Why irritated? a) didn't see much chicken in my Chicken Margherita b) and thought there was intense overuse of red peppers. Upon closer examination turns out most of the red I saw is tomato so, cool. But still has red peppers which I find completely gratuitous. For one, I hate the red bell pepper. and Two, I just don't find that it adds much if anything so why bother?
On the chicken front, ok so there was a bit more than I initially though but I'm noticing a pattern here. Obviously LC has mandated you get no more than 5 chunks of chicken no matter what meal. This one was one of the bag ones so psychologically seems bigger and should therefore have at least a couple more chunks of chicken. Particularly when your meal is called "Chicken Something". Ok- here are some pics so you can see what I am talking about (RANT: god forbid this stupid Google+ nonsense ever actually "instantly" uploads my photos. I either have to sit here for 30 minutes reloading or just mail them to myself and attach which is a pain but vastly faster. Work on that Google instead of screwing around with trying to make a phone or a tablet. You've already lost that battle.)
Photo does not really do justice to all the red bits in my lunch. Anyway--here you can see about 3 big chunks of chicken. there were 2 more small ones hiding in the noodles, but come on. You can't give me more than 5 on occasion? Especially would have liked it today because I am really hungry. I went running last night and have been starving ever since. Now have to do my best not to go down to the deli in our building and freak out on the candy bars. Lucky for me I am lazy which is usually enough to stop me from getting up and going down there.
You can also see that this meal is in a steamer bag, not the nice little box with food tray. When I do eat these it's usually for dinner and not lunch. No real reason for it other than these seem to be more of a dinner-y thing to me b/c of the bag. I think the real reason is the bag meals require you to cook then pour into a bowl or plate. Work= no dishes. At home I have dishes. No sweat. Bag at lunch means I have to remember to BRING a dish with me. Happy to say I did manage that today and brought a storage container to use. However, as I sit here eating I also realize now I have to wash said container before I take it home. So bag is marginally more of a pain in the ass than the meals that come in the ready to eat tray. And there you have it.
The convenience factor I think has to affect the rating so instead of a 4 I will give it a 3.5 out of 5 microwaves. But I will also give it a RECOMMENDED
ok, will work out the alignment issues later. This is a work in progress and I don't have time to tinker with coding and format generally b/c I am on my lunch hour after all.
I know there are some people who keep a dish at work and why don't I just do that? a) I refuse to keep it in the kitchen b/c I don't want someone else to use it/touch it. b) would forget if I had it in my office c) you have not seen my office and, d) I don't use the steamer bags that much. Plus I would still have to wash my dish. Like I said, I'm lazy. My memory is also about the size of a kernel of corn. I recently left a mug soaking in the sink for 4 days while I was on a long weekend.
Big excitement tomorrow: I think I will bring in the LC Panini in my freezer. OOOooohhh.
PS-- this was 310 calories. If you have not noticed I try to keep my meals at 350 or less so I have room each day for other goodies and don't go over about 1350 calories a day (most days it's around 1200. "Hey, that's not very much. So why aren't you skinnier?" GOOD QUESTION).
a bientot. . . .
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