometimes we just have to draw the line….and that is the line for me!
I visited our Chick-fil-a for the first time yesterday. It has been open over a year. The sandwich was o.k. but the chicken wasn’t crisp but a big soggy. Yuck on the placenta!!
That’s what Tony says – he thinks its overrated, but I’ve never tried it – and didn’t realize they were open for breakfast either!
I actually made a pumpkin parfait very similar to that! I dipped graham crackers in it 🙂
I’m truly speechless with regards to the placenta.
Chick-fil-a on the other hand, YUM! Yes you must try it . My daughter and I love the chicken on Multigrain bagel for breakfast. It is so big we usually split one.
Whoa! That’s craziness right there. And I have to say, totally grosses me out think about it. Eeewww.
u lost me at placenta…grosssss. Still have no clue what KERF is. Also – this time of year I always get a craving to cook with pumpkin and every time this year I realize – I just don’t like pumpkin infused meals…so I will enjoy your pumpkin posts but refrain from cooking with it this year. Good luck getting in your miles….now that you’ve finished your roof project you’ll make your goal.
OMG, you have to try Chick Fil A!! I don’t live by one anymore–so sad!
And seriously, gross!!! The whole “placenta tea” almost made me throw up…I can’t even imagine having that in my fridge, let alone drinking it…