What's for Dinner?
For the past few days I kept thinking garlic bread sounded good. I even have a package of my favorite kind to make at home, Cole's, in my freezer. However, stuff kept coming up so that I hadn't had a chance to make it yet. Today at work around 4 PM I decided that garlic bread still sounded good for dinner. I figured I should probably have something else with it, so I decided that on my way home from work I would get some fettuccine and bottled alfredo sauce to go with it. I pass by a grocery store every day on my way home from work and I often stop there to get dinner. Normally this works well and since I'm not usually super hungry at 5:30, so I don't buy a lot of stupid things.
Apparently tonight I was STARVING! While I was walking to my car from my office I decided that in addition to the fettuccine and alfredo sauce, I would also get a bag of Skittles. I go through candy phases and right now I love Skittles. When I got to the store I made a beeline for the Skittles. My plan was to pick up the Skittles, move on to the pasta aisle and leave. All was going well until I passed a display of Cheetos. I remembered how last time I was at the store I really wanted Cheetos Puffs and they didn't have any, so even though I didn't particularly want them tonight, I picked up a bag (they were on a great sale) to even things out. Then I continued to head to the pasta aisle. Unfortunately before you get to the pasta aisle you have to pass the frozen foods section.
Normally I am able to pass this aisle either without stopping, or by just managing to pick up a delicious 5 cheese and tomato frozen California Pizza Kitchen pizza. For some reason tonight I remembered that over the weekend when I was eating microwave popcorn and some old CheezNipz leftover from the airplane the last time I flew some where for lunch I thought to myself that I should really have more frozen stuff on hand (no idea why the garlic bread didn't sound good then), so I stupidly went down the aisle.
I happily filled my basket with frozen french fries (because that is actually what sounded good instead of popcorn over the weekend) and the aforementioned CPK pizza. I even managed to pass up some delicious looking hors d'oeuvres like pot stickers and potato skins and pizza rolls and perogies and peanut butter and jelly Crustless sandwiches. I was feeling good at my willpower and ready to pursue my pasta when I decided to walk down the second freezer aisle. I felt like there was something that I wanted, no... needed down there and I now remember it was frozen waffles. An in store display of syrup got to me. As I was walking to the waffles, I saw these:
The shadow around them kind of looks like a halo to me. I had almost purchased them once before but they weren't on sale then and I had eaten before going to the store. Therefore this time they were irresistible. I threw them in the basket (good thing I didn't have a cart!) and finally headed to the pasta aisle, grabbed what I needed without stopping for anything else, paid and left.
As I was driving home, I tried to figure out which of my new and exciting (although most all unhealthy) products I should have for dinner because by now the original garlic bread fettuccine dinner had lost its appeal. Honestly it lost its appeal the second I picked up the Bagel-fuls, but I figure pasta and sauce is always good to have on hand.
As I pulled my items out, tripping over cats demanding to be fed too, the draw of a fresh bag of Puff proved to be to great for me to resist. It was a good decision until I realized I had eaten about half of the bag and was starting to fell sick and not full (God! Hours later and I'm still eating them!). My original plan was to eat Puffs and Skittles but the Skittles seemed like a bit of an overkill now, so I decided to go for a Bagel-ful! After perusing the myriad of ways they could be prepared I decided on the toaster.
When it came out it looked like a bagel tube, which sounds kind of gross, but I mean it as a complement, as in the dough toasted up nicely. I took a bite and the bagel part was actually very good, but the cream cheese filling left a little to be desired. It was cold, which was kind of cool (heh) since it had been toasted, but it had a weird almost chunky/ chalky texture and very little flavor. I thought maybe when it warmed up the flavor would come out, but it seemed like what little flavor there was lessened as it became room temperature.
Bagel-fuls come 4 to a pack. I am a notorious frozen food waster because after the initial opening, anything that stays frozen but open seems to taste like freezer burn after being open for, like, a few hours. To combat this Bagel-fuls are wrapped individually, which I like, but I still feel like if I manage to eat 1 or 2 more before I deem them inedible (and continue to store them safely in the back of my freezer) it will be a feat.
Now, which one of you is coming over to pry the nearly empty bag of Puff away from my increasingly meaty and cholesterol-filled hands?
