Category: Food (Page 2 of 156)

I’m not much of a Mexican food eater. I don’t dislike it… it’s just not something I have frequently eaten. It seems a shame. I live in a city that has so many good Mexican restaurants.

I do get it occasionally though. I’m afraid I’m pretty embarrassingly American in my tastes. My regular choices are steak fajitas, tamales, or nachos.

Last night I got Mexican carryout. I was craving hard shell tacos. The place I ordered them from must sell them mostly to people like me. The insides were ground beef, cheese, tomatoes, and lettuce. I’ve seen this kind of taco on the menu at another place, and they were called “American style”. Heh.

There’s an old-fashioned steak house just down the road from me. I had driven past it dozens of times, but had never gone there… until last night.

The inside did not disappoint – red upholstery, dark wood, dim light, lots of old people… I enjoyed the atmosphere a lot.

But I have to admit, I was not overwhelmed by the steak. I was just whelmed. It was good, but it did not knock my socks off.

Still, I’m glad I went. I have missed other opportunities to stop in new places before, and I regret that.

There was a middle school track meet during the day yesterday, and most of the students participated, so the ones who stayed at school didn’t have a regular class schedule. We did a few service projects instead.

There’s a storage container on campus that has emergency supplies in case we are stuck on campus for a while. Among the supplies are emergency food and water kits. The packages have a shelf life of five years. Before they expire, we are sending them to an organization who can share them with homeless people. We loaded them into a van, and then replaced them with new ones that were delivered yesterday.

In the interest of Science, we opened one. There were six nutrition bars. The instructions say to eat two per day – three days worth of food. I looked at the ingredients. The first two were sugar and flour.

Of course we had to try it. It tasted like a weird cookie. It was sweet and kind of bland. But then it had an unusual after-taste. Sort of… vinegary? I would definitely be able to eat these if there were some kind of apocalyptic earthquake or zombie attack, but I would not choose to eat it under normal circumstances.

The last time I was at the grocery store, I saw some fancy oranges that were supposed to be extra sweet and extra tasty. I got some!

They ARE extra sweet and tasty! Nice! I don’t know if I would buy these again though. They were more expensive than regular oranges, and they’re pretty small. And I live in California, where delicious oranges are plentiful.

Every once in a while, I stop at Starbucks on my way to school. I get lots of Starbucks gift cards, and I try to use them now and again.

I stopped yesterday, and as I was waiting in line, I noticed the Subway across the parking lot. It says it’s open 24 hours. A 24 hour Subway? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that. But I guess now I know a place I can go if I want a sandwich at 2am.