Care to Eat Making a difference one bite at a time.

Today’s football game was the first Texas Tech game I’ve seen this season.  There ended up being five of us alums watching the game at the bar and we all had our Texas Tech tshirts on.  Mine is almost 10 years old and is starting to fade.  Chris’ tshirt has almost faded completely.  I should probably go online and see if I can’t find a couple replacements.  The game was exciting and we won in overtime!  We were ranked #7 and there were some upsets today in the Big 12, so maybe our rankings will go up?  Next week we play Kansas University and two of our good friends went there, so it’ll be fun to watch the game next week with our friendly rivalry.

We didn’t get too crazy at the party last night (I had a mojito and 2 beers) and were home by midnight.  We woke up pretty early, but didn’t get out of bed until 9:30.  It felt good to just lay there and not have to get up to do anything.  But, we finally got up because we were hungry – so we made omelets.

I had defrosted some soy chorizo I bought a few weeks ago.  I was disappointed to find that when you take it out of the casing it just crumbles – it’s not solid like real chorizo sausage at all.  I mixed that with some onion, mushrooms, and red pepper for my omelet.

The chorizo tasted just okay.  It tasted just like overly seasoned Morningstar crumbles.  I won’t be getting these again.  Although, I did see yesterday at New Seasons a different brand of soy chorizo.  Maybe I will try that.

We headed to the Skybox bar in Sellwood to watch the game.  I decided when we got there that I didn’t want to drink and I’m proud to say that I didn’t!  I was a little bit “naughty” and ordered a Diet Pepsi and clam chowder for lunch.

They had a few vegetarian items on the menu, but it was either veggie burgers, salad, or fried stuff.  I really wanted the chowder so I went ahead and got it after the waitress assured me that it didn’t have bacon in it.  Thankfully, it was good – nothing is worse than bad clam chowder.  I would have been really disappointed to have ordered a non-vegetarian dish and not like it.  I also snacked on a couple of the hubby’s fries.

After coming home and watching a couple more football games, I had a snack.

I really wanted to try the dark chocolate PB I picked up at Target last week and a Jonagold apple was the perfect accompaniment.  The PB was pretty good, but not necessarily very chocolatey.

Continuing my lazy day, I didn’t feel like cooking dinner, so I decided on Trader Joe’s Indian food.  I had a saffron cashew rice dish, also from Target, that I thought would go well with the beans and lentils, so I heated that up too.

I love that Naan from Trader Joe’s.  It’s in the freezer section and sooo much better than the naan you can get in the bread section.  It’s pretty calorie dense so I don’t get it very often.  I’ve had this one last piece in the freezer for months, so it was due to be eaten.

As I was making dinner, Chris suggested going to Cold Stone.  He NEVER wants to go there because he doesn’t like getting the mix-ins and thinks the ice cream is too gummy.  It 50% sounded good to me, but knew if I went, that Erin would be proud of me!  Plus, I hadn’t been there in years, so I thought, what the hell.  I didn’t finish my dinner so that I would have room for ice cream and packaged the rest up to bring for lunch sometime this week.

I ordered a “like-it” (the smallest) sinless sweet cream (with Splenda – the horror!) and mixed in brownies and Heath bars.

I could only eat half of it before it became too much for me, so I brought it back home and stuck it in the freezer for another day.  Five years ago when I lived with my friend Bridget, we used to go to Cold Stone all the time.  I would order a chocolate dipped waffle bowl brownie sundae, with mix-ins and eat the WHOLE thing.  My, how things have changed – most definitely for the better!

It’s 9 p.m. and I’ve been watching football all day.  It’s exhausting!  I actually think I might head to bed.  I didn’t get in a run like I wanted, so I’ll have to do that tomorrow.  Chris is going on a photography day-trip with his Dad tomorrow to the Mt. St. Helens area, so I’ll have most of the day to myself.  Yea!