Yes! About 4 days behind. I showed you all my eats throughout the day, but no dinners. So, I guess I have some blogging to do, huh?
But before I get to that, thank you all SO much for your kind comments about my past few days at work. I was a little nervous about writing a more emotional post about my job (and not food), but the comments that flooded after proved I had nothing to worry about. So thank you thank you thank you 🙂
Moving on. Guess what today is!?! Give up?
In exactly ONE YEAR, I will be off the market for good. That’s right peeps, next August 28th, I’ll be a married lady. Sorry gents! But more on that later.
Now back to the eats. Be forewarned, there were a lot of lazy meals requiring minimal cooking/effort in the kitchen.
Karen & Sisters BBQ Un-chicken (aka TVP)
I added it into (the below) salad – along with one seriously battered avocado, for a nice sweet and tangy summer BBQ meal.
Delightful enough to pretend the weather was summer-y.
Dessert was OMFG-worthy.
Chocolate Chip Chewy Organic Orgasm…ok, the last word in the label probably was meant to be organic, but I think my alteration is more accurate.
Vegan chocolate chip cookie cake with chocolate frosting.
Is your mouth watering yet? If not here comes another night’s dinner.
Gary Null’s veggie burger on Dave’s Killer Bread stuffed with hummus and spinach…plus bell peppers and carrots on the side (for the pretty color factor).
I may have had a few more slices of DKB dipped in hummus for dessert…and some baby carrots 🙂
As much as I hate the phrase “hump day,” the term couldn’t have applied more this week. So naturally I turned to frozen fare.
Food for Life is a brand I trust in terms of quality of ingredients, however, I have to say, the “chic-a-roos” fell a bit short in the flavor department.
I ran out of BBQ sauce after the first photog, but praise the Lord, we were well stocked, and Jack Daniel’s came to the rescue. This one had a KICK! I loved every HFCS loaded bite!
The problem I had with these was the texture. They didn’t taste like chick’n nuggets at all (which in and of itself isn’t a BAD thing, per se) but they were missing the crispy outer breading that I am used to (and happen to crave on occasion crappy Wednesdays). I can think of a few other brands of soy nuggets (such as Boca or Health is Wealth) that replicate the texture better. I couldn’t even differentiate the inside from the outside! They kinda tasted like bread balls…I didn’t get meat flavor or texture at ALL! It’s a good thing I was so down in the dumps I didn’t care one bit.
Solution = apply BBQ sauce LIBERALLY.
Clearly I still finished the entire box (which is 3.5 servings in case anyone was wondering). That and the pound of broccoli left me with an amazing fiber food baby.
And now I’m off to my anniversary dinner at Pure Food & Wine. 5 years!!
Um, that dessert is foodgasm-worthy!!!
Hummus, burgers, CAKE, avocado. Soo good, and making me hungry!
Ok, I’ve been lurking for a while, but I have de-lurk (haha) to ask – if that deeeelicious looking BBQ unchicken is wheat free, what on earth is in it?? It sure looks like seitan to me! Mmm, now all I want is vegan chinese food! The cake looks really good too, especially that frosting – yum! -Eve
its texturized vegetable protein – which is basically the same thing as seitan – its TASTY!
oh and thanks for both reading AND de-lurking 🙂
Mmm, mmm foodgasm dessert!
HELL YES for getting married in one year from today!! Counting down the days for you two.
thank goodness i’m not the only one who gets a fiber food belly lol.
aka every day fiber food belly. bah.
and keep up the good postings! i like hearing about other people’s work challenges, it keeps things in perspective.
Ooh! I’ve forgotten how tasty nuggets & BBQ is!
Happy Anniversary!! I know you’re dinner will be amazing if you’re going to Pure!
DKB + veggie burger + supah thick hummus layer = my heart and soul.
Elise!!! I am so sorry I’m an ass and just now caught up on your last post. You’re truly incredible for the work you do. You’re a much stronger woman than I am. I volunteered at a hospital for a month and felt like crying every time I left. Seriously, you are amazing.
Now onto lighter things, like yo eats! Um, that chickun sounds delicious. And the cake? Mmmm! That’s what the VegNews office is like erryday!
OMG YOU’RE GETTING MARRIED IN ONE YEAR!!! Holy shhh. I can’t wait for those pictures (OK, actually, I’m totally crashing the wedding–hope you’re fine with that).
