www.archive.org<\/a>).\nOne \u201cdangerous\u201d thing that rears its ugly head, however, is I\nalways seem to gravitate toward comfort food while I’m home by\nmyself. I’m talking \u201chigh-octane\u201d food here… yummy stuff with\nlots of fat and salt, and then some sugary wonderfulness for dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMy normal fare when my Lovely Bride is\naround slants more toward lean proteins, whole grain breads and \/ or\npasta, or maybe some brown rice, and lots of green vegetables. \nBelieve it or not, I really do love all that stuff. I almost always\nhave some very healthy fare for lunch at work: I fill a 4-cup Pyrex\nbowl with greens, onions, mushrooms, and maybe some shrimp or\nchicken; seasoned with some garlic, maybe some oregano or thyme,\nmaybe some soy sauce. Nuke it for 3 \u00bd \u2013 4 minutes and lunch is\nready. Very delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, when my Sweetie goes out of town,\nI’ll admit, I get a little lonely. This seems to cause my taste buds\nto shift toward things that don’t exactly help me keep my manly\nfigure very trim (OK, it’s not so trim anyway right now, but never\nmind). Monday was pizza night. I like making my own, although I\ncheat on two things: the sauce and the crust. I get a Boboli\npre-made crust, and some Classico Organic Pizza Sauce. Both of those\nare truly excellent in my professional opinion. Then I cook up the\n\u201chealthy\u201d stuff: some gluten free Italian sausage from Mac’s\nMeats in Rothbury, MI, minced onions, minced peppers, black olives,\nmushrooms, and some whole grain, uncured pepperoni (no nasty\nchemicals). Set the oven for 450, toss the pizza in (I don’t\npreheat for this pizza), and after about 15 minutes, dinner is\nserved. And yes, I know there’s no such thing as whole grain\npepperoni. But the Italian sausage is definitely gluten free (ha).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday morning’s breakfast: leftover\npizza and some orange juice (again, healthy stuff). Tuesday’s lunch:\n dead chicken, greens, onions, mushrooms in that Pyrex bowl. \nTuesday’s dinner: leftover pizza! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday’s breakfast: the last of the\nleftover pizza and more healthy orange juice. More greens, onions,\nmushrooms, and chicken in the Pyrex lunch bowl. The evening meal was\na bison burger at a local pub with my son (holy moly those are good).\n When I got home I may have accidentally eaten a Ritter chocolate bar\nwith hazelnuts (made in Germany but only $2.39 at Meijer… holy\nmoly, those are good too!!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thursday’s breakfast: the old\nstandard, peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat, with a handful of\nfrozen blueberries and some fat free milk. Lunch: did I mention the\nPyrex bowl?? Oh but dinner… Mmmmmmm. Oink, oink. Snarf snarf. \nOh… what did I have? Fried chicken thigh, \u00be of a box of Cheezits;\nand washed it down with some Vernors. I may also have accidentally\nwrapped some of that leftover whole grain pepperoni in some sliced\ncheese for the 3rd<\/sup> course. Oh and for dessert: Reese’s\nPeanut Butter Cups. And of course when I was at the gourmet food\nstore (Dollar General), they had the King Size cups! Simply had\n<\/strong><\/em>to\ngo for those. All of these delicacies combined to make an elegantly\nsimple meal, exquisitely designed to clog arteries and raise blood\npressure. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\nFriday:\n peanut butter and jelly again. Hey, I like it!! Lunch: the Pyrex\nbowl again. But this time, it contained some leftover gluten free\nItalian sausage, leftover pizza sauce, onions, mushrooms, some\nchopped cherry tomatoes and green beans from the garden; all this\nseasoned with garlic powder and oregano, and laid atop some crushed\nup leftover Cheezits. Sounds weird but it was very tasty. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday’s\ndinner: YAY!! My Beautiful Girlfriend was on her way home! I used\nthe last of the gluten free Italian sausage and threw it in some\npasta sauce. Added some garlic, finely chopped greens, and sliced\ngreen beans from the garden and made some spaghetti!! The Oinky\nCholesterol-Salt-Sugar-Filled Feeding Frenzy has come to an end. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her arrival may well have saved me from a coronary event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I enjoyed all my snacks, and I promise I didn’t steal any of them…<\/p>\n\n\n\n