Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Yes to Sedaris; No to new KIND bar

It turns out that everyone was right... David Sedaris is quite a funny guy! I'm about 70 pages into Me Talk Pretty One Day (five short stories), and I'm really liking it! A total opposite of Protect and Defend. His writing is humorous, witty, sarcastic, and insightful... all things I love. And for some reason, he reminds me of my friend Gary a lot. (That's a compliment, Gar-Bear!)

Now, the not-so-great find. I tried my new Banana and Oatbran KIND bar today as my pre-workout snack. I think maybe the Walnut and Date flavor set the bar too high (no pun intended!), because this one was just, well, not so much. First of all, I didn't taste a trace of anything resembling banana or oatbran. All I tasted was sticky, sweet coconut. Now, I like coconut, so this didn't really bother me. I checked the nutrition facts to read the ingredients, and it certainly claimed to have banana and oatbran flavors in it (in fact, it listed dried bananas above coconut... I find that hard to believe!). I was also shocked to take a closer look at the label and see that my "healthy" nutrition bar had a whopping 6 grams of saturated fat. Yowza!!!! I didn't like it nearly enough to make it 30% of my daily dose of saturated fat. So needless to say, it won't be making it into my usual rotation of energy bars.

Plus, I noticed a typo on the packaging! In the ingredient list, this caught my eye: "....vitmains (B1, B2, Niacin, Folate)..." Vitmains!!! LOL. That cracked me up... but also kind of makes me a little wary of KIND's credentials. They need to hire some better proofreaders! :-D

Tonight is a random dinner concoction I made up a while ago that I absolutely love and hadn't had in a while:

DSCI0443 DSCI0444 It's Trader Joe's Meatless Meatballs (Turkey Meatballs also work very well), brown rice, spinach, and a plethora of spices- chopped onion pieces, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, chili powder, a dash of curry powder, and Trader Joe's Chile Pepper Sauce (a new find that I love love love!) all mixed together. Followed by a few pieces of pineapple and some cherries to help my mouth recover from all the delicious spicy goodness that was dinner.

Now I'm off to relax! Hope everyone had a good Wednesday! We're halfway through the work week- yay! :-)

2 comments:

Trying To Heal said...

wow, that meal looks so good..i haven't had meatballs of any sort in years...i need to look at trader joes for those meatless meatballs!

Anita said...

Melissa- Yes, I HIGHLY recommend these... they are absolutely delicious, have lots of protein, and taste just like real meatballs! I love them!