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Miller 64 if you're in the USA. It's not bad for a light beer but I'd rather have a single pint of a really great craft beer than two or three light beers most of the time.
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A spoon or tortilla chips. Otherwise, it gets scooped on top of tacos and fajitas or used as a sandwich spread. I don't eat tortilla chips that often so I'm perfectly fine with having good chips with my homemade guacamole.
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Work - It's a slow week for me and I've been getting my to-do list done before lunch without even rushing thru it. Which in turn makes the afternoons long and boring so I want to snack. I telecommute so it's not like I can go wander the halls at the office and talk to my co-workers. I'm one website away from cleaning out…
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My husband takes his lunch every day so a quarter of my freezer space is devoted to various sized ice packs! We've found that the hard plastic ones seem to keep frozen longer than the gel packs (even in south TX summer heat). Get a larger and well insulated cooler. He uses a soft-sided one that is designed to hold 9-12…
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We use the Nespresso Vertuoline machine. Our schedules are so different that a single serve machine works better for us. Hubby can brew his cup of coffee at 4:50am while he packs up his lunch box and heads out the door and I can brew my cup at 7 when I sit down and start working (I get up and workout before I have…
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Since you have a cooler, one of my husband's favorite lunches is a Kale & Feta salad. We'll make up a large bowl and it keeps pretty well for 3-4 days in the fridge depending on how fresh the kale was to start. Finely dice a shallot (1/2 a small red onion works too), add the juice of a large lemon, a little salt, and a lot…
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I'm not a big sandwich bread person, unless it's a really good specialty bread that totally makes the sandwich (looking at you New Orleans muffalatta bread). If you're looking for the crunch and salt combo, I'd substitute crackers for the bread and have mini open face cracker sandwiches. Think cheese and crackers with your…
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It's not essential or required but like others have said, they can be motivating. When my husband's small company was acquired by a much larger international company years ago, our insurance plans changed for the better and one of the available incentives to qualify for a lower premium was a million step challenge (company…
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Swimming or water aerobics? A former co-worker of mine has had a few back surgeries due to degenerative disc issues and if I remember right, her surgeon suggested swimming as an option.
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I used to make jalapeno jelly. One year, I didn't have any gloves and thought no big deal since most of the fine chopping was done in the blender anyway. All I had to manually do was a rough chop and some deseeding so it was more of a medium vs hot spice for my MIL. We were living in a house without a dishwasher at the…
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I'm in a similar situation so I completely understand where you're coming from! We moved about a 1 1/2 yrs ago from a major TX city (lived there for almost 15 years) to small town MD due to my hubby's job transfer. While I have some people here that I'm friendly with, I have no true friends here like I did in TX (I've…
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Forget about my suggestion of the second grill. The food allergies that my friends and family members have are not to the severity level of this child's and I was only trying to be helpful by giving an idea that I've seen other's implement and wasn't sure if the OP had thought about that. That said, I'm wondering how they…
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@elphie754 - that is why I suggested a second GRILL! Please reread my post in full - I mentioned to leave the packages sealed until they were outside and ready to put on the grill to cook and even gave a suggestion for disposing of the packaging so that way the smell would not be in the house.
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OP - do you have the space to add a second small grill and cooking utensils (dishwasher safe cutting board, tongs, spatula, and a knife/kitchen shears) which would be dedicated for fish and chicken only? If so, an option might be for you to purchase the individual quick frozen packages of fish. The fillets are usually…
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If the meats are still cold but just defrosted, find a fridge or cooler and ice ASAP! Then get a cooking/grilling session going and cook the ones that you can reheat nicely or eat cold on a salad (chicken breasts, pork roasts (shred and use for carnitas or bbq pork), ground meats (for future tacos, pizza toppings,…
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I'm in the opposite boat now - I telecommute full time and am associated with an office over 1,500 miles away. At this point, I'd LOVE to be able to go out to lunch with my co-workers! Before I moved, my husband worked and lived out of town for almost 9 years (construction management for large infrastructure projects…
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I don't have any restrictions other than my cherry allergy. I'm trying to focus more on portion control and choosing healthier options (like a small bowl of sliced strawberries with a little bit of chocolate syrup for a snack vs the ENTIRE full-size Lindt dark chocolate bar). I'm also trying to do some form of cardio…
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I've never had store bought ground turkey that tasted gamey; wild turkey yes, but not the typical Jennie-O or Butterball that you can buy in the US. Like others have said, it's usually pretty bland so I use it when I can add spices (tacos, spaghetti sauce, chili, etc). I have done a couple of turkey burgers but you need to…
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When you go in, just tell them what type of exercises you're planning to do and they can determine the best shoe options for you to try on.
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Specialty shoe stores are places like The Walking Company (great if your primary exercise will be walking or hiking) or Luke's Locker (I used them when I lived in Houston to get fitted for running shoes - the website shows a location in Austin) but they also have other athletic shoe options. godlikepoeteyes made an…
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I go early morning. We live in a small, tourist town along a bay so the boardwalk and paved walking trail is always crowded in the afternoon. Going that early, the only people that I see are other runners, walkers, and dog walkers. The only obstacles are the ducks, dog poo, and the occasional sunrise photographer but…
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I don't log garlic, spices and herbs, vitamins, or the occasional breath mint. I count tea (always unsweetened) as part of my water intake as some days I still struggle with getting enough liquids (besides coffee) and I can always tell the next day. Sometimes I forget to log the drizzle of olive oil used to saute veggies…
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Eggs, veggies (mostly frozen, some fresh like onions, peppers, and baby spinach), meats (bacon, crumbled sausage, ham, lox, etc), and assorted cheeses. Omelets were my go-to when my husband was working out of town and I was putting in long days at work during a major accounting software conversion. So versatile that yes, I…
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I know there are multiple entries - the ones I was seeing were without the shell so I was trying to get a rough estimate of how many ounces of meat were actually in a pound of shell-on mussels to get an idea of how many servings I would need to enter. Thanks! This place offers multiple ways of prep - butter & garlic,…
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I've got the same problem this morning but as others have said, it only appears to be on the home page of the PC version. The calorie info on my PC food diary matches up to what shows on the iphone app. However, I wish this was the burn for a 4 mile WALK (home page is showing 1500+ exercise calories) with no hills! I knew…
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Smoked oysters have a pretty aggressive smell to them (similar to sardines/herring) and they are a bit messy like sardines. When I was still in an office, my cubicle neighbor detested all fish and would pitch a "snide comment fit" if any of us opened anything fish related at our desks. Like we couldn't even eat homemade…
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I second the Triscuits. I always have at least one box of them in the pantry. Good for snacking by themselves, with cheese, crumbled on a salad, delivery vehicle for protein based salads, making mini pizzas (triscuit + pizza sauce + cheese + broiler), and so on.
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I find that sometimes I just need a cup of water or tea as I do my needlework in the evenings. This way I keep my hands busy and since I don't want to get the piece I'm working on dirty, I don't eat! If after 30-45 minutes I'm still hungry, then I'll have a small snack (try to keep it under 200 calories), wash my hands,…
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Instead of watching a movie or reading a book, do laps around the parking lot/rest stop. Look up some body weight exercises (squats, lunges, curls, flys, etc) that use dumbbells (I know cab storage space is tight but hopefully you can find a spot for two dumbbells) that you can do outside of the cab. Learn some basic yoga…
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Pack it in a cooler with an ice pack? A typical lunch sized cooler would be the perfect size for a pint of ice cream. Also depends on the weather conditions - South Texas in the summer and you'd have Ben & Jerry's soup in 45 minutes if you tried to take it somewhere without a cooler!
