VENT DAY!!!!

As promised, I am back again today! And yes, I will be putting a recipe for a delicious smoothie that I am having for breakfast at the end.  However, I need to do a food vent today too!

I swear that Satan himself forges some of these food products from the 7th level of Hell in order to tempt us to the dark side.  Let's start with Oreos....possibly the best morsel of chocolaty goodness with a frosting center to ever find its way onto the shelves.  I think I can actually hear them calling my name from the produce section of every store I've been in.  And, of course, they seem to ALWAYS be on sale.  My problem with Oreos is that, unlike potato chips (which I actually don't like), I can never eat just one.  The devil on one shoulder continuously kicks the living shizz out the the angel on the other shoulder whenever I cross paths with an Oreo.  If I knew anything about chemistry, I would work til my dying day to invent a fat free, calorie free, piece of celery that tasted EXACTLY like an Oreo.  Alas, my love/hate relationship with the Oreo has come to an end.  Instead of my dating anti-Christ, it is my food anti-Christ, and since I know the path to Hades is paved with Oreos, I am NOT going to succumb to the temptation (although Christian from Q100 is MORE than welcome to do a food porn bit based on this terrible, awful, evil, DELICIOUS cookie).

The next item I love....I mean HATE is Starbucks' Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino with Whipped Cream.  They trick you into thinking it's merely a coffee drink that will give you a little pick me up when you're feeling extra tired, but NOOOOOOO.  This simple coffee drink has 510 calories, 19 grams of fat, 11 of which are saturated, 59 grams of sugar and 300 mg of sodium!!! WHAT????  Coffee????  GRRRRRRRRRRRR.  Right from Beelzebub's kitchen counter coffee pot.

The last food item I'm going to bag on is McDonald's French Fries.  UGH!!!!  These thin strips of salty goodness are sooooooo delicious!!!  They are cheap, salty, and so very tasty.  This is all a disguise.  I liken it to being Catfished online.  They're potatoes....a vegetable, right?  They're small in size...so slim they can't possibly have too many calories.  They're golden yellow, like the afternoon Spring sun.  People like me, on very strict budget, can get a whole large cardboard thingy of them for just the change we find at the  bottom of our purses!  And like the aforementioned Oreo, I can't eat just one.....serving.  These things are about as vegetable-like as a piece of German Chocolate cake.  F these fries,  I just can't anymore.  It's exhausting to even think about them.

I'm going to stop there...I apologize to all the people that I will have insulted by calling their favorite "food" products from Lucifer.  I could definitely go on....don't get me started on the fact that I have to drive by a Krispy Kreme with their "Hot Now" sign lit every single morning on my way to work.  But I really needed to get that off my chest.  I would have preferred to yell at the top of my lungs a profanity laden tirade but figured upper management may not like that in the middle of the office and while $12 an hour isn't much, it is something! :)

Now for the recipe I promised:

This is the smoothie I have been making for my breakfast.  I find it very filling and satisfying.  You can substitute the fruit you use with whatever kind you like, but here is my morning smoothie:

Ingredients:

-2 cups of fresh spinach
-1/2 cup of plain, fat free Greek Yogurt
-4-6 medium strawberries
-1/2 cup blueberries
-ice

Instructions:

Blend it in your blender (I know...kinda obvious.)

Drink

Calories:  222
Protein:   12.46 grams
Dietary Fiber:  10.4 grams
Carbs: (good ones)  32 grams


That is it for today!  Hope you all have a happy, healthy day! xoxo