Whoa, wait … did someone try to eat our Taters?
Er, anyway. G’mornin’ and all that. The weekend is almost here again (wheee!) and I could already do with a good catch-up on the sleep thing. I’m not quite operating on a deficit, but I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep last night for reasons unknown. I hate when that happens; the pillows don’t feel as comfortable, you’re too hot or too cold, you’re itchy, and every little sound bothers you. Gah! I did eventually nod off though, probably around 2am, so I got about 4.5 hours in.
You know what’s odd? Besides Drew Carey hosting The Price Is Right, I mean. When you’ve never been on a serious diet before and you try and buckle down and stick to it the first time, you start thinking about eating things you may never have even considered before. Or I do, at least. For example, at the supermarket this morning, where I generally go every morning for a bit of snack food and my morning coffee, I was considering something I could get that was low calorie and still might be nice to eat. You know, something with a flavour that isn’t usually reserved for describing shipping supplies. I thought about what sort of things you usually hear about people eating when they’re trying to lose weight. The first thing I thought of was cottage cheese. (Having dismissed yogurt because I was already aware of that; it wasn’t what I was looking at this point.)
Now, the last time I tried cottage cheese – which, to be fair, was over 20 years ago – I seem to recall that it was rather bland, and had a texture that was almost, but not entirely unlike bits of condensed cream of mushroom soup before you add the water. Yet, in spite of the grossness of the simile, I found myself growing curious. It’s cheese, I thought to myself. It can’t be that low in calories. But I bought out a tub and looked at the nutrition label. Whoa! 88 calories per 100g for the fat-free stuff. That’s, like … low. But I hesitated. I mean, it’s cottage cheese. What do you do with it? Eat it plain? Dip celery in it? Stare at its milky-white lumpiness until you lose your appetite?
Ultimately I bought some lite spinach & feta cream cheese and some celery. The cream cheese is only 2 calories per gram – still really low for a cheese product, and as I’ve discovered it tastes quite good on celery. And celery … well, that’s about as close as you can get to a naturally occurring 0-calorie food. In fact, I am convinced that celery is nature’s cracker. It is of little worth on its own, but it makes a good vehicle for other, better foods.
I am still perversely intrigued by the cottage cheese, though. I just wish they sold containers smaller than 500ml. That’s a lot of cottage cheese.
Mika - It means that she is the source of that heinous sound. She is the one they hired to record it. And that means … no. I shouldn’t say any more. You’ll need some plausible deniability. Speaking of bananas, I love absurdist humour, and was even involved in writing some stories (scroll down to “DragonLord” – yes, that was my alias back then) in that vein. Well, not, strictly speaking, inside a vein, although veins – mine, mostly – were very indirectly involved. That was generally around the early-mid 90s. They’re not very good stories, but there they are anyway. You may choose to read or smoke them as needed depending on symptoms.
[h]Heff** - Wait. LOUNE screws in light bulbs? Surely that must be quite uncomfortable…
Argh.
