Boys, have I got a tale for you tonight!
My wife and I needed to go out and do some shopping. So she talked me into going to Pizza Hut. Since she is on a "life change" (that means diet in Weight Watchers lingo if I understand it correctly) she talked me into the Fit & Healthy pizza with ham, red onion and mushroom. Personally, I usually vote for the meat lovers. But since I will eat anything that was meant to be eaten and she was still talking about pizza I figured, "What the heck. I'll try it."
What an interesting error in judgement that turned out to be! ;)
Apparently, the Fit & Healthy pizza is a special crust with light sauce, light cheese, and healthy toppings.
Now when I say special crust I actually mean a substance that I can best describe as a Pilot cracker. I love Pilot crackers. Thank goodness Nabisco decided to continue them just for my grandfather and I. But I love them with peanut butter. This was not quite I had in mind when I said, "How can they ruin pizza?"
Now when I say light sauce I mean that they brushed on a skim coat of something vaguely red in color. Since it was so thin I can not be sure exactly what it is. I give Pizza Hut the benifit of the doubt that it was a pizza sauce.
Now the light cheese was acceptable. It at least covered everything. Not quite the monsterous amount I put on my homemade pizza. But I fault no one for that. :)
The amount of ham, onion and mushroom was what would normally be on a pizza. So no complaints there.
But I am hung up on the Pilot cracker pizza crust. I don't think I will foregive my wife soon. And I intend to write to Pizza Hut in protest of them even suggesting that it might be a pizza.
It might as well have been cheese on hardtack! The darndest thing I've eaten since I had Black Pudding in London.
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With you..
Mike,
My wife is also on a "life change" and has hijacked me. If her plan works, I should be 20lbs lighter come spring. I just have to make good choices concerning how I spend my points. Good choices...?
Pvt/Lt Craig Young
3rd Maine, Company A
29th Georgia/7th Maine
December 3rd, 2005 Go NAVY!!! 2004 Game Score: Navy 42 - Army 13
MWLWN LABE! Molon labe, “Come and get them!
I've thought about going on
I've thought about going on a diet, but I don't want to have to spend the money on new uniforms! So I'll stay fat, happy and with more money in my pocket that I don't have to spend on uniforms.
Lt. Jason Porter
29th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
ferinus vis quod ignarus
eye-talian hardtack
you might have hit on an idea there mike....insted of english muffun pizza, hardtack pizza. maybe the greese from the sauce and the cheese would soften it up enough to bite and we could sell em at reenactments, what you had sounds very close to the first pizza known to man, which was developed by roman legionaires in Jeruslem, having little provisions they took matzos and put toppings and oilve oil on em for a tasty treat while burning the temple of Solomon...
Best case for losing weight is eat and drink in moderation and excercise, and you dont have to do iron man arnold three hour workouts.... walking is one of the best excercises...i but my guiness (which is good for you) in a heavy mug and do arm curls...
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
I once...
... ate some hardtack and bit into something soft but it turned out to be a nail.
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
Major Eric R. Reeder
CSO, 1st Division ANV, Staff
Liberty Hill Signals
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
Knowledge is Good
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"
-Dean Wormer
Seems to work for me.
Life change....
For thoughs of you who's wives are doing the "life Change" it may be different and nasty at first but think positive. None of you really have the time to run or exercise on a regular basis, and when you do your problubly too tierd. On the up side your still eating healthy, loosing wieght, and making your wives happy. thats got tot be a +
Pvt.J.Thurlow
What...
...the Sam Hill are you pratteling on about?
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
hard tac
Ok I know I am of the "dense" gender but what does hard tac have to do with the change of life. HUMMMMMMMm Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves
Had my first "hard tac"
On Nov 28, I made the lifechanging decision to hold in a sneeze...resulting in a blood pressure spike that actually blew a small artery in my heart and caused me to have a "hard tack"....after three days in the hospital, I came to the realization that I'm a 50 year old TBG who has GOT to change my life a bit if I want to be around for Gettysburg 175...or even 150....
Fortunately, despite my girth and thanks to genetically low cholesterol, I don't have a "heart disease", but this was a wake up call to change a few things about myself. Lose some of the weight and take the pressure off my heart...just may have a chance at a longer life...
So...does anyone out there have any good recipies for ATKINS's style Hard Tac? I am thinking of layering beef jerky with hard cheese and coating it in bacon fat. Yummie...and no carbs...
Merry Christmas Ya'll
Take a pound...
... of sharp cheddar, toss it into a greased fry skillet, and melt it down until it gets the consistancy of medium cooked thick bacon, scrape it off into a mucket and enjoy!
All Atkins friendly and yummy too!
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
Pardon me Major
But UGH! Atkins might have died from hitting his head on an icy sidewalk but to me it just means his diet didn't get a chance to kill him. I think if you blew something from stiffling a sneeze Rod, you're taking a chance at blowing something else with the Atkins diet. I've heard things that tell me it's not very re-laxative if you get my meaning. Best to try eating sensibly & getting moderate exercise. At least to start. Good luck!
~Miss Patti
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss
You just never know...
I will never cease to be amazed as to where these topics end up! :)
The "life change" was a reference I made in the first post about my wife going to Weight-Watchers. Apparently, they don't like to call it a diet. They want those who participate to change the habits of their life so that they are forever eating better, more balanced, healthier meals. The thought of the other kind of life change and all these fine gentleman discussing it turns the whole topic creepy. :)
Sorry to hear of your recent unpleasantness Rod. I'm no expert but I must agree with Miss Patti. I think if I was going to consider some guides for a diet then i wouldn't follow the Atkins plan. I'd follow a diabetic diet. Although it has some similarities I think it is more balanced and healthier.
Now major, I'm trying to imagine this cheese dish. I love cheese! Are there any variations? Maybe Santa will provide a good hunk of cheese and a fire to test this dish with. :)
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Michael Johnson
well I am the same age as
well I am the same age as you well just one year older lololol I plan on being around for the 175th but I am a low carb junkie I live on cheese and bacon but no hard tac I take pork rinds and a can of spray whipped cream yum yum My cholesterol and blood pressure are so low they worry about me. Rebel Rod best of luck to ya
Yummy
I bet the Major's dish would taste fine with a chunk of Montery Jack with Jalapenos!
Cpl Marc Averill
29thGA
Good Lord!
Beware of the low carb diet. It works but I felt like crap when I was on it. A daily walk is a great low impact way to burn off calories, but can be problematic in Maine in the middle of the winter. Reasonable diet and reasonable exercise will probably help shed the pounds and not make it feel like you are being deprived.
I also am in the frame of
I also am in the frame of mind that "diet"regimineseses...er..plans or the tool of the devil or enterprising captialists, the weight watchers concept of the life change is correct but it comes with expensive meals....thus came the south beach and the akins products. eat less, smaller meals more often and excercise in some form...even if its just going up and down the stairs...I lost ten puonds doing that...now im gaining due to the winter and the holidays, but thats sort of why I do It....im not gorging on holiday fare but I am partaking. now we have snow on the ground the snowshoes and cross country skies are going to come out.....nothing like working up a sweat in below freezing conditions.
in all thing one must have a balance, so eat drink and be merry, but just dont over do it.
Seamus
cl.265
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
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TBG might pass amongst the brotherhood but the outside world prefers the title of gravitationally challanged. "I'm not over weight, I'm undertall" "I'm in shape, round is a shape!"
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Cpt. Nathan Brittles
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
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