Thank Goodness!

Primary Lunch Buddy is back in the office which means I can relinquish my duties as back up for now and return to less exciting, but hopefully healthier, eating.

Friday I bought some My Fit Meals to eat for dinner Fri. night but then Hubs came home a bit early so we went for a quick bite prior to picking up the little hellions and had this:

Very tasty burger from the Hubble and Hudson grill at the market near my house.  Cheese and ketchup only, medium rare, brioche bun.  My only real quibble is the burger was medium and not med rare.  For me med rare is the only way to go with a burger.  Disappointed it was overdone.  Burger meant the My Fit Meal was languishing in the fridge over the weekend and I had to eat it today before it went bad.  It's a bigger lunch than I would typically go for--the medium sized Tenderloin and Roasted Vegetable dinner comes in at 340 calories.  You can see it's a pretty big meal.

But it's less than inspiring.  I give it a "meh".  No seasoning at all save for some pepper.  I don't dig pepper-only preparation and the fit/diet meals seem to only be able to season with pepper.  Throw me a bone with some garlic maybe?  Anything would be good.  Squash was ok but, again, was just plain.  I dumped salt all over the whole thing before I ate it and was crying b/c I didn't have more salt packets in my desk.  Meat had little to no taste and would have greatly benefited from some A1 or HP sauce.  Today I am feeling the A1 a bit more.  A1 would have been ok with the squash too.  Not so sure I would want to mix HP with boiled squash.

Really don't have much more to say about this.  Thoroughly pedestrian.
 
2.5 on the microwave scale, Not Recommended unless you have to eat it before it goes bad.  I have to say- the Perfect Fit tenderloin meal is better than this, fewer calories (smaller portion) and cheaper too.  The My Fit Meals seem priced kind of high for the quality of the food to me but maybe I am just cheap (actually there is no maybe there.  I AM cheap).

While I'm thinking about it, some additional random thoughts.  On the prepared foods diet front I have done Fresh Diet, which was good but seemed like it was a lot b/c you had to pay for a month at a time.  So, ouch.  I think I did 2 months then stopped.  Less flexibility with meals and eating their stuff 3 times a day 5 days a week was killing me.  The delivery though was awesome.  Hard to argue with someone bringing food to your door.  By the way Fresh Diet--if you want your cooler bag back, call me.  Otherwise I'm gonna keep using it for car trips with my kids.

When I lived in DC I did the Diet-to-Go prepared foods where you order your menu for 3 days at a time and go pick it up at a local gym.  I did both the low carb and the vegetarian menus.  Best thing about these meals is they gave you decent dessert with most meals and you could pick what meals you wanted and how many days a week.  I did breakfast and dinner-usually eating the dinner as my lunch.  I think this was my favorite.  The food was really good.  Limited choices though on the vegetarian menu.  While Perfect Fit and My Fit may not be the best food ever they are easy to get now that they are at the grocery store.  Worst thing about My Fit Meals is the stupid person manning the counter that has to come out and pep talk you anytime you step within 10 feet of the cooler.  So far I have entertained this nonsense but my patience is wearing thin.  You can see that I know what I am doing when I'm looking at the meals.  I'm not asking you for help so please stop talking to me and just let me get my food and go.  I don't want your stupid weight loss vinegar cocktail and supplement bullshit.  I'm not signing up for anything.  Yes, I'm having a nice day.  Step off.  This last time I pretty obviously avoided talking to the guy and just walked off.  It can only go downhill from there.

Other nits that may or may not be worth mentioning.  I made pork sliders with pineapple chutney for dinner Sunday night.  Recipe is from the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival at WDW and you can find it here.  I couldn't make the brioche buns b/c my yeast was old so I wound up making rocks.  We subbed in Kings Hawaiian rolls which are just as good if not better.  I'll try for the brioche rolls another time.  Chutney came out great but stinky to cook.  Very pungent.  Little Dude complained about it all day in fact and then wouldn't try it at dinner.  We basically had to throw out every threat imaginable to get him to eat it and then listen to gagging and moaning from him about how awful it was.  Thanks, buddy.  Recipe was a slow cooker one.  Next time I think I'm taking it to the smoker.  Or half and half.  I think I'll also do more of a rub on it or brine it next time so the meat has more flavor.  The recipe just calls for salt and pepper which is fine but leaves you with some pretty plain pork.  If you don't make the rolls and just do chutney and pork it's a super easy meal.  And now Mama has about 1.5 pounds of pork leftover to eat this week and a lot of chutney.  Sigh.  I'd give this a 3.5 and recommend giving it a try.

Oh almost forgot!  I also made onion rings.  I put "yellow onion" on my shopping list which apparently was too ambiguous for Hubs so wound up with a bag of onions.  Not wanting to later throw out 5 onions I sliced up 2, did a milk soak and basic flour dusting with paprika, salt and pepper and fried 'em up.  Hubs had doubts but conceded they were good.