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March 29, 2007
No More Grilled Chicken Please
If I see one more salad with grilled chicken, vinegar on the side, I am fairly sure I will scream.
I have at this point eaten way too many of those. It seems to be the only CR-friendly thing one can order in a restaurant in Scranton.
Sunday night: salad with grilled chicken.
Monday morning: eggwhite omlette at the hotel restaurant with mushrooms, green peppers, tomatoes, and onions. While I very carefully requested that the chef remove all oil and butter from the pan, the thing still seemed quite greasy to me. Tomato juice and a small bowl of fruit with that, and the obligatory coffee.
Monday morning snack while waiting for the hearing to finally take a break for lunch: megamuffin.
Monday lunch: we all went out with the nurses for lunch on the lunch break from the hearing. I got... drum roll please... a salad with grilled chicken! After I had negotiated with the waitress to remove the egg, blue cheese, and bacon from the Cobb salad, Edward joked that it was no longer a Cobb salad. Luke ordered the peel and eat shrimp for the table, and I asked everyone to please collect their shells and tails for my "cat." Luke and Edward knew what I meant by "cat," but the others actually thought i was talking about the tabby.
Monday evening we got out late, not until close to 7 pm, and I was so hungry that I ate one of my little dehydrated veggie and brewers yeast soup mixes DRY in the jury room! It was actually quite delicious that way.
Monday night dinner, as all dinners on the road, wasn't until nine pm, when we were finally done with calls for the night. I had a dish of grilled shrimp and the gazpachzo, which was quite excellent.
Tuesday morning: megamuffin. Wasn't feeling like trusting the eggwhite omlette in grease again.
Tuesday lunch: Subway Club salad.
Tuesday second lunch, with the nurses at the hotel lunch buffet: big salad from the salad bar with greens, peppers, tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, vinegar.
Tuesday dinner: salad with grilled chicken. I wanted gazpachzo but they didn't have it. I also, unfortunately, ate fries off of one of the nurse's plates and mashed potatotes off of Luke's plate. Exhaustion plus a second glass of pinot noir combined to lower my resistance.
Wednesday breakfast: hard boiled egg. Wasn't feeling like eating much, and didn't trust the omlette. A little extra saturated fat and cholesterol... ugh. But a fairly reliable 70 ish calories.
Wednesday lunch: Subway Club salad.
Wednesday on the way home: dehydrated soup mix dry in the car. Again.
Wednesday dinner: finally, finally, my very own salad with yogurt and salsa and flax oil. I have rarely been so happy to see kale.
Overall the trip wasn't as bad as it could have been, foodwise. I didn't have anything truly crazy. I did drink more wine than I should have... hard to tell how much as Jim was pouring most nights, and while I didn't drink nearly as much as I would have pre-CR, I definitely drank more than a glass per night. I even had a rum and diet Coke, a kinda diet Cuba Libre, on Tuesday night with our new staff member.
I didn't manage to work out. The nights went so late that I kept thinking I needed to get sleep, then I'd wake up at 5 anyway and just lie in bed trying to go back to sleep until the phone would invariably start ringing at 6. That's bad... I need my exercise.
I had a great time with my co-workers and the nurses. We're doing well in the hearing, and while we're afraid it's going to be much, much longer than it should be (the employer wants delay, so they're putting on a zillion witnesses) we're still confident we'll win the issue.
I had to run back to Philly last night because fires were erupting on the campaign we have going here, and Susan, my staff member assigned to that campaign, is on vacation! So this morning shortly after 6 am I was meeting nurses there to get flyers into the hospital.
Our annual convention starts this Sunday and I have to go write my speech... more soon.
Posted by april at March 29, 2007 2:54 PM
Comments
Sounds to me like you're doing really well with CRON on the road, April. It must be *so* hard. I'm proud of you for hanging in there no matter how tough it gets.
I've been eating my very own tortilla pizzas - thanks so much for introducing me to them. My 3-year-old watched me eat one this evening and asked me to make one for her sometime. I actually think she'll like it. Hurray for yummy CRON-friendly food.
Good luck with all your work. Don't forget to get some rest!
R
Posted by: Robin at March 29, 2007 6:03 PM
hi april,
how do you prepare your salad with yogurt(what kind?), salsa (again, what kind?) and flax oil?? (where do you get it?)
does it taste good? do you mix it all together or layer it???? i can't picture it being too appetizing or satisfying but you seem to derive much pleaseure in eating this dish!!
Posted by: ll at March 29, 2007 7:16 PM
Here Here! no more grilled Chicken!!
How do you make that tortilla pizza again? Low-carb tortilla, tomato sauce and then veggies? Any FF Cheese, or is that it? It sounds just great!
Welcome home..even if it is for fires!
Deborah
Posted by: Deborah at March 30, 2007 5:41 AM