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spiderdustDinner tonight is roast chicken flavored ramen noodle soup with vegetables (zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli, carrots) and cold fried chicken. It's just too hot to have the stove on for long or to eat anything too heavy. I've got leftover chili that we could eat, but I'll save that for another night.
I have a love/hate relationship with ramen. When I say ramen, I'm referring to those 5/$1 sodium-laden packages that you can get at the grocery store, usually the Oodles Of Noodles or Top Ramen brand. Every starving college student has eaten this stuff. One summer about 8 years ago, I had to live off of little else besides a couple of packages of ramen a day, what little food I was able to bring home from work (was working at BK at the time), egg salad sandwiches (made with 1 egg) on white bread (50 cents a loaf from the bread outlet) and 3/$1 boxes of mac & cheese. Sometimes I'd get lucky & a friend would buy me lunch or dinner, or I'd be able to afford a package of hot dogs or some ground turkey & I'd have a little more variety in my diet. But for the most part, I lived on ramen.
The advantage to this sort of diet is it's extremely cheap. The downside is it wreaks havoc on your health. I lost 30 lbs in 6 weeks and ended up in the hospital. I haven't been too fond of ramen since.
Yet when I see those little yellow signs advertising "10/$1", I still wind up getting a few. I don't know why, they just end up in the cart. I still can't eat them plain, and I can't eat them very often at all... but once in a while they're ok with some veggies added, and maybe with some meat thrown in, and a couple dashes of sesame oil.
Sometimes.
I have a love/hate relationship with ramen. When I say ramen, I'm referring to those 5/$1 sodium-laden packages that you can get at the grocery store, usually the Oodles Of Noodles or Top Ramen brand. Every starving college student has eaten this stuff. One summer about 8 years ago, I had to live off of little else besides a couple of packages of ramen a day, what little food I was able to bring home from work (was working at BK at the time), egg salad sandwiches (made with 1 egg) on white bread (50 cents a loaf from the bread outlet) and 3/$1 boxes of mac & cheese. Sometimes I'd get lucky & a friend would buy me lunch or dinner, or I'd be able to afford a package of hot dogs or some ground turkey & I'd have a little more variety in my diet. But for the most part, I lived on ramen.
The advantage to this sort of diet is it's extremely cheap. The downside is it wreaks havoc on your health. I lost 30 lbs in 6 weeks and ended up in the hospital. I haven't been too fond of ramen since.
Yet when I see those little yellow signs advertising "10/$1", I still wind up getting a few. I don't know why, they just end up in the cart. I still can't eat them plain, and I can't eat them very often at all... but once in a while they're ok with some veggies added, and maybe with some meat thrown in, and a couple dashes of sesame oil.
Sometimes.
