Day 196 I Heart Avocados

Tonight I had the perfect summer dinner. Once again it is about 105 degrees and again, too hot to even think about turning on the stove or the oven. After work, I made a mad dash across a steaming parking lot to the icy cool grocery store. I admit, I stalled a little while shopping, not relishing the idea of going back out into the furnace of an Oklahoma afternoon. I decided in the air conditioned paradise of Reasor's grocery to have a guacamole and chips night, so that's what I did. I bought some really ripe avocados, an onion, and some chips. I mixed my guacamole with my leftover ghost chili salsa and I was in Mexiheaven. Good dinner all the way around.
 I don't know what my plans are tomorrow, aside from staying in an air conditioned building, but I hope to find something interesting to do. Perhaps it would be a good day to make the cold gazpacho! I may just sit in a bucket full of ice cubes for the rest of the day. Be cool, stay inside, and drink plenty of water America!
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Day 118 Torture Me With Nachos

Today, I was tortured by a staff lunch with co-workers and redeemed with my own masterful dinner made in memory of that rejected meal. My boss hates this challenge because it makes her feel guilty to eat in front of me, during staff events. Once again, I assured her that I don't care if others enjoy restaurant food in my presence, I'm just not going to join in. So, the decision was made to convene our meeting at the Mexican joint across the street from our office, I went along but of course did not order. Let me just say that it smelled divine and the warm chips were sitting just to my right, close enough to snatch one if I had wanted to. The tortillas, the cheese, the fajitas, the guacamole, made me want to abandon this stupid challenge and call it 117 days down and a success. I did not give in, instead, I decided to plan what I would make for dinner, as the others got their queso on. This evening, I made a big plate of nachos, with a cheese sauce I made myself, black beans, guacamole, and salsa, they were the best nachos ever and I didn't have to share with anyone. Best of all, I ate them, knowing that I didn't have to go back to work when I finished. Another day another lunch, I may make it through this century of a year.
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Day 102 Food Baby Rents Space In My Belly

Today, I had the best lunch and plenty of time to eat it, which is a really great combination. Even though I ate a really, really lot, it was all healthy stuff, I had broccoli and guacamole and an Amy's veggie burrito. Although Amy's is healthier and vegetarian than say Taco Bell, it's downfall was the price. 2.69 for one burrito. It was so good, but I'm a little ashamed of myself for not making another round of beans for a few cents really, and creating my own burritos again, because that's essentially what I ate anyway. I also had jello, I don't really even like jello and it is made from the gelatin in horse's hooves but It was just so red and shiny and refreshing, I had to have it. Oh, I almost forgot, I also finished scraping the icing off of my 100 day cake, which was uber satisfying and sugary, so sugary, I almost fell asleep at my desk from the sheer joy and insulin-ness of it all. OK, so it wasn't all healthy, I gotta do better, but I'm still on the wagon as far as my mission goes. This weekend, I'm going to make my brother a cheesecake, because he was accepted into the National Technical Honor society and I am super proud of him, he deserves something fabulous and cheesy!
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Day 97 KFC VS. Me

Tonight we celebrate a family's graduation from our services, which usually includes fast food. We buy the food, the family eats the food, and in the old days, I would eat as well, not so tonight. They have requested KFC vegetables and a pizza. Let me just say, that I LOVE KFC's side dishes. I love the mashed potatoes, I love the corn on the cob, the biscuits, the mac & cheese, love it all. Tonight, I will comfort myself with visions of grocery store excursions, which will take place later tonight. I'm dreaming of gallons of milk, loaves of bread, bags of lettuce....nope, not the same thing, perhaps I should attempt to re-create a KFC meal in my kitchen tonight. Yes, that's exactly what I plan to do. I will bake the biscuits and boil the corn, YES I will! Let us not forget the beans and the tater babies, if only I could re-create tater babies, but I think the chain has the corner market on those precious spears of potato love.
Dinner dreams aside, for lunch today, I made some fabulous guacamole, right here at my desk, complete with lime juice and everything, who needs a kitchen, when you have a fairly clean desk? I now have leftover limes, not sure what to do with those? Maybe some sort of beverage..hmmmm? Perhaps key lime pie is in my future? Who knows, I just know I'm eating well tonight!
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Day 87 Fakers Never Win

Today, I was tricked, scammed, bamboozled, and hoodwinked by the ol' dirty Warehouse market. I bought avocados this week at the grocery, for only .49 each, the reason for the cheap deal, was because they are nowhere near ripe. I'm waiting and I'm waiting for them to soften from rocks to maybe like a tennis ball, so no avocados for lunch, here's where ol' dirty market comes in. Around noon, I boogie on over to the market across the street for a little guacamole love, I find it in the produce section, a big container of green stuff. The guacamole was only 2.99 for like a 16oz. I should have seen this as a warning. I be-bop back to the office, happy with my cheap eats, sit down with my tortilla chips and dip into the impostor that is called guacamole to find.....green ranch dip, with a guacamole inspired costume. First of all. I don't even put ranch on my salads, I am just not a fan, now here it is impersonating my favorite food, it's just shameful! If you want to be a salad dressing, be a salad dressing, just don't dress up as a vegetable and sneak into my mouth.
That's all I have to say about that, I have to watch my avocados ripen now.
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Day 36 Monster Trucking To The Market

I have come down from the mountain and the world looks a mite different than it did a week ago. Thanks to global warming and the mayor's confusion over how to move snow from one place to another, there is still a lot of it and most of it is between me and the market. Today, my family drove 25 miles in their ginormous, snow slaying, pansy car squashing, monster truck to take me to the grocery store and once again I have enough food to keep myself kicking for another week. The shelves weren't fully stocked and there were limits on what one could buy, but I managed to get a few things, I'm looking forward to. Tonight, I'm making a favorite for myself; I really miss eating in my preferred Mexican restaurants during this year long challenge, so I'm making cheese enchiladas with guacamole and rice, YUM!  I'm hoping these avocados don't make me cry like the ones from last week, such a tragedy, they were moldy, when I cut them. I was so looking forward to them, I almost scraped the mold off, but my fear of Botulistic Shagalosous held me back and ration prevailed, no amount of lime was gonna freshen those precious, dead avocados. More snow is coming in the next few days and I am going to get creative with some beans, how creative you ask? Creative enough to blow your hair back, my friends, it's gonna be a windy week here on the plains! Also, this week, in honor of an old friend and a tragic break-up, I'm making dump cake, say so long to the past, eat some cake, and move on!
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