Time to use your great big noodle,
And celebrate the famed cheese doodle!
Better than cheesecake or strudel,
The dusty, yummy puffed cheese doodle!
Got yourself a cockapoodle?
Those pups love crunching their cheese doodle!
What’s for lunch? Just oodles and oodles
Of that beloved snack — cheese doodles!
HAPPY NATIONAL CHEESE DOODLE DAY
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I had to settle for a vending machine lunch today.
The clock simply ran out.
Full disclosure: this is not a hardship for me. I like junk food a bit too much. But as I get older, I have a harder time justifying vending machine fare as a meal.
This is what I settled for today:
I figured Combos are basically cheese and crackers; that’s not a horrible lunch entree. And the banana — which I got at the convenience store in the morning — added another food group and made me feel like I got a semi-dessert.
I think I did pretty good. (Plus, I avoided the Pop Tarts that I really wanted.)
What do you consider an acceptable vending machine meal?
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” — Helen Keller
Yesterday, en route to Boston, I smelled it.
I hadn’t encountered the aroma since my early teens, but the moment it hit my nostrils, I knew –
Underwood Deviled Ham
Someone was eating it. And I was suddenly a child again, sitting at my mother’s kitchen table on a summer day, eating ham spread and crackers for lunch. I loved that stuff, back when processed foods were new and convenient, not the thing that was going to kill us all.
I like the logo, too. To this day, I could pick their brand out on the supermarket shelf when others from my childhood are long forgotten.
Good ol’ Underwood Deviled Ham.
I have to admit, I checked out FreshDirect.com — where I order the majority of my groceries — to see if they carry the stuff. Of course, they don’t. (It doesn’t exactly match their fresh food philosophy.)
But the kid in me is curious to see…
What the devil did I like about the stuff?
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A Pop-Tart and a multivitamin.
That was my breakfast every morning before elementary, junior high and high school. It was the compromise I reached with my mom because I really didn’t like to eat first thing in the morning.
I still don’t. My stomach doesn’t wake up until lunch.
My current compromise? A lactose-free chocolate protein drink — which I actually kinda like — because I still feel like I should eat something. (I respond well to guilt.)
Well, look out — the breakfast tables have turned! A recent study by researchers in Germany has revealed that eating the morning meal has no impact on the rest of your day except to add to the total number of calories consumed.
You heard me. Breakfast isn’t the ‘most important meal of the day’ like we’ve always been taught, especially if you are trying to watch your weight. When folks skipped breakfast in the study, their caloric intake for the remaining meals was unchanged.
So, if avoiding the morning meal currently works for you?
“Keep doing what you’re doing,” the researchers advise. And in this case, doing nothing is just dandy.
Take that, guilt.
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No beans about it
I’m watching 24 in 24 — Sandwich King Jeff Mauro’s new show on Food Network.
(It’s kinda like the $40 a Day series that Rachael Ray did way back when, but with less scratch.)
He’s in Cleveland in tonight’s episode, and he’s eating chili for lunch.
But he made a curious claim during the program.
He said chili is usually the “B-film of food.” It’s canned stuff. It goes on hot dogs. It’s not the star.
I love the Sandwich King, but I consider chili to be at the top of the soup chain. At the top of the stew chain. At the top of Rachael Ray’s ‘stoup’ chain (combo soup/stew).
Chili is king. And was king long before Jeff won Food Network Star.
Let’s show it a little respect.
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