Ok, but first I will praise my alma mater ...Go BAMA! Alabama #1.!!!
Next, Life in my home or at least the tone right now is a little out of control or at least very tense, emotional, damaged, and filled with uneasy silences. There isn't much I can control but how I approach things, how I manage my food, and work to improve my body. So that being said, I am in 'uber manage my food' mode.
I do best with eating balanced and healthy and tasty food when I plan and really think about it. But food taste better from restaurants. Well, yeah. But it's gonna make you fatter. (those are the voices in my head).I'm usually a go with the flow girl and that is a recipe for disaster. I tend to given in when I listen to the voice that says "let's go get......".
So I try to be a 'home cook'. I'm not a cook or a foodie blogger that takes great snaps of my final product, that's for sure. But I can throw together a few simple things and somewhat follow a recipe. I knew that the 3 minute cookie recipe time that I wrote down that said microwave for 45 minutes was probably wrong. see. :/
Soups, roasted veggies , and chili are my speciality. I got up an hour before work and threw together a broccoli/ham/ cheddar frittata, a basic cornbread recipe to go with chili that I have, and a 3 minute oatmeal cookie from Carrots n Cake blog (it is essentially just oatmeal). Now I have chicken breasts going in the crockpot just with lemon and pepper to "roast".
It works for me. Now I can plan meals for the next few days. See, I do learn something from the internet. And it's keeping me less haphazard in meal selection.
Happy tooooseday.
Cooking at home is so much better for you, and cheaper too, I noticed. I find myself much less likely to pig out on good foods that I make myself as opposed to what I get at restaurants.
ReplyDeleteThis post made me chuckle, except for the tenseness you describe (and that is so familiar to me as well). Your crock pot chicken breasts sound fabulous. I too have the warped belief that "foods taste better from restaurants." Wait...no... it's not a belief. It's the voice of one of those dang addictive devils that sits on my shoulder and blathers nonsense. Happened tonight, saying how good restaurant pizza is... I escaped for once, and had left over pea/bean/veggie/ham soup, which was, in fact much more delicious than any pizza from a restaurant. Hoooooooray for us!
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