Day 12: Sneaky dairy!

That dairy is really sneaky.  I wasn't feeling much like making dinner tonight, nor was I up for going out to eat.  I popped over to the local awesome grocery store (New Seasons) and grabbed some salmon patties from their prepared section.  I thought, salmon sounds OK.  There will be a bit of egg to hold the fish and bread crumbs together, but nothing big.  It'll work. Who knew they used milk along with the egg to hold it all together?  Well, I did, once I got home and read the label.  I'll know to ask, next time. Not, of course, that it really mattered today.  We also got a risotto cake, which I know darned well is loaded with Parmesan  cheese. 

The funny thing is, I had an amazingly self-restrained lunch.  Brian wasn't feeling good and wanted a quesadilla, you know, essentially a grilled cheese sandwich on a tortilla. So I made one for him and one for his mom.  I made a side salad for his mom, and a full salad for me, all the while, NOT eating any of the cheese.  No cheese crumbs, no small slice, not even the super crunchy bits that stuck to the pan after I pulled the grilled items out.  Go Linda!  Instead, I had a salad with apples, cucumbers and cashews, with a slice of toast with peanut butter on it.  Quite yummy, thank you.

Then, along comes the risotto cake.  For those of you who know me, you'll know that I am not a mushroom fan.  However, risotto (my all time favorite food) completely overrides that.  These were mushroom risotto cakes.  I cleverly only bought two to share between three people so that I wouldn't get much dairy, but there the dairy was, nonetheless.  Ah well. I'll just have to learn to live with myself.  Hee hee!

A note about the salmon patties.  What were they thinking?  I'll not be buying those again.  They had all sorts of things in there, but very little salmon.  I'd say they were 50% bread crumbs, 5% egg and milk, 2% onions and peppers and maybe 43% salmon.  I'm more used to a 75%+ salmon to everything else ratio.  Bottom line, I suppose this will teach me to let someone else prepare my dinner if I want to have control over what I'm eating. 

Today was an excellent sugar day.  The banana bread I had for breakfast was the only sweet thing I ate, and there was no sugar in that. So, all in all, not a bad day, even if you account for the dairy that sneaked in because I was too lazy to make my own dinner.