spontaneous chicken

So I'm pretty much in love with oatmeal. I have discovered the magic of brown sugar. Added a bit of that and some ground cinnamon to my Quaker Oats Instant Oatmeal apple + cinnamon flavor. Sooooo good. Of course, orange juice! This was my lunch.

Back at my internship today. I brought with me yoplait light rasberry cheesecake yogurt (woo 100 calories!) but I noticed the sell-by date was October 1st... and you're supposed to consume it within 7 days.. and today is the 12th. I *think* it was okay... but I'm iffy with yogurt on the best of days. Not a fan of jiggly food. So I went with the super delicious Kashi cherry dark chocolate granola bar. I am officially out of these, so I must go buy more.

Due to sudden series of random events, I found myself at Applebee's with the fam. On a whim my mom ordered a white peach sangria to share. After a few sips, we both decided that sangria was not our kind of drink. So I didn't have much of it, but it looked pretty. For the record, I also had a sip of that pepsi there. I've actually gotten to the point where soda just doesn't taste good to me anymore- which is a good thing!

Mozzarella sticks appetizer! I snagged one of these.

And I realized as I was getting this post together that I completely forgot to take a picture of my dinner! I got the chicken finger basket and subbed out the fries for mixed veggies. I ate all but one chicken tender and all of the broccoli and carrots from the veggies, and then ate a bunch of fries from my mom's chicken finger basket. Augh fried food. It stopped tasting good after a few bites. Applebee's had some yummy looking pasta dishes on their menu, but I personally feel their quality has been declining for several years now, and didn't want to eat not so good pasta and the sauces that go with it and rack up calories. Calories are only [sometimes] worth it if the food is amazing.

english muffins are tasty

Today we start out with an english muffin, apple butter, and orange juice. This was more of a brunch, at about 11am, before heading out to my internship. I hated english muffins as a kid, but now I think they are great. The apple butter I got at the local apple orchard that I talked about in my previous post. Soooo much apple in my life right now. And I love it.

Mid-afternoon snack at my internship. I'm normally not too terribly thrilled with granola bars, as they usually taste bland to me, but Kashi Dark Chocolate Cherry chewy granola is amaaaazing. I love it.

The woman I intern for was selling candy for a fundraiser for her son, so I bought Gobstoppers. I like hard candy because I don't down it as fast as I would chewy candy. I got really hungry near the end of my day, about 4pm, so I had a few. They're addicting...

Dinner was Chinese take-out. I resisted the temptation to get BBQ lo mein and went with 'Chicken Cashew Nut.' It has really tasty chicken, carrots, celery, snap peas, some kind of crunchy mystery vegetable, and of course the cashews. This was paired with some beef fried rice and white rice. I'm sure there was far too much sodium in this... and yes I know white rice is bad... but it's really good. And I got to use my Japanese dishes! Just because I could.

Augh, the brownie strikes again. Just one. (The others are in that container calling to me... I will resist! For today.)

I can't tell, is this a lot of food? I know it's not super healthy, but it's not super bad for you either. I believe in moderation.