Strong Friday Finish

It was the end of the line for a lot of my featured players this week. Take a look at this afternoon's Last Supper:

• cantaloupe balls (finished the entire cantaloupe)
  
• turkey wrap (final whole wheat wrap, turkey cold cuts, low fat cheese, lettuce, mayo)
• cranberry oatmeal cookies (last of the batch)
• carrots (end of the purple ones)

I'm almost embarrassed to say how exciting it is for me to finish all the food I bought for lunches and dinners this week. It makes me feel like I'm being so economically efficient. Not to mention, I'm a bit redeemed and restored after the poor planning of my meatless lunch. This clean finish has got me inspired for next week's lunches. I intend to put all of the CSA bounty to use and keep all my meals interesting, efficient and cheap!

Silver Lining

Today was one of those no good, very bad days at work. Busy, busy, busy! The only thing that gave me the slightest bit of happiness was my delicious lunch. Here are the juicy details:

• baked potato with chopped spinach (sea salt on the side)
• chicken sausage and peppers in a whole wheat tortilla
• strawberries
• 2 mini oatmeal cranberry cookies

I was going to call this post "Fool Me Twice: Shame On Me" because I was thoroughly duped by pita bread's pocket performance yesterday. But today it failed miserably and I am now officially breaking up with pitas. They are liars and can't be trusted. I tried filling the other half of the pita I used yesterday with my sausage and peppers and it held up for maybe 20 seconds and then the minute I turned my back to pull the strawberries out of the fridge, that rat of a pita split on me! Split completely in half and let my luscious filling ooze right out. Thank heavens I had some awesome tortillas in the fridge.
I found these tortillas at Trader Joe's (the new one on 72nd & Broadway has already changed my life). They have 130 calories, 2.5 grams of fat, and a whopping 5 grams of fiber. I'm plagued with the knowledge that 25 grams of fiber a day is ideal. Jeez! I just realized that makes me seem like I've got some sort of potty issue. Nope, I just heard somewhere that you should eat at least 25 grams of fiber a day and I guess it stuck.

Oh! Speaking of stuff-I-heard-about-nutrition: is anyone watching Thintervention? I'm not a fanatic about it or anything, but I do enjoy watching any show that displays people slogging away at exercise as I am laying on my couch eating a Mr. Goodbar. Somehow makes me feel less guilty. Maybe even somewhat virtuous. Anyhoosiers, in the first episode Jackie made the fluffies throw away anything in their kitchen that had more than 5 grams of sugar. So, I guess that's the magic number for sugar. I'm not even going to pretend that I can accomplish that. I'm a real deal Sugar Addict. I try to mainly eat natural, whole foods but I do indulge in plenty of processed goodies (cough, Nutella), but now I'm going to be more aware of the 5 grams thing. God, I wonder how many grams of sugar are in a gin and tonic? I shudder to think.

Scrumdidlicious

Today's lunch hit the spot in a great way. I decided to give the pita pocket a try again and it work like gang busters. Here's the menu:

• andouille chicken sausage with grilled peppers, onions and spinach in a pita
• salad (spinach, romaine, red peppers)
  
• dressing (this stuff is so tasty)
• cantaloupe balls
• teeny tiny oatmeal cranberry cookies
  

We had the sausage and peppers for dinner last night and I was so tempted to gobble up the whole batch. Then I remembered that I could have it for lunch today! There is nothing that excites me more than the prospect of a good meal. Anyway, the oatmeal cookies weres my big project this weekend. I was bound and determined to make a desert that would fit into my little container. I also wanted to use up all of the unsweetened applesauce that was lurking in the back of the fridge. I rediscovered it last week during the beet massacre. This was the recipe I used but I altered it a little. Less sugar; butter instead of shortening. I'm sure it didn't make it any healthier, I just wanted to use what I had in the house. The key was using the teaspoon on my measuring spoon ring instead of the tablespoon. That made the cookies itty bitty. Now I must avoid the urge of crumbling them up and putting them in a bowl of rich and creamy vanilla ice cream...ugh, I'm going to go take a cold shower.