Day Seventeen: The Crunchy Things Ruined My Dinner

Do you see the cheese?

By Saturday, my stomach still did not feel well most of the day, which meant I didn't eat everything outlined by the Nutrisystem plan. I was hungry by lunch and decided to try the most appetizing item I had left -- the Nutrisystem Roasted Vegetable Pizza. Husband warmed it up for me, and when he took the pizza out of the wrapper he said there was little cheese on it. When he took it out of the microwave, he said "The cheese is invisible." That's never a good sign.

However, the pizza tasted great even without much cheese. I was very happy with the crust's crispness and taste. The vegetables were good and not soggy. I appreciated the zucchini. This pizza was a win for me, although Husband wants to trade his for one of my lunches (he's not an onion fan). I had a small amount of seaweed salad, and that was all I could stand to eat for lunch.

My snack was an apple with PB2, which still sounded good to me.

Dinner was tricky because a lot of the meals I had left contained beans, and that did not sound good to me at the time. I decided to try the Nutrisystem Sweet & Sour Chicken with Noodles. This was not a good decision.

Beware the water chestnuts!

The taste of the sauce was fine and the chunks of chicken were great, but there were too many crunchy things in it (crunchy things for me means water chestnuts). I appreciated the pineapples, but the noodles were about an inch long each, so it was hard to pick them out with my fork and avoid the water chestnuts. I have always detested this vegetable, and I wouldn't eat them whenever my mother made a vegetable medley, which I dreaded because of the crunchy things, carrots, and Lima beans. These four vegetables and I are still not on speaking terms. After picking out the tiny pieces of water chestnuts failed (there were just too many of them), I ate all the pineapple and chicken and gave up.

We had cabbage as one of our side vegetables. The appearance of the cabbage dish didn't leave him wanting more, so I made Brussels sprouts for his second veggie. And guess what? He liked them!


I'm very glad I had only ordered one sweet and sour chicken dinner because I did not want to face another plate of that food. Husband, however, also has one of these meals and hasn't tried it yet. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks of it if I haven't scared him away from it now. And no, I won't be trading meals with him this time.