Yesterday was a day of excess. Overworking, overshopping, overeating. I ate good foods and stopped when I got full, just had a hard time filling up. Wish I had stopped SHOPPING when the cart got full -- but NO. . . Had to overdo that, too. Ended up getting home very late & had to eat another heavy dinner at 10 pm because I was so hungry, shaky, and tired. All due to failure to plan. (I had run out of fresh food, bored with bottom of the barrel pantry ingredients, sick of cabbage lentil soup, haven't been especially hungry, etc. etc.) Made the mistake of diving into a marathon house cleaning without eating anything and made myself sick and shaky. Ran to the grocery store at noon (ALMOST stopped at McDonald's first). Grabbed a spinach salad and a couple of cold hard boiled eggs from the premade salad section, pulled up to the outdoor furniture display and INHALED that food, but I wasn't satisfied -needed some hot, comforting, protein. Bought a hot rotisserie chicken with the intention of taking it outside to eat because of the stares I was getting for eating in the store. Then I found fried chicken tenders in the cooked deli food. I normally WILL NOT eat fried food out. However, I was desperate and the chicken was made from large fresh real chicken tenderloins, fried homestyle with the crust falling off, so it was easy to remove before eating. I enjoyed those (they were juicy and succulent with that great fried chicken smell) with a bowl of cut up fruit and started feeling human enough to finish shopping.
When I FINALLY got home I had to clean up the mess I had left when I dropped everything and ran to the store at noon. Got all that food carried into the house and ate one third of a med-small seedless watermelon. Still feeling like I needed protein, I started to scramble some eggs, but there was that rotisserie chicken still staring at me. There was no space for it in the little Coleman cooler, and I didn't want to put it in the ice chest with the steaks and raw seafood, so I was FORCED to eat it.
My little doggy and I enjoyed it, thank you very much! I did save the breasts to eat today, and left the skin & bones to simmer in the crock pot for broth. So, while I didn't go WHOLE hog, I did act like a little piggy and eat all the dark meat. I have to say, yesterday was a good day for grocery store chicken. It melted in my mouth.
I need to stop going without protein for so long! I don't enjoy eating meat every day like I used to, so it's a challenge working it in. I don't want it, and having it daily gets me all stopped up, which I detest. I would probably enjoy it made into meatloaf, & Mary's Shepherd Pie, but probably won't be having those kinds of dinners until I either have someone to share them with (who will enjoy them as much as I), or can afford someone to cook FOR ME! I don't like to turn on the oven, so unless I can outdoor roast it, grill it, or sauté it, I don't enjoy cooking it.
ANYway . . .
I will be making Wendy's Pina Colada Smoothie today for dessert after my Chimichurri lunch. I think I'll skip the black bean & corn salad because it's nothing special. I'll just eat the fresh grilled corn, which IS special. I'll enjoy the condiment on yesterday's chicken breasts and save the steak for later.
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The pictures are clip art I popped in for fun. Can you believe when I searched ClipArt for "caboose," the only one that popped up was PINK?!? 
