reese’s peanut butter cups
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I had a strong craving for these candies the other day and since the craving did not go away in 10 minutes (in fact, i waited about 3 hours), I decided to go get some. I went to CVS and beelined to the candy aisle to pick up a small bag of the mini cups. I looked at the back for nutrition info- each mini cup is about 42 calories. Ok, not bad. If you can eat one or two and call it a day. I started to walk to the cash register but then had second thoughts. Two mini cups for 80 calories? But isn’t one big (normal) sized cup around 100 calories? So 2.5 small cups makes up 1 big cup? Something didn’t seem right. But I bought the small ones anyway.
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take 2 on low carb tortillas
After accepting these weren’t going to taste like fresh tortillas from central market, the La Tortilla Factory low carb tortillas grew on me…
Throw on some honey mustard, spinach leaves, ham, wrap it up, and you’ve got yourself a snack with greens, protein, fiber up the wall, all under 100 calories.
I still think they’re kind of expensive but they seem to be holding up well in the fridge so as long as I don’t have to throw away half, they’re worth it.
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sun-dried tomatoes!
Current novelty item: sun-dried tomatoes.
I watched Alton Brown recommend these in his pasta episode, they came in the Evelyn’s Favorite Pasta dish at the Cheesecake Factory (thats TWO pasta dishes that aren’t smothered in cream sauce!!!), and they were layered in Patrick’s chicken & eggplant sandwich at Foodheads (which I highly recommend in case I never get around to writing about it).
After asking a few employees, I finally found them on a rack with prepackaged nut and dried fruit mixes. Kind of odd, but whatever, I was just pleased HEB had enough class to stock them. I was so excited about them I decided to make my own version of Evelyn’s Favorite (less pasta, less oil). I ate a few pieces while cutting them and then decided to just shove whole ones in my mouth. They are appealing, but there is a slight bitter taste if you put a whole one in your mouth without anything else.
Basically, everyone should use this item to spruce up an ordinary dish (either sub for normal tomatoes or keep both or put it in regardless of whether there were tomatoes to begin with).
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whole grain lean pockets
I will fall for just about anything with a “whole grain” label slapped on it. Most of the time its not any less in calorie or fat, I just figure it might keep me full for an extra…. 20 minutes? I think its more of the guilt factor when it comes to buying prepackaged crap and I’m trying to make myself feel better knowing its got some whole grains in it.
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chocolate skittles
Bought these out of sheer curiosity and they were only 50 cents so it wasn’t a great waste of my money. I knew I wasn’t really going to eat these anyway. Christie ate a few and Patrick had like 2. I had one brown one, not sure what flavor exactly because they all kind of look the same, and a yellow one that I have decided was the chocolate caramel flavor. Basically they’re glorified tootsie rolls. I’m not going to give this product much more thought. Buy them if you’re curious.
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starlite
Tonight’s dinner was courtesy of Patrick’s mom and a Restaurant.com coupon. Sorry, no pictures because I feel kind of weird taking pictures of food at a really nice restaurant. I’m kind of afraid the people there will think I’m some poor child who has never had a 40 dollar dinner before. Also because the lighting is often really poor and lastly, because most of the time I’m just too impatient to take out my camera; I just want to dig in.
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round rock donuts
My roommate Christie loves Round Rock donuts, enough to drive 40 minutes there and back random Sunday mornings to get fresh, warm donuts. She was kind and thoughtful enough to bring back a box and a bag of holes to share. Prior to that day, I don’t think I’ve ever had an RR (getting lazy here) donut. People rave about them all the time but I guess it never occurred to me that all that raving would warrant a drive many miles away. And for a donut, which is definitely a no-no to those of us who are carb sensitive.
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perrier
Ok… I hate to admit this, but I think my undying love for Fresca has died out. Maybe I just need a break. I think the fake sweetness has finally got to me. My replacement has been lime Perrier; a more pricey choice, but definitely worth it, thus far at least. You just can’t beat the crisp taste of a cold glass of this bubbly stuff. Plus it makes me feel prestigious and pretentious. =) And lately, I’ve been craving sweets and snacks less (for the first time in my life!) so maybe the whole thing about how sugar substitutes make you more hungry has some truth to it…
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low carb tortillas
I’ve read quite a few articles/blogs raving about the La Tortilla Factory low carb tortillas and finally decided to shell out the 4 dollars for a pack (10). The nutrition is absurdly great: 50 calories per tortilla, 8 grams of fiber! Eight grams is ridiculously high. Ok… but these 8 grams of fiber plus whatever else is never going to make it to my stomach at this rate because theres a big brick wall blocking it…
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curves granola bars
Once again, the HEB closest to school ran out of Kashi Cherry Dark Chocolate, and I was forced to find a substitute. (I went to Walmart tonight though and stocked up on Kashi.) I chose the Curves bar because a) I was curious/skeptical b) most of the other options I had either tried and felt meh about them or were too high in calories and c) I had a coupon. I use granola bars as part of a snack because I like eating, not something to tide me over for 3 hours.
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