Just in case it hasn’t been mentioned here before – I’m not the biggest contributor to meals in my house. I’ve got three kids – two of them teenage boys with bottomless pits for stomachs. I’ve been known to set off the smoke alarms frequently with my cooking and serve some less than stellar new-fangled concoctions that will never be close to winning any awards!
In case you haven’t guessed – that leaves the hubster to do A LOT of the cooking. He does enjoy the stress relief of being in the kitchen chopping and dicing away his work frustrations – good thing! And if truth be told, it makes for a happier house when the occupants are well fed. Bobby Flay look out – cause my hubby has been known to invent some interesting dishes that have been well recieved by three cranky eaters!
That said, we do order take-out once a week. Usually it’s Friday and we flip between the two favorites stand-by’s in my house – Pizza and Chinese. And I have no guilt in admitting, I never looked at either of these as “bad” food choices.
First the pizza – wants not to like about cheese, sauce and dough? Throw on some mushrooms, onions and pepperoni and I’m really not seeing the problem with this.
Now the Chinese. I’m sure you’ve seen all the reports by now that the vegetables in the chinese food are BAD. Now, I’ll admit I always knew all that sodium was there. But since we’re not big salt people – sure I sprinkle it here and there into my cooking, but we don’t even put the salt shaker on the table – I figured once in a while eating a high sodium dish wasn’t so terrible. And the kids love sesame chicken with broccoli. Yes, they eat the broccoli and ask for more. They eat the rice. They love the peppers and onions in whatever dish hubster or I get. And I felt good – they were eating vegetables!
Now imagine this mother’s horror to find out the vegetables are bad. Okay – I get the whole loaded with oil (bad oil) and salt. I don’t have to be hit over the head, after all. I guess I just never rationalized that all those stuff together would be bad. I was too content in not cooking on Friday to think about the down side of those rotten vegetables I’ve been pushing on my unsuspecting kidlets!
What will they find a way to ruin next? Chocolate – if someone tells me chocolate is now a cancer causing food – I’ll faint!
So now that my Friday night take-out plans have been altered – I need a new plan to alternate with my pizza. Thank God tonight is pizza night – I have a week to come up with a new idea!
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