Does anyone remember the book from elementary school: How to eat Fried Worms?
That’s what came to mind as I assembled today’s lunch. I started out with a monster salad (mixed greens, spinach, and lots of chard), with sesame-ginger dressing and crunchy almonds. So far so good. But then, when I cooked up some of my newest-favorite high-protein spaghetti, things got ugly.
Really ugly. Above, the spaghetti and salad, along with garlic-y zucchini, which I sautéed using this healthy method. Nothing wrong with how my lunch tasted!
Do you know how hard it is to make that pasta appear appetizing? Looks like a plate filled with earthworms!!
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While I’ve never had worms I’ve had my fair of spaghetti in my day lol. Hmm weird food? Um I’ve dipped dorito’s into plain vanilla ice cream loL! Oh man to make it worse, it was good!!
When I was a kid I ate mud on a dare, and I’ve definitely had Milk Bones before, its very unfortunate that Scooby Snacks look so similar.
That banana bread in a bowl looks amazing! And so do the ugly noodles, I love ugly food, it’s so much fun!
I never ate any bugs but I did eat both cat and dog food and every type of plant. Grass, leaves, honeysuckle, and lots of wild green onions. Those were a significant part of my elementary school diet.
Yep, I too tried a dog treat once. That was about it though. I knew lots of kids who ate bugs but I always thought it was gross!
Bugs freaked me out so much when I was younger that I wouldn’t even read that book, let alone eat a worm! They still freak me out a little actually. I don’t remember doing it, but apparently I ate an eraser that looked like a hamburger when I was little. hehe.
LOL oh my gosh, I am laughing so much at this, imagining a cute little Kiersten gobbling up an eraser!
What a Great book, I have not thought of that book in so long. 😉
Your Meals look good to me! I cannot find that pasta at Whole FOods- on many occasions too, Any tips on how to find it???They said they ordered it too….
I might of taken a bite out of a cranyon once in K (ok I know I did for sure, it was purple) but that is better than a worm right?!Katie, I also have tried a milk bone! Glad to know we have another thign in common!!
Sadly, my WF doesn’t have it either. I found one package at a little hfs near my grandma in NY. But now I am completely out :(.
I’m contemplating breaking down and just ordering it online. (Navanfoods.com is the website, I think.)
I don’t know if you checked, but my Whole Foods keeps them down by the asian noodles. They are a plenty by me unlike me beloved soba noodles. 🙂
Sadly, I’ve checked. They’re m.i.a. around here. I guess Texans just don’t like eating worms! 😉
thanks for the suggestions- I looked in the Asian/Thai Foods but will try again.
I can’t recall eating anything strange, although I was rushed into the Emergency Ward because my parents thought I had swallowed a pound coin (UK currency) Luckily an x-ray exonerated me though 😉
To me that spaghetti looks delicious! In fact, I could gobble your whole meal right off the screen. I wish I could find the spaghetti or something similar in backward old England!
Hope you’re having a fab Sunday
~Jess~
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Katie, I was just eating my snack and saw this title…:s
…BLEEEERRGH. xD
hahaha oops! Sorry to ruin your appetite!
Yeahhh I tried cat food once. And I remember at least like 5 kids every year “accidentally” swallowing worms (how that even HAPPEN?!) throughout elementary school. Haha. Some of our school lunches could be categorized as “strange”/inedible too (e.g. their “McRib” sandwich. nuff said.).
Great. Now I’ll never try black bean pasta. 😉
I ