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Most AM/PM spots in NY became 7-11s decades ago.
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$25 at Cook Unity
Two pounds of lasagna, fresh shredded Parmesan cheese and a dozen meatballs. Freezer bound.
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Chicken stir fry

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September 21st, 2024 at 1:05:18 AM permalink
Lunch was a cold can of ravioli. While not enjoyable, it was enough to sustain .
Dinner was two hot dogs and some Jolly Ranchers.
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September 21st, 2024 at 10:12:58 AM permalink
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Lunch was a cold can of ravioli. While not enjoyable, it was enough to sustain .
Dinner was two hot dogs and some Jolly Ranchers.
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It sounds like you are exploring the diet plan that I am on.
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September 21st, 2024 at 10:30:59 AM permalink
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Lunch was a cold can of ravioli. While not enjoyable, it was enough to sustain .
Dinner was two hot dogs and some Jolly Ranchers.
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It sounds like you are exploring the diet plan that I am on.
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Hot dogs and canned ravioli? Isn't that the diet plan that escaped convicts use while they're on the run?
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September 21st, 2024 at 10:52:07 AM permalink
American cheese and black beans grilled on a burrito. For about a buck, I can make four of these and serve four of my homeless neighbors. Black beans are good for you, but finding ways to hide them in my food eludes me. Maybe swallowed whole in yogurt.
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American cheese and black beans grilled on a burrito. For about a buck, I can make four of these and serve four of my homeless neighbors. Black beans are good for you, but finding ways to hide them in my food eludes me. Maybe swallowed whole in yogurt.
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I like black beans and rice. I usually slice up some sausage and add it to the rice.
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September 21st, 2024 at 11:10:56 AM permalink
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American cheese and black beans grilled on a burrito. For about a buck, I can make four of these and serve four of my homeless neighbors. Black beans are good for you, but finding ways to hide them in my food eludes me. Maybe swallowed whole in yogurt.
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I like black beans and rice. I usually slice up some sausage and add it to the rice.
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Black beans and rice, hot dogs and canned ravioli. You're moving up from what escaped convicts eat toward what the hobo gangs used to eat in the homeless camps during the Depression. Beans and rice gives you a complete protein and you do not need to add meat to it.
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September 21st, 2024 at 11:13:38 AM permalink
Tonite is raam noodle night. I've never had them, as I'm not much of a soup eater, and these weren't popular when I was a struggling student. I think I'll cut this experiment short.
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September 22nd, 2024 at 3:49:34 AM permalink
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Black beans and rice, hot dogs and canned ravioli. You're moving up from what escaped convicts eat toward what the hobo gangs used to eat in the homeless camps during the Depression. Beans and rice gives you a complete protein and you do not need to add meat to it.



I am cheap.

Last night the wife cooked so I had a "real" meal. Tuscan chicken over pasta.
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September 22nd, 2024 at 4:15:46 AM permalink
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American cheese and black beans grilled on a burrito. For about a buck, I can make four of these and serve four of my homeless neighbors. Black beans are good for you, but finding ways to hide them in my food eludes me. Maybe swallowed whole in yogurt.
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I like black beans and rice. I usually slice up some sausage and add it to the rice.
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Black beans and rice, hot dogs and canned ravioli. You're moving up from what escaped convicts eat toward what the hobo gangs used to eat in the homeless camps during the Depression. Beans and rice gives you a complete protein and you do not need to add meat to it.
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Beans and rice is a personal favorite.
The rice is easy to make, and with a rice cooker, it's almost playing the cooking game with a cheat code.
Adding a few spoonfuls of black beans, chili beans, baked beans, porkand beans, kidney beans, or whatever beans is easy.
Crown it with a fried egg and condiments. Behold the exquisite bachelor cuisine.

Otherwise... I've been getting black bean refried beans lately. A smear of that on a tortilla as the first part of a soft taco is a pretty easy way to "hide" them, not that I have to "open the hanger, and park the airplane" or anything.
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September 24th, 2024 at 9:24:31 AM permalink
Dinner last night. Yes, I added garlic salt because they don't contain enough sodium.

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September 24th, 2024 at 9:31:11 AM permalink
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Dinner last night. Yes, I added garlic salt because they don't contain enough sodium.


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No sauce?
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September 24th, 2024 at 9:34:52 AM permalink
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Dinner last night. Yes, I added garlic salt because they don't contain enough sodium.


