What's for breakfast/lunch/supper?

[CellarDweller]

Just a last note about the beans, and then I'll move on to another topic.

I looked up "foods that cause gas" and here's the list:

• dairy foods
  dried fruit
  fruit
  legumes (beans, pulses, lentils, etc.)
  high fiber foods (nuts, seeds, etc.)
  vegetables

How could anyone maintain their health while avoiding all these foods?

So, the new news is that I made something new yesterday: buffalo chicken. It's actually not spicy. It's tangy. You marinate the chicken in a sauce that can include butter and Frank's Red Hot (NOT!) buffalo sauce. Or you can make a slightly fancier sauce (which I did) by adding some honey, garlic, and lime juice. Also onion powder. I ate it hot with veggies for dinner and then had a salad the next day with lettuce, tomatoes, snap peas, avocado chunks, and parsley. This evening I'm putting it in a wrap. It's that good, I want to eat it for every meal!

I love buffalo chicken!   I've used a recipe online for buffalo chicken dip.  Not the healthiest, but everyone seems to really like it.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/68461/buffalo-chicken-dip/


The recipe calls for canned chicken (yuck) but when I make it, I use a fresh rotisserie chicken from the deli.

[Jeff Wrangler]

So, the new news is that I made something new yesterday: buffalo chicken. It's actually not spicy. It's tangy. You marinate the chicken in a sauce that can include butter and Frank's Red Hot (NOT!) buffalo sauce. Or you can make a slightly fancier sauce (which I did) by adding some honey, garlic, and lime juice. Also onion powder. I ate it hot with veggies for dinner and then had a salad the next day with lettuce, tomatoes, snap peas, avocado chunks, and parsley. This evening I'm putting it in a wrap. It's that good, I want to eat it for every meal!

That sounds good. How and how long do you cook it after the marinade?

[Front-Ranger]

It is recommended to put it in an air fryer at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. I don't have such a thing, so I put it in the oven. It came out great.

[Jeff Wrangler]

For supper this evening I had something that's really bad for you (way too much sodium) but was a kind of a throw-back to an earlier age:

I had Spaghetti-Os (with meatballs!). 

Some time ago I was in the $1.25 store, and I spied them on a shelf, and I thought, "What the heck. ..."   

[CellarDweller]

lmao!   I can't remember the last time I had those!

[Front-Ranger]

Another thing that's in those Spaghetti-Os besides salt is sugar. The tomato sauce is really sweet. 

[serious crayons]

I think once your system gets used to beans, the digestive issues diminish. But also when using dry beans be sure to soak them overnight.

I make beans fairly often and haven't had a problem. There used to be a product called Bean-O that I think came in the form of pills you could take to avoid gas issues. I don't remember ever having tried that, though.

I have an air fryer I bought impulsively for $75 from a guy who was using one to make food samples in a grocery store. I didn't use it for a long time but now I use it pretty often. It's a way to heat things without heating the whole oven. I use it for reheating breaded chicken, for example. And it's great for heating cold pizza, which gets gross in the microwave. I just now used it to heat leftover "veggie tots" (like tater tots except other veggies) for lunch.

[Jeff Wrangler]

There used to be a product called Bean-O that I think came in the form of pills you could take to avoid gas issues. I don't remember ever having tried that, though.

It's still around. I noticed it on the shelf at the CVS a few days ago when I was looking for generic Pepcid.

And it's great for heating cold pizza, which gets gross in the microwave.

I don't bother reheating it. I just eat it cold. 

[Jeff Wrangler]

Today for lunch I had something I haven't had in a very long time: a meatloaf sandwich.

I used to love cold meatloaf sandwiches. A few days ago I was in the butcher shop, and I noticed that in the cabinet where they keep the lunch meats, they had a meatloaf for slicing. They don't typically have this, so I had the clerk cut me a big, thick slice of that meatloaf, and today I used half of it to make a sandwich.

No joke, their meatloaf does taste like my mother's. The only real difference is that my mother always put diced carrots and diced onion in her meatloaf. The butcher shop meatloaf had no carrot or onion. It did, however, have a toping of catsup, which my mother also put on her meatloaf.