Have a fabulous night and weekend!!
You know you have spent too much time in Scotland when you read “battered avocado” and have images of a deep fried avocado…
Nuggets + BBQ sauce = heaven…
So exciting that you will be MARRIED in a year! 😀 Hope you had a great night at Pure!
happy one-year-til-your-wedding-day! OMFG-worthy?!! stealing that. for reals. despite all the stress at work, you have been eating well!
About 3 yrs ago I got to the bottom of my food intolerances and realized that gluten, dairy, and soy all had to go. And they have. Not easy always, but they’re all former friends. I used to actually miss and crave soy nuggets. Good old Morningstar Farms. Full of junk and soy but so good. With some Jack Daniels honey mustard HFCS dippin’ sauce that I also used to savor….but now, as I look at your pics and your description of those nuggets, I don’t miss soy nuggets at all. I guess that’s a good thing, huh. Anyway, your dessert, foodgasmic for sure!
Congrats on getting married in 1 year!!!!!!!!
I LOVE Gary Null, Uptown Whole Foods is awesome:) Have a great time at your anniversary dinner!
happy 1 year to almost being mauied!!! SO exciting 🙂
um Gary’s Veggie burgs looks ENORMOUS in a totally awesome way. yum.
seems like after the week you had your Jack Daniel’s bbq sauce should have been another kind of Jack Daniels product..
mmm have fun at Pure Foods!!
Your dinners look great! Yum!
OMG–that chocolate chip cake looks freaking amazing! And the ingredients I could make out on the label sound healthy and SO good! Where did you find it? Was it at Whole Foods?
Courtney
Oh goodness!! It’s the final countdown…..(now I have Europe stuck in my head). I used to dominate chewy cookies back in the day – we’re talkin sleeves! Good thing I was training, right?!
I have Health is Wealth nugs sitting in my freezer – I need to test them out asap! I’m all about that breading!! Really though, everything is better with BBQ. Or hummus.
Oh I’ve been married for ten years, I’d love to be doing it all over! To the same guy, of course!
Haha, we celebrated our negative one year wedding anniversary too! Everyone thought we were nuts!
The chocolate chip frosted orgasm sounds amazing – and it seems like you deserved every bite of it too!
Serving sizes…pssht. What do they know? I ate an entire box of Annies White Cheddar Bunnies (7 servings) in two sittings. 🙂
Happy 1 year until your wedding anniversary 🙂
congrats!!! enjoy your dinna and yo man. only food babies at this point, however, right?! 😉
on the last post, i know how you feel about those special patients, and i think you did/do an amazing job. they come into our lives for a reason.
That veggie burger is HUGE! I love it. My hubby always eats two on one bun, but this would totally do the trick!
Ahh Happy Anniversary! One year so exciting! Hope you guys had an amazing dinner at Pure! Can’t wait to read about it!
Happy before-anniversary! 😉
Jack Daniel’s makes BBQ sauce???? (Yes, I live under a rock, thanks for asking. :p)
<3 <3
i got goosebumps thinking about next year for your wedding extravaganza…you are the first of theh 415 girls to tie the knot and I’m so so excited. ASUCLA Event Services, making love happen every labor crew shift…haha!
p.s. Kekona and Janine just got married…i saw via fb. =)
i saw that! (via FB too, of course) haha- stalkers!!
thanks for reading, and the support, and the sweet comment 🙂
yes and it is DAMN fine good to 🙂
it is a massive guy. i have no idea if they sell them anywhere else though? the health foods store i get them at makes them in house i think. ill let you know…
haha YES!! only food babies at this point. and thanks for the sweet comments re. my work, it means a lot to me.
yeah! a lot of people didnt really get it, but im ok with being a nerd. ive been over serving sizes the second i learned that an entire tub of hummus actually HAD serving sizes. LAME!
woot woot!!! lets see how good those paparazzi/stalker skills are since you know the date and general location…haha. now are you going to even BE in CA then though??? (how can you leave the bay before i get there!!! not fair)
hahhaa…NAST! deep fried avo? ew! come back!!
thx!
me and jack go WAYYYY back…and its best he stays that far away 😉
haha, thanks for the clarification. congrats on 10 years!!!
it was at gary nulls (the health store around the corner from me)…its the best, but now WF is calling to me since its ALSO so close! rough life, i know!
haha, OR hummus…true statement!