So happy, that I have to share.

So, I woke up from nap today and was absolutely starving.

I went to the kitchen to get something to eat and was so hungry that I picked up a piece of fried chicken that was in the fridge. I had also grabbed some soup. So i sit down with the chicken and soup and push the chicken aside and said, if you are really that hungry after your soup, then you can have the chicken. halfway done with the soup I throw the chicken away. 

I was so proud of myself.

Emptybox,

I am so proud of you!!!! You did a very brave thing throwing out your chicken.

Emptybox,

Now.  I have an idea.  Next time.  Instead of throwing out your chicken, take all the skin and breading off.  Cut the chicken into cubes.  You can use it for all kinds of things.  Sprinkle on a green salad.  On top of a baked potato, in a homemade chicken soup...some other low cal use.

I realize the symbolic beauty of throwing out your fried chicken and I applaud that.  But you can remake the food you have into something edible most of the time by thinning out your high calorie item with a bunch of low calorie items.

Example:  you have a cup of full calorie banana pudding.  You can stretch out that pudding by stirring it into a carton of low cal cool whip.   Don't know how low that takes it, but you can check it out yourself.

You can take the half a steak that you brought home from the restaurant last night (because we don't ever eat a 10 ounce steak anymore).  Cut it into pieces and add it to stirfry or with some taters for hash.  Or to a soup...

Just try taking your high cal goodies and adding them to low cal extras to spread the goodness to more than one meal or more than one dessert or more than one snack.

I like just a few toasted almonds in my salad or a few olives sliced thin....I'm making myself hungry, I never should have started.

Anyway. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE ME SMILING...MY BUTTONS WOULD BUST!!!

Aww, Thank you!

yeah, I definitely thought about taking the skin off, especially since it was the part that tempted me the most. But I figured that I would still be too tempted, so instead of risking eating the skin I would just throw it all away.

Then you did the right thing.  No money saving is worth eating something you don't need.

Way to go :)

kick ass!

Empty Box,

You go girl.  Better in the trash that on your hips!  Better yet, you exercised control and you were the boss of you!  You can do this, what a confidence builder.  I am all for re-purposing food, but sometimes we just gotta toss what is calling our name, without the guilt.  I do this sometimes and I hear my depression era mother in my ear chastising me for being wasteful, but if the odds are me or the trash....well, it would be trash on me, ya know.  Also you have to be really careful about how long you keep take-out food.  It spoils way quicker that what we make ourselves at home.  Most of what I read says a day or two at the most. 

Here is another one of the sayings going thru my head:

"that is a waste of food".

I tell myself "you are not a trashcan."  It is very hard to throw away the food left on my plate when I have decided I am satisfied.  But I just march right in the kitchen, scrape the food into the garbage disposal (before I can change my mind) and down it goes. I AM NOT a wastebin!!!