Do you know what a sport pepper is? It’s a quintessential ingredient in a Chicago Style Hot dog - a pickled Serrano pepper, I’d say they have a medium heat. I found a jar in the grocery store the other day so I started to put them to use today, you’ll see them in both my lunch and dinner. I mention the sport pepper because I almost had a very bad experience at lunch today. I’m sitting at my desk, fork in hand, and one of the first bites of my lunch I choose to stab at a sport pepper with the fork. What I stab is filled with medium-hot pickled pepper juice and it squirts right in my eye. A lot of juice. Man, my eye was watering for a few minutes - not a good feeling. I’m just glad I hadn’t found a jar of pickled ghost peppers - I might not have survived.
Today was great, got in a second day in a row of strength training and I think I ate well. Tomorrow could be another thing entirely if I am not careful. I should be able to workout in the morning and have oatmeal again for breakfast, but then I’ll be at an all-day conference where the invite uses phrases like:
- Lunch will be served from 12:00pm until 1:30pm.
- Immediately following the keynote*, plan to attend the Cocktail Reception. The hosted reception features cocktails and alcohol-free beverages, as well as tasty hors d’ouvres!
* This conference is doing the keynote at the end, which is weird.
That does not bode well for me. Help me find the strength I need!
Anyway, first things first, let’s take a look at my meals for today:
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Breakfast was oatmeal with pomegranate seeds, a banana, 8 oz of spicy hot V8, and a yogurt. Lunch was a bento box with a chilled chicken breast (6oz pre-cooked weight) on top of a bed of herb greens, a small portion of pomegranate salad dressing, grapes, mandarin oranges, baby carrots, a yogurt and a selection of olives, pickles and the aforementioned sport peppers. Dinner was a chopped salad with herb greens, baby carrots, a tomato, cold peas, more sport peppers, 2 mini portobello mushrooms, a baby cucumber, half an orange bell pepper, half a small fennel bulb, salt, pepper and balsamic vinegar. My wife made a crockpot dish of chicken thighs with black bean salsa and I had a portion of about 4 oz of that, washed it down with a glass of skim milk. Small dish of strawberries for dessert and then later a small bunch of grapes for a snack.
I really think I ate well today, although I am guessing people will not like the olives, pickles and sport peppers I had with lunch. But I’ll tell you what, as soon as I truly get nit-picked like that rather than questioning whether I really needed that Large Potato Ole’ from Taco John’s, well then I know I’m doing fine.
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