Dinner was a salad with beet dressing. I'm finally tiring of the big easy salad with olives and ready to play with dressings again. This salad had lettuce, arugula, half a red bell pepper, 1/3 cup peas and 1/3 cup corn. I'm not sure it needed the corn and peas. I tend to pick a favorite salad and stick with it for a while so I may go on a beet dressing rampage for a while. It is really really good. I wasn't hungry for dessert but was making smoothies for the next few days (freeze for later), so ate 1/2 banana, and a ripe pear that was calling to me. It was good. Oh, I snacked on a kiwi and a carrot and celery stalk while preparing.
Total calories: 1515. Protein 40 g (9%), carbs 306 g (74%), fat 29 g (17%).
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I wish I could get away with that. I would be in DEEP trouble (with my wife) if I didn't eat restaurant food. Also, we are getting invited to others' homes for dinner more. That is even more of a problem. I can be picky in a restaurant, but when someone cooks a special meal for me that really isn't right, I have to grin and bare it. Maybe, eat as little as possible.
yeah, it's harder when someone cooks for you. But even there I sometimes use the salt excuse because salt really bothers me now. and I offer to bring something I can eat. I tend to hang out with more casual people who know I'm weird. My partner is weird too in her own way so she lets me be weird in my way. It actually helps to have a reputation of weirdness. :)
can you bake a beet in the microwave? I want to make the beet dressing, but want it fast tomorrow night?
Lately, all the restaurants I've been to have been hugely disappointing. Only Ruby Tuesdays salad bar made the cut for a place I could return to.
And kneecap, I'm glad you're still posting. I grew up near Madison, but now live in Charlottesville VA.
pcleve
Hi Patti!
I've never made beets in the microwave but I don't see why not, since people cook potatoes in microwaves. Alternatively you can steam them. I meant to mention that. I will do that...
Charlottesville is very nice also. Yes, I find restaurants disappointing. Part of what I think about is that they are trying to make a profit, so do you think they are really going to make as high-quality food as you would at home?
thanks for your comments!
Barb,
My problem is that I'm weird, but none of the people I hang with are weird, in fact, they are all way too straight, conformists might be a better term. Bringing my own food to a dinner party at someone else's home would be a stretch for me. When we have "pot luck" affairs my wife makes something I will eat. But, when our host(ess) is cooking, I am really out of luck.
Send some of your weird friends to Atlanta.
Maybe over time your weirdness will rub off on your friends. But I understand what you are saying. The social situations are the hardest for me.
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