Rabbit Food

[caddyman]

So for lunch I ate a tuna and sweet corn sandwich, followed by a few sticks of carrot and houmous. It was all tasty enough and reasonably good for me. Trouble is, of course, that here I am an hour later sizing up my desk, wondering what it would taste like.

I still have a quantity of carrot sticks (or batons as the modern parlance would have it), but on their own, they taste only of raw carrot. I shall have to get rather hungrier before I assay one of those without a dip of some sort. How do you veggies do it? Vegetables are essentially boring; I mean mind-numbingly boring and the dips that make them palatable are overwhelmingly bad for you. Once again the flavour is in the bad stuff.

All this effort in trying to shrink into a jacket. Growing out of it was no hardship at all.

In other news, the Red Arrows flew past a while ago. Heard them, but didn’t see them. Apparently there is a do at Buck House for the 150th anniversary of one or more of the various cadet forces. I assume the RAF Get to do the work because they are the youngest and not around when it was all decided. Sounds a bit Tom Brown to me, but you know what the Forces are like with their jealously guarded seniority and such.

Still not tempted by these carrots…

Comments

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

Hide the carrots in a fish butty, I'm sure they'll taste just fine then.*




*Brought to you by Devil on your Shoulder Advice Services.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

"How do you veggies do it? Vegetables are essentially boring; I mean mind-numbingly boring"

Nonsense, I'm not a veggie but since we've cut down our meat consumption I now know I could be without completely loosing it. If your veg are boring then don't eat bloody carrot sticks, do something interesting. Seasoning (aside from salt) isn't bad for you.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

If I don't eat boring veg, there is none left.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

You're not going to like this, but I was sat here in a similar 'sizing up desk' state (although without the carrot sticks) while waiting for 4pm to come round (incidentally, Huzzah!) and then in the last hour and a half two seperate people have turned up with cake. Nom.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Rotter.

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

You need better carrots. Most of the supermarket ones are tasteless and watery. Home grown ones are way better, and now you have a lovely large garden... :)

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

"How do you veggies do it? Vegetables are essentially boring; I mean mind-numbingly boring"

Hear hear. Give that chap a carr--

Oo-er.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

After a couple of weeks or so of eating less your desk will start to look less tastey. Honest.

How about eating Venison instead, which is also low fat? ;)

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Steam the carrots or other veggies, toss them with a teaspoon or two of olive oil plus garlic, lemon juice, and the fresh herbs of your choice (my cauliflower and bell peppers have dill today, yum). Alternately, make a nice veggie soup (with beef or chicken stock is okay, calorie-wise) and microwave a bowlful at work instead of eating raw carrots.

I like the Moosewood Cookbook for pretty good veggie and soup recipes, though you have to adjust some of them to make them low-calorie. Also Betty Crocker's Indian Home Cooking (no, really) for veggie recipes (though again you have to dial down the fat on a lot of those).

Bearing in mind that after 2 months of Weight Watchers I suddenly got tired of counting points and ate a lot of July 4th pie and whatnot over the weekend. I don't think dieting is really for me over the long haul, though I do hope I continue eating a lot of veggies as a daily thing no matter what happens ...

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Rabbit food can actually be very tasty and nutritious.

For instance rather than just eating a few carrot stocks prepare a couple of tupperwear bowls of salad to graze on during the day.

Iceberg lettuce
Cherry Tomatoes
Red onion
Celery
Grated carrot
A few olives
A handful of sliced pepper

For added oomph:

Mix a dash of olive oil, red wine vinegar and course grain mustard together and drizzle (in moderation only though).

Sprinkle ‘bacon bits’ (those bacon flavour bread bits you get in Pizza hut – in moderation though)

Or simply drizzle some lemon juice over the salad.


All very toothsome I assure you.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I was expecting this to be -

Rabbit food can actually be very tasty and nutritious, first skin the rabbit...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Frankly, there was an evens chance that he might have written something along those lines.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the bacon bits.