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A New Fruit, A New Chocolate

11 Feb

I got given a new-to-me fruit today, I thiiiink it’s a papaya?

What are youuuuuu?

What are youuuuuu?

Luckily I was given instructions on what to do with it, I was told to peel it, cut it in half, scoop out all the black seeds, and enjoy. Sounds easy enough right?

And guess what? It really was easy lol

The poor fruit had an unfortunately hard ride home in my purse so there were some super soft spots but hey, it happens, shrug. I used a carrot peeler, for some reason I was expecting the skin to be thick like an orange but it wasn’t, it was thin and really easy to peel.

The flesh was firm on the outer parts, the parts that were right under the skin but the farther inside you go the softer the fruit. I didn’t handle it very gently so it kinda turned partially mushy by the time I put it in the bowl, hence the unattractive picture below…

not the prettiest looking food...

not the prettiest looking food…

I’m not sure if I like it or not lol At first I was all “hmm, ok, it’s alright” but the more I ate the less I enjoyed it. I also got a tummy ache out of the blue, not sure if it was from the fruit or not but the pain coinciding with the eating of the fruit makes me suspicious. I ate a little under half of it and then quit it. I’m tempted to chop it smaller and put it in oatmeal tomorrow for breakfast, maybe it’ll be better then…or maybe it’ll ruin the oatmeal? Oh the horrors! lol πŸ˜›

I also tried a new hot chocolate this evening and Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! πŸ˜€

My Uncle (who is all kinds of awesome!) sends me various goodies from England. He knows I am trying to lose weight, actually, I don’t know if he does know that…but he knows I like Weight Watcher products and that every other country in the freakin world has a wider variety of Weight Watcher foods than Canada. sigh. What’s with that??

Anyways!

He sends me these great hot chocolate packages and this evening I tried a new one, it is Caribbean Coconut and holy cannoli did it smell delish right from when the water hit the powder!

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It had a subtle coconut flavour, oddly enough the coconut smell was stronger than the taste but that’s ok cause the taste was still good. They have an orange chocolate that is da bomb! I only have one of those left so I am holding off on drinking it cause once it is gone it won’t be replaced soon and that is all kinds of sadness. πŸ˜› The packages are small, and I like my hot chocolate to be strong so I either use one package and only half a cup of hot water or two packages and a full cup of hot water. This evening I did two packages, to be honest I usually go the two packages route, I mean c’mon, who wants half a cup of hot chocolate? Not me!

Hodge Podge Dinner

9 Feb

SB and I sit beside each other at work and man, something was way wrong today. 😦 We both had stomach aches, felt like crap, had no appetite, were freezing…it was weird. We didn’t like it! Like anybody would, right? πŸ˜‰

So neither of us ate lunch, just weren’t interested in the food deal but by the time I got home I was wanting food so yah! Big dinner cause of no lunch! I didn’t want to eat anything too crazy though soΒ I made a bunch of random things and ate that. lol. Let’s see, I ended up with left over pancakes, cheese, brown rice, mixed veggies, one hot dog weiner, mashed yam…now, not all of those were eaten individually – that really would’ve been weird. lol. The rice, veggies and hot dog were put together in to my poor man’s stirfry, the cheese was put on top of the leftover pancakes…and well, the mashed yams were eaten as is, no need to mess with those. πŸ˜›

All in all it was a good, if odd dinner. πŸ™‚ My tummy liked it which is all that really matters, lol.

Today I ate:

29 grams Honey Bunches of Oats w/ Pecan Bunches = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 1 point

1 Activia yogurt w/ fibre = 2 points

30 grams light cheese = 2 points

3 pancakes = 3 points

1/2 cup mashed yams = 1.5 points

1 cup brown rice = 4 points

1 light hot dog weiner = 1 point

1 tbls creole dijon sauce = 1 point

mixed cooked veggies = 0 points

Total points eaten = 18.5 Not too shabby. πŸ™‚

So I’m undecided as to how to use my last 1.5 points – do I have a 1 point cup of hot chocolate and then stay 0.5 point under or should I eat a nibbly for 2 points and go half a point over, or eat a nibble that’ll leave me 0.5 under…really, my decision is between the hot chocolate or a nibbly…sigh…

Oh! That reminds me! The weight watchers hot chocolate my mom sent me in that package yesterday, turns out my uncle sent it to her and she passed it on to me…this matters cause that means it came all the way from England and sadly, can not be bought in Canada 😦 …I’m not sure if it is available in the US or not, shrug. I was s’posed to go to the states end of Feb for some shopping so I was gonna hit up a grocery store to stock up on weight watchers foods that aren’t available here (which is a lot!) but the trip has to be put off so it’ll beΒ  a while longer till I know if it’s available there or not. sigh.

It sucks that there are so many more weight watchers foods in the states then up here, there used to be more up here but I dunno, they went away. shrug. Kinda like the dinosaurs…just…gone… πŸ˜›