I started the fifth day of the year with one of my favorite breakfasts: the homemade eggwich. This consists of single fried egg, Morningstar sausage patty, slice of Horizon American cheese in an Orowheat Multigrain muffin. This is a relatively low calorie, filling and delicious breakfast.
Unfortunately one of the books I read last year suggested that Horizon's practices are hardly any better than factory dairy producers, but until I look deeper into that claim I'm going to believe it's at least marginally better. For the last few months I've been getting eggs from one of the managers where I work. She and her husband have taken to raising chickens, so I know they're being fed and treated well. When I can't get eggs from them I get them at the co-op who in turn gets them from a local farm called Vital Farms.
My new team had their first bi-weekly lunch of the new year today and I went along. I wanted enchiladas but I ordered crispy tacos in an effort to be a little healthier. I ordered beef rather than chicken or pork on the ground that they were probably all factory farmed and beef is generally less inhumanely treated than chicken and pork. This doesn't sound as persuasive as I type it, but that's what went through my head. In any case the tortillas were so soaked in oil I probably could've gone with the enchiladas and had just as healthy of a meal.
I was craving steak for dinner so I gave in. I didn't even bother coming up with a rationalization for it, and I have no reason to believe that the restaurant I went to, Texas Roadhouse, uses local, humanely raised or natural beef. I went with the 6 oz filet cooked medium rare. I skipped dessert so I wouldn't add insult to injury by being grossly unhealthy in addition to ethically insensitive. Granted those buttered rolls (I ate two) are like a dessert in themselves, and the egg crumbled on the salad was a pile of unnecessary fat and calories. I only ate a few of the peanuts, though. I often go through half of that bucket at those places.
My new team had their first bi-weekly lunch of the new year today and I went along. I wanted enchiladas but I ordered crispy tacos in an effort to be a little healthier. I ordered beef rather than chicken or pork on the ground that they were probably all factory farmed and beef is generally less inhumanely treated than chicken and pork. This doesn't sound as persuasive as I type it, but that's what went through my head. In any case the tortillas were so soaked in oil I probably could've gone with the enchiladas and had just as healthy of a meal.
I was craving steak for dinner so I gave in. I didn't even bother coming up with a rationalization for it, and I have no reason to believe that the restaurant I went to, Texas Roadhouse, uses local, humanely raised or natural beef. I went with the 6 oz filet cooked medium rare. I skipped dessert so I wouldn't add insult to injury by being grossly unhealthy in addition to ethically insensitive. Granted those buttered rolls (I ate two) are like a dessert in themselves, and the egg crumbled on the salad was a pile of unnecessary fat and calories. I only ate a few of the peanuts, though. I often go through half of that bucket at those places.
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