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March 17, 2005

Culinary School And Diets, A Hard Combination

Today was the first day of a mini-vacation from work. I, so far, have never worked on a Thursday since it would be against the point to have to leave in the middle of lunch to get to my 1:00pm class. I woke up this morning, finished some homework including the extra credit for my management class that only three of us remembered to do, ate breakfast (cheese toast), ate lunch (salad), and then went to class. I, again, was doing pretty good on the diet thing... and then I went to my evening class.

What was base of the presentation for our first plate? Buttered Pasta! Oy vey! I ate the Chicken Cacciatore and did my best to not pick up any noodles. Then came Pot Roast with Rice. I was still pretty good and only tried a couple of bites of the rice while we were cooking it to check on the seasonings before we presented them. Since this is week one of the diet, I am hereby making a mental note to take my "fat-blocker cheat pills" with me to class, because although I am on a diet and can exhibit some willpower by not eating our plates when we are done, I CANT present a plate without first tasting the item to adjust seasonings, since that is one of the major things we are graded on.

It is nearly 1am and I am headed to bed. Tomorrow my mother will be in town and together we will be meeting and eating lunch with the two little girls for whom my mother babysat when she was younger and they were the flower girls in her wedding. They aren't little girls anymore, but then again, neither am I. Although I am my parent's firstborn (and only for that matter,) both of them consider T & T their older daughters.

The younger T's birthday is tomorrow and we are going to get to celebrate with them. Since the older T doesn't eat anything "that had a face or came from something that had a face or who's mama had a face," if she can find something to eat then I am sure that I should be able to find something worthy of my diet for lunch.

Tomorrow should prove to be a fun but busy day and I will be back online and post more tomorrow evening.

Until then, take care.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at March 17, 2005 11:59 PM

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