Apparently tonight I was STARVING! While I was walking to my car from my office I decided that in addition to the fettuccine and alfredo sauce, I would also get a bag of Skittles. I go through candy phases and right now I love Skittles. When I got to the store I made a beeline for the Skittles. My plan was to pick up the Skittles, move on to the pasta aisle and leave. All was going well until I passed a display of Cheetos. I remembered how last time I was at the store I really wanted Cheetos Puffs and they didn't have any, so even though I didn't particularly want them tonight, I picked up a bag (they were on a great sale) to even things out. Then I continued to head to the pasta aisle. Unfortunately before you get to the pasta aisle you have to pass the frozen foods section.
Normally I am able to pass this aisle either without stopping, or by just managing to pick up a delicious 5 cheese and tomato frozen California Pizza Kitchen pizza. For some reason tonight I remembered that over the weekend when I was eating microwave popcorn and some old CheezNipz leftover from the airplane the last time I flew some where for lunch I thought to myself that I should really have more frozen stuff on hand (no idea why the garlic bread didn't sound good then), so I stupidly went down the aisle.
I happily filled my basket with frozen french fries (because that is actually what sounded good instead of popcorn over the weekend) and the aforementioned CPK pizza. I even managed to pass up some delicious looking hors d'oeuvres like pot stickers and potato skins and pizza rolls and perogies and peanut butter and jelly Crustless sandwiches. I was feeling good at my willpower and ready to pursue my pasta when I decided to walk down the second freezer aisle. I felt like there was something that I wanted, no... needed down there and I now remember it was frozen waffles. An in store display of syrup got to me. As I was walking to the waffles, I saw these:
The shadow around them kind of looks like a halo to me. I had almost purchased them once before but they weren't on sale then and I had eaten before going to the store. Therefore this time they were irresistible. I threw them in the basket (good thing I didn't have a cart!) and finally headed to the pasta aisle, grabbed what I needed without stopping for anything else, paid and left.As I was driving home, I tried to figure out which of my new and exciting (although most all unhealthy) products I should have for dinner because by now the original garlic bread fettuccine dinner had lost its appeal. Honestly it lost its appeal the second I picked up the Bagel-fuls, but I figure pasta and sauce is always good to have on hand.
As I pulled my items out, tripping over cats demanding to be fed too, the draw of a fresh bag of Puff proved to be to great for me to resist. It was a good decision until I realized I had eaten about half of the bag and was starting to fell sick and not full (God! Hours later and I'm still eating them!). My original plan was to eat Puffs and Skittles but the Skittles seemed like a bit of an overkill now, so I decided to go for a Bagel-ful! After perusing the myriad of ways they could be prepared I decided on the toaster.
When it came out it looked like a bagel tube, which sounds kind of gross, but I mean it as a complement, as in the dough toasted up nicely. I took a bite and the bagel part was actually very good, but the cream cheese filling left a little to be desired. It was cold, which was kind of cool (heh) since it had been toasted, but it had a weird almost chunky/ chalky texture and very little flavor. I thought maybe when it warmed up the flavor would come out, but it seemed like what little flavor there was lessened as it became room temperature.
Bagel-fuls come 4 to a pack. I am a notorious frozen food waster because after the initial opening, anything that stays frozen but open seems to taste like freezer burn after being open for, like, a few hours. To combat this Bagel-fuls are wrapped individually, which I like, but I still feel like if I manage to eat 1 or 2 more before I deem them inedible (and continue to store them safely in the back of my freezer) it will be a feat.
Now, which one of you is coming over to pry the nearly empty bag of Puff away from my increasingly meaty and cholesterol-filled hands?
posted by bunnycat! @ 5:41 PM
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2 Comments:
As a junk food addict, I know from sad experience that the worst part of a Puffs fit is not the slightly queasy feeling you are left with once the bag is empty. No, the worst part is the tell tale orange stains around your cuticles and on the pads of your fingers that doesn't wash off with soap. And the streaks of orange grease on the legs of your jeans from wiping your fingers off between swan dives into the Puffs bag. These things make it hard to stay dignified.
I had those bagel-fuls things before and I thought they were terrible!
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