Sunday, May 17, 2020

Meal Dilemma

Breakfast: 1 slaw dog + 1 “regular” dog with mustard, ketchup, onion.

Lunch: Caesar salad

Mid-afternoon snack: Hamburger bun, opened and toasted under the broiler and topped with sausage gravy. Next time, I’ll grill a slice of Spam to go with it. My taste buds are already excited.

Supper: I don’t know yet. I never know until suppertime. I have frozen spaghetti with meat sauce. I have frozen chicken fried rice. On the Healthy Choice website, the fried rice rates a solid 3 out of 5 from 79 reviews. That’s close to average, and average is as much as I dare hope for.

The Stouffer’s spaghetti is rated 4.5 from 184 reviews. That’s quite good, but it is, after all, just spaghetti.

This isn’t fine dining. It’s a frozen dinner from a frozen dinner factory. Yes, frozen dinners come from factories. A long time ago, I toured a frozen dinner factory—my neighbor was the Plant Manager. I sampled some of the fried chicken that went into the dinners and it was really good. But something happens in the freezing-and-reheating process. The food is just not as tasty, IMHO. Maybe I’m heating it wrong. Maybe I’m eating it wrong.


Hours pass. What did I end up eating for supper?

A peanut butter and banana sandwich. Meh.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don't knock it, there's a lot to be said for monkey food.
Cheers!
CD