dances with calorie counting

[serinde]

Knowing the fastest ways to fix my brane, Brian took me for ice cream at Maggie Moo's, which we'd passed a bunch of times but hadn't been to yet. Not only is it absofuckinglutely fantastic--move over, Ben & Jerry; go way back and sit down, Haagen-Dasz--but they have a great range of flavors. I stopped at cinnamon. I will perform any sex act you care to name, twice over, for cinnamon ice cream. In virtuous service to the diet, though, I only got the smallest possible cup.

Which virtue turned out to be almost entirely irrelevant, in the event.

For dinner, we tried this vaguely-"upscale" (if that's not a contradiction in terms) Mexican fast food place, by which I mean they make much noise about super-fresh ingredients and sauces made in-house and your burrito is constructed in front of you to your liking, blah blah healthy blah artisanal blah. Taste-wise, it was a cut above standard fast food, though it certainly wasn't the best burrito I've ever had; but it was good enough.

Less pleasing was when I got home to look up the nutritional data, for to log my intake, and found that my innocuous chicken burrito (rice, black beans, corn salsa, no cheese, no guac, no sour cream) was 950 calories.

OMGWTFBBQ fails to fully express my shock and dismay. O happy day, that I only ate half of the fucking thing.

And of course, this also makes me wonder if I've been dramatically underestimating the amount of calories when I get a burrito at Cafe Beyond, or Burritoville, or Uncle Moe's.

Comments

[mangosteen]

So, you should come up to Boston.
...and while you should do that on general principle anyway, the reason I suggest that you should come up to Boston is because the best ice cream in the world (according to the New York Times (?!)), is up here in Cambridge.

Toscanini's Ice Cream.
Incredible stuff.
They even make Banoffee ice cream.

So nu? Visit Boston.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Hah! I have been to Tosci's. You will recall I married an MIT boy. And yeah, it was damn fine.

I would like to visit Boston, in a way that is not jam-packed with Arisia, but I don't think it's going to happen in the next couple months. Blah blah moving blah.

[kalimar.livejournal.com]

Yes definitely visit Boston. We can sushirate and such fun things also.

btw, nice icon :)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is my fortune cat mug. It is the most happiness that can be purchased for $15. I get warm fuzzies just from holding it. No, I don't understand why that should be.

[kalimar.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah the neko-mug is cute. I was talking about the animated icon though. Looks like you got through the 'animated-icons-suck-to-create' problem..

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Oh! No, dariodevil ganked that from somewhere for me a month+ ago.

[kalimar.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh....

[mangosteen]

I would like to visit Boston, in a way that is not jam-packed with Arisia, but I don't think it's going to happen in the next couple months. Blah blah moving blah.

I think my schedule frees up in.... February?
Either way, we have a guest room, and you're more than welcome to come up.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

You are not free February 18th. I am telling you this. Also I need your postal address. Mail me.

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

We have a Qdoba out here (and a couple of Maggie Moos too...), and I have to say, I prefer Baja Fresh (http://www.bajafresh.com/) overall. Though, frankly, Mexican isn't known for being "low cal" :-/ (You thought the burrito was bad? I once looked up the chicken nachos I ordered... 2000 calories. Yes, three zeroes...)

Maggie Moo's is ok, but usually I'm lucky to find one sugar-free (*cough* no sugar added *cough*) flavor. However, I have to say, I'm interested in trying the cinnamon ice cream to see what it's supposed to be like, and try making it sugar-free! Yum! :-D

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I haven't run across Baja Fresh yet. There's a newish chain I've been seeing around the city called Chipotle; haven't taken a look in there, either. 2000 calories, and they wonder about the "obesity epidemic".

Yeah, trying to find sugar-free ice cream...that can't be an easy search.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

There's a newish chain I've been seeing around the city called Chipotle

I heard that they used to be good, but then they got bought up by McDonalds (or something along those lines), and now they suck. I haven't actually verified any of that.

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Chipotle is owned by McDonald's; I don't know if they ever weren't. I know the one on 6th Ave. between 21 and 22 was yummy back in May; yummy but stripped-down, basically you can get one of these five meats in a big or small tortilla or over rice, with one of these three sauces and some lettuce etc. Nothing complicated.

I've been addicted to Baja Fresh since Shirley and I stopped at one in Vegas during our honeymoon 2 years ago, and just this summer they've opened one next to the Pathmark on Rt. 1 and Plainfield Ave. in Edison. (5 minutes from me) My only complaint is that they sometimes undercook the beans. But yeah, it's quite a mouthful of calories. I think the tortillas are one of the culprits. (mmmm, flour and shortening o'rama...)

[dkfromtk.livejournal.com]

I will perform any sex act you care to name, twice over, for cinnamon ice cream.

In lieu of the comment everyone who's known me for more than half an hour would think I'd make, I'm just going to say that lemon pie ice cream beats the everloving ass off cinnamon.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

HERETIC!

If I want lemon pie, I will bloody well eat lemon pie. I don't need my ice cream masquerading as other desserts.

[dkfromtk.livejournal.com]

They even throw in little chunks of pie crust...

That there's good eatin'.