Day 3

With 14 foods and 43 meals, some days are vitual repeats. Day 3 was mostly so and as follows.

NOTE: I use the word diet a lot more often in this post than I would like. Those of you used to hearing me speak know that it is not a word I use often, since like many words in American Colliquial English it has accquired a very specific meaning normally reserved for the construction “reducing diet.”

Oddly enough, that’s what I’m on. But “diet” in and of itself means meal plan or food intake. nothing more, nothing less. For the last 18 or so years, I was on a definite “increasing diet.” Also known as “fat ass is going to kill himself with this food, or will soon start regulating his blood sugar with pig insulin instead of his pancreas diet.”

Lean Ground Turkey

(7:15 AM)

I’m very much enjoying the simplicity of the turkey patty for this meal. What I’m not enjoying is the higher fat content of that turkey next week’s turkey will be the good kind, and I’ll form it into patties myself.

Chicken [and] Pasta

(11:30 AM)

Two great tastes that taste great together. Although to be honest, I don’t like the chicken I picked up either. The QFC has inferior poultry to Safeway, in my opinion. But it has a better selection of flavored Sparkling water and Wine, as well as a full organic grocery and accessible restrooms. It’s a hell of a tradeoff.

Plus, I can walk home more easily from the former. The Safeway makes it very tempting to ride the bus. I am more or less resigned to shopping in two different stores, but it galls my OCD mindset to waste effort like that. If I drove a car, it would not be an issue.

Pastrami Sandwich

You may make a Pastrami Sandwich. You may add any of the condiments shown in the diet rules. You may also eat as much Pastrami as you want — but only 2 pieces of bread may be eaten with this meal. The bread should be either “oat” or “bran” bread (bran muffins are not allowed). Big Deli Sandwiches are not allowed, the bread must be normal-sized sliced bread.

These condiments are allowed with ANY meal
Other condiments are allowed ONLY if they ahve no calories

  • Ketchup / Mustard
  • Barbeque sauce
  • Salsa
  • Salt (or) Seasoning Salt
  • Pepper (or) Lemon Pepper
  • Lemon Juice
  • Non Fat Mayonnaise

(ed. Seriously. Try it, you’ll like it)

  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Molly McButter

    • (5:00 PM)

    This is the meal I look forward to on every menu I generate. Sometimes it comes up THREE TIMES.

    What I do not look forward to is preparing it at home. Although cheaper, faster, and more convenient to me (especially this week), it also requires the purchase of BREAD. I love bread. It is tasty, and I am more or less addicted to one of Mankind’s first processed foods. but it takes up space, and it molds, either in or out of the refridgerator. Also, when I put a loaf of bread in the cooler, it goes stale. When I leave it on the counter, it does not, although it molds up within 6 days. I blame the moisture guarding Baking Soda.

    So I bit the bullet and grabbed tortillas instead. I love tortillas more than I love bread, and have on many occasions eaten them as a stand-alone meal. But tortillas are relatively high in fat. The kicker is to find the lowest calorie, carb, and fat flatbreads possible, in the smallest package available. Best I could come up with was 80 cals (30 from fat), 3 net carbs per, package of 8.

    So I had two. Possibly not the best solution, since a tortilla is not “standard sliced bread.” but that 160/60 two tortilla combo is less than the normal 280/80 spread you’d get from two slices of so-called “wheat” breads.

    The diet has this to say on the topic (I have a separate, and much more involved rant about baked goods in the United States):

    The MYTH of Wheat Bread

    Everybody thinks that eating “WHEAT” bread is somehow more “healthy” or non-fattening.

    Similarly, people think that “wheat” pancakes are a “healthy” form of pancakes which are non-fattening. This type of absurd thinking is what helps to keep people overweight.

    Fact #1: Wheat bread is just as unhealthy as normal white bread.
    They both have a high glycemic index rating (carb rating) of approximately 100 (which is unhealthy).

    If you are looking for a healthy form of bread then you should buy “Oat Bran Bread,” It is a very helthy form of bread and is much healthier than regular wheat bread.

    *ALso, other foods made with Wheat flour (such as wheat pancakes) are no more healthy than eating the same foods made with white flour. It’s just a myth that wheat flour foods are healthier.

    A fascinating and self reinforcing bit of rhetoric. but one with a lot of truth. It is estimated that most americans have some form of Gluten intolerance (my mother and I have this, for example). Drinking a 12 pack of beer every day for most of the last 15 years probably didn’t help me much on that score. Especially not when I was putting it in on top of 2-4 cheeseburgers, I’ll wager. But the occasional slice of bread or bowl of pasta has predictable effects on my body.

    P.S. I freaking love bread. I also love ice cream, and I should not have that either.

    Go Figure.

    I’m frankly amazed that I am not a Diabetetic by now. I’ve done more than enough to this body to warrant it.

    But I digress. I had the tortillas, and they were good.

    Tuna Salad

    (10:00 PM)
    I am so amazingly happy that one of my favorite foods in the world is a staple of my daily diet. I love Tuna. It is the food that could sustain me for the rest of my life, and I do not limit this distinction to the stuff that comes fromt eh can. If presented with a selction fo Fish, I will Choose tuna over all others, including non-fish arthropods such as lobster (garbagemen of the sea, avoid them if you can. Becuase they are very, very tasty garbagemen) Unless, of course, Shark is available. Loves me the shark. That will show those uppity, finished with their evolution bastards.

    So the fact that I eat a can of tune nearly every day is more or less grlee making. It also means that it is a meal I typically put off until an hour or so before bed, since I cannot trust that non-fat mayonnaise will be available when I am out and about.

    I shall die a slow, painful death throguh mercury poisoning, I know. But it will be a tasty death, and many, many years from now. By then, we’ll be able to flush both my bones and the sea of this deadly byproduct of our horribly compromising industrial base.