There are a few foods that never let me down - chocolate, just by virtue of its chocolate-ness, oatmeal crisp cookies from Ikea,Alaska maki from just about anywhere,lobster from Maine, homemade pesto, big slabs of mozzarella with tomatoes in the summer and my grandmother's cinnamon buns. Other, less gourmet items that never let me down include Coke (not diet, that is for whiners and people who don't know that aspartame is spelled c-a-n-c-e-r), any kind of fried potato item available, and whipped cream straight from the can.
Unfortunately, I did not eat even one of those things for lunch today.I did eat the glorious, chocolate-y, crispy, Ikea cookies yesterday when we went there to buy six of these:
- the cheapest and loveliest dining room chairs you ever did see. But now I'm getting off the subject.
What I did eat today (and I'm taking my sweet time getting to it, apparently) was this:
The whole-wheat version. Why does whole wheat pasta have to be SO BAD? We eat 100% whole wheat bread, muffins, I even bake with 100% whole wheat flour! I believe in whole grains very strongly, but why does the pasta have to suck? It's just so...whole. And so...wheaty. And so brown, which is not at all attractive with the white and creamy cheddar sauce. I love Annie's, so much in fact that I just close my eyes and avoid the fat content as I dump milk and butter and dehydrated cheese into my "petite shells". How can you not love 100% organic comfort food with real cheddar cheese and a name like petite shells?
Well, you can hate it if it's whole-wheat, that's for sure. Joshua and I eat very healthy (ok, we eat fast food when I haven't been grocery shopping, and that's unfortunately often). I even buy organic ketchup and peanut butter because I do firmly believe it's better for us and the environment. I check for trans fat and partially hydrogenated oils and I make our own salad dressing. Our spinach is organic, we hardly ever eat red meat (hello, cheddarburgers). I guess I cannot emphasize enough that we like healthy, whole foods, and it makes me very angry that I cannot jump on the whole wheat pasta bandwagon because it LOOKS like a fun time, and yet it is actually blech.
I am comforting myself with the fact that I only bought one box, it was on sale,and I brought home enough reliable food from the grocery store that I think I can whip up a slightly more satisfying dinner. Also, I have chocolate.
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I could have warned you about the whole wheat noodles! I tried them about 2 years ago, and experienced your pain. I even tried them more than once, different brands, just to see if the first one was just a bad batch. But, no. As far as noodles go, over-processed is the way to go.
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