Liquid Cheese and Other Tales

We had our first frozen meals last night. I had the salmon with rice and vegetables. The salmon was a little dry. That's easily fixed. I always add a sprinkle of water to rice when I re-heat it so I just need to put a little moisture into the salmon. The taste was still good and I thought the rice and vegetables were yummy.

John had the chugwater chili. After an overly long debate on re-heating, it turned out mostly well. The instructions on the frozen meals say heat for 5-9 minutes. I had the hardest time convincing him that bread, shredded cheese and sour cream should definitely NOT be heated that long. The heating instructions on the fresh meals are very specific about removing items before heating. I always got a bit of a giggle out of that. Kind of like restaurants needing to label a coffee cup as hot. However, I see now that specific instructions are very helpful in preventing arguments with literal people. Sigh. His shredded cheese got a little liquified due to a bit too much heating but the bread and sour cream were salvaged.

I found my scale! So many boxes to unload. I was pretty happy, though. After two weeks of stress, sleeping on the floor for a week, and eating fast food or packaged convenience foods from the grocery store, I managed to lose more weight. I'm down to 185.0 now for a total of 24.4 pounds lost. I probably would have lost more if I'd been able to eat my DTG food what with all the exercise I've been getting. But I like being able to get a chicken mcnugget happy meal with apple slices and be satisfied. Part of what I've learned eating DTG is what a full stomach should actually feel like. Not bloated, not stuffed, not I've-got-to-get-out-of-these-pants-and-into-sweats feeling. Treats are fine in small amounts and sensible eating is a lifestyle.