Fun fact about me: I ate the same thing for breakfast my entire childhood and a good portion of my adulthood. Cheerios. I even had a unique technique of absentmindedly/furiously dunking the o's in the milk before I ate them. This became obvious when my friends poked fun at me at the dining hall in college. Now I am requesting that you share a fun fact about yourself in my comments. Come on - you can do it. It doesn't have to be food-centric, but that works!
Ah, the dining hall. Ah, college. Why did I take for granted walking into a building where food was already prepared for me? Where I could SIT DOWN to eat a meal AND enjoy pleasant conversation? So what if my lack of adventurous eating habits and my cheerio dunking issues were targeted?
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| Basement kitchen work area, where the breakfast sandwiches were about to be mass produced. |
Now that I am well aware of the benefits of a hearty breakfast, I try to encourage my offspring to ingest something decent for their first meal of the day. I am all about protein. Cheerios are great, but I push more than a bowl of cereal. So these breakfast sandwiches seemed like just the thing. According to the directions, these sandwiches could be stored in the freezer for up to 2 months. I chuckled at the thought of anything lasting in my freezer for two months.
Since being diagnosed with Celiac disease, I try to stretch out my available eats for as long as possible, so I don't run out of options too early. I don't know about you, but I dislike going to bed hungry. I can always resort to eating ice cream (not cookies and cream or anything crazy good like that, but still). Filling up on ice cream can get ugly really fast though. I start my day with gluten free oatmeal, and I typically have eggs late morning.
The thought of stockpiling an easy egg food creation in the freezer was enticing. I thought: hey, maybe I won't be scramblin' to whip up eggs on a busy morning. (get it!?)
Photos of my breakfast sandwich making ordeal to follow, but first a fun fact about Y-O-U! Come on - you promised.
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| Coach forgot to put outlets in the basement kitchen, so from this angle you can see the microwave set up on a toddler table in order to be plugged in. It works so much better when we don't blow a fuse down there. |
Since being diagnosed with Celiac disease, I try to stretch out my available eats for as long as possible, so I don't run out of options too early. I don't know about you, but I dislike going to bed hungry. I can always resort to eating ice cream (not cookies and cream or anything crazy good like that, but still). Filling up on ice cream can get ugly really fast though. I start my day with gluten free oatmeal, and I typically have eggs late morning.
The thought of stockpiling an easy egg food creation in the freezer was enticing. I thought: hey, maybe I won't be scramblin' to whip up eggs on a busy morning. (get it!?)
Photos of my breakfast sandwich making ordeal to follow, but first a fun fact about Y-O-U! Come on - you promised.
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Fun fact - I gained 20 pounds as a freshman thanks to the never ending supply of food in the dorm cafeteria. My parents, not wanting me to go hungry, purchased the meal plan that allowed me to eat unlimited amounts of food at every meal. Then, two years later when I got an apartment and had to start cooking for myself, I immediately dropped those twenty pounds! Unfortunately it doesn't work like that today! :)
Okay, so I will play along! And I will copy you and choose something about me that relates to food AND to college teasing! So, I hate tomatoes. HATE. But I love noodles and tomato sauce, as long as the sauce is totally smooth. But that didn't exist in college, and sometimes the only option was noodles and sauce or not eating. So I would get a bowl of noodles and a separate bowl of sauce and dunk my noodles in the sauce. You know, to get the sauce essence without the chunks. My friends made fun of me SO MUCH. Which is all to say, I can relate! :-)
My son pointed this out to me - apparently, when I sit down to a meal I never take a drink until I have finished. I was astonished, I'd never even noticed that I did that.
Oh yes, I remember that. I knew nothing about healthy eating/bad choices. I was overjoyed to see 2 donuts on a plate each morning in the dining hall. Score! Oh yeah, I packed on the pounds. As a senior, my friends busted out laughing when they watched me pile on the cheese on something I was eating. After they pointed out how fattening cheese is, I admitted that I had no idea.
I have only recently decided that I like tomatoes - but I chop them up very small in my salad. I still hate when a restuarant puts plum or cherry tomatoes in my salad - too big and explosive. Can't handle that in one bite. We could've sat together in college and provided lots of entertainment for people who eat 'normally.'
For Mother's Day once Coach made a video of the kids talking. It was super cute. The highlight was Tank dressed in my pink terry cloth robe, wearing my glasses, and imitating how I look when I eat my oatmeal. It was a riot. I had no idea that I had a little ritual about blowing on the bite on my spoon, etc. Um, and since we started dating, Coach hated how I drank from a glass. He said I slurped too much - so he would constanly say 'gravity!' Maybe we should eat in front of a mirror every once in awhile. :)
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