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No sauce? Tomato sauce would balance off that meal.
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September 24th, 2024 at 9:40:37 AM permalink
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Dinner last night. Yes, I added garlic salt because they don't contain enough sodium.


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No sauce?
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No, they have sauce inside them.
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September 24th, 2024 at 6:54:37 PM permalink
Nothing terribly special for me tonight: roasted chicken thighs, lightly seasoned, with peas (first can of veggies I grabbed) and gravy. I prefer thighs over breasts-breasts dry out too quickly and I like savory.

I have some eggs that are going to expire tomorrow. So I'm going to cook them all today and freeze them in single serve meals so they'll keep. One can also freeze raw eggs, too. Never tried either so wish me luck!
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September 25th, 2024 at 9:28:05 AM permalink
I found a facebook page diet years ago. But the original author deleted his/her page. So now I’m at a delimma. If I post the diet with the source, the author probably wants it erased. If I post the diet without the source, I’d be plagerizing.
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September 25th, 2024 at 9:36:28 AM permalink
Scrambled eggs and mozzarella on a bakery roll.
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September 25th, 2024 at 9:39:53 AM permalink
Yesterday I had Pepperidge Farms Coconut cake for dinner.
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Wife is making cheddar onion broccoli soup. She doesn’t make many things, but this is great. I’ll have 3 or so bowls tonight, one for breakfast in the am, I have dinner plans tomorrow so not sure when I’ll finish it. It has two pounds of broccoli, thats a lot of soup.

For lunch I tried some German sounding white hot dogs instead of my usual Nathan’s. They weren’t bad, but I prefer Nathan’s.
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September 25th, 2024 at 2:37:22 PM permalink
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For lunch I tried some German sounding white hot dogs instead of my usual Nathan’s. They weren’t bad, but I prefer Nathan’s.



Nathan's are the only hot dogs that I buy anymore.
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September 25th, 2024 at 4:46:44 PM permalink
Nathan's Bigger than the Bun are outstanding, but Nathan's regular dogs have gotten mediocre, IMO.

Sonoran hot dogs seem to be sold everywhere in Tucson, even pizza places. These oversized dogs come with heapings of seemingly everything under the sun. Not for me.
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September 25th, 2024 at 6:12:00 PM permalink
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For lunch I tried some German sounding white hot dogs instead of my usual Nathan’s. They weren’t bad, but I prefer Nathan’s.



Nathan's are the only hot dogs that I buy anymore.
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The ingredients in a hot dog are basically the same ingredients in a can of cat food. I don't eat cat food. Decades ago when I had the cab company a customer I picked up on a regular basis owned a meat packing business and he invited me in once and showed me how they made hot dogs. I don't think I've eaten the hot dog since then. It was absolutely disgusting. Like the old saying goes, they will take you to the kitchen and show you how the sausage is made. Nobody wants to see that.
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September 26th, 2024 at 12:07:45 AM permalink
Club sandwich and cream of broccoli soup.

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September 26th, 2024 at 5:22:08 AM permalink
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These oversized dogs come with heapings of seemingly everything under the sun. Not for me.



Blasphemy!!! A hot dog should be eaten au natural with nothing on it,
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September 26th, 2024 at 6:29:31 AM permalink
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These oversized dogs come with heapings of seemingly everything under the sun. Not for me.



Blasphemy!!! A hot dog should be eaten au natural with nothing on it,
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Blasphemy!
A hot dog should be dragged through the garden.

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September 26th, 2024 at 7:46:01 AM permalink
A proper hot dog has mustard and a bun. Anything else is silly.
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September 26th, 2024 at 8:16:55 AM permalink
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A proper hot dog has mustard and a bun. Anything else is silly.
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Mustard just masks the taste of the hot dog. I could see putting it on poor quality hot dogs but not on a good one. Of course, I don't use condiments on any food.
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September 26th, 2024 at 8:43:00 AM permalink
Last night, I had a sausage lasagna from Cook Unity. I like meat lasagna, so I expected I'd like it, but it was too spicy. It reminded me more of a burrito than lasagna. The odd thing is none of the reviews mention it being spicy.
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September 26th, 2024 at 8:45:11 AM permalink
Casino Royale had great hotdogs.

The last time I had a certification class in Las Vegas, they were gone.
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September 26th, 2024 at 9:00:09 AM permalink
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Last night, I had a sausage lasagna from Cook Unity. I like meat lasagna, so I expected I'd like it, but it was too spicy. It reminded me more of a burrito than lasagna. The odd thing is none of the reviews mention it being spicy.
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A spicy lasagna sounds good to me. I put hot Italian sausage and pepperoni in mine..
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September 26th, 2024 at 9:03:58 AM permalink
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A proper hot dog has mustard and a bun. Anything else is silly.
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Mustard just masks the taste of the hot dog.
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That's rather the point isn't it. That's why condiments were invented.
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September 26th, 2024 at 9:04:31 AM permalink
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Last night, I had a sausage lasagna from Cook Unity. I like meat lasagna, so I expected I'd like it, but it was too spicy. It reminded me more of a burrito than lasagna. The odd thing is none of the reviews mention it being spicy.
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A spicy lasagna sounds good to me. I put hot Italian sausage and pepperoni in mine..
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I put eggplant and pepperoni in mine. I prefer sweet sausage to spicy, but this particular lasagna had more than spicy sausage.
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September 26th, 2024 at 9:30:47 AM permalink
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A proper hot dog has mustard and a bun. Anything else is silly.
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Mustard just masks the taste of the hot dog.
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That's rather the point isn't it. That's why condiments were invented.
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Why eat something that you need to mask the taste of? I never understood people putting dressing on salad and now people put ranch on everything. People putting sauces on chicken fingers confuses me too. I like the taste of chicken, why mask it? I will put seasonings on food like salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder but to me those don't mask the taste of the protein.
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September 26th, 2024 at 9:58:25 AM permalink
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A proper hot dog has mustard and a bun. Anything else is silly.
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Mustard just masks the taste of the hot dog.
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That's rather the point isn't it. That's why condiments were invented.
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Why eat something that you need to mask the taste of? I never understood people putting dressing on salad and now people put ranch on everything. People putting sauces on chicken fingers confuses me too. I like the taste of chicken, why mask it? I will put seasonings on food like salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder but to me those don't mask the taste of the protein.
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I see it differently.

Salad is the instrument I use to deliver ranch, because drinking ranch from the bottle is uncouth.
Chugging tartar sauce is frowned upon, but slather it all over fried shrimp and it becomes socially acceptable.
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September 26th, 2024 at 11:36:02 AM permalink
I often eat my salads without salad dressings. I want to taste the vegetables and toppings not the gooey or vinegary dressing.

I've learned to read the ingredients on the liquids in my fridge. Starting with fruit juices, bbq sauces, ketchups, mayo, salad dressings, yogurts, etc. Some are eye-opening and can change how you think about them.
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September 26th, 2024 at 11:54:44 AM permalink
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I often eat my salads without salad dressings. I want to taste the vegetables and toppings not the gooey or vinegary dressing.

I've learned to read the ingredients on the liquids in my fridge. Starting with fruit juices, bbq sauces, ketchups, mayo, salad dressings, yogurts, etc. Some are eye-opening and can change how you think about them.
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My Mom was on a diet for years that had one rule- don't eat anything where sugar is in the first five ingredients.
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Salmon salad sandwiches with Texas eggplant fries. These fries are so delicious and I keep forgetting to make them. I love eggplant I eat at least two a week.

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Meat Loaf sandwich with microwaved cauliflower

keep zapping the caul. until kind of hot, I was pleased that it heated all the way through

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Meat Loaf sandwich with microwaved cauliflower

keep zapping the caul. until kind of hot, I was pleased that it heated all the way through


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If you cut the stalk off and just heat the florets it will heat much faster.
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Chugging tartar sauce is frowned upon, but slather it all over fried shrimp and it becomes socially acceptable.
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So, today for lunch, I had a socially acceptable meal...
Fried shrimp was delightfully crispy, which is sadly often not the case.
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September 29th, 2024 at 12:40:12 PM permalink
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Chugging tartar sauce is frowned upon, but slather it all over fried shrimp and it becomes socially acceptable.
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So, today for lunch, I had a socially acceptable meal...
Fried shrimp was delightfully crispy, which is sadly often not the case.
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Oh my God an actual picture. How hard was that..
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This is what Drich had for lunch.

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Oh my God an actual picture. How hard was that..
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I'm not young and hip enough to think that the primary purpose of food is to be photographed and posted online.
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September 29th, 2024 at 2:36:46 PM permalink
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This is what Drich had for lunch.


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I have only eaten cat in Chinese restaurants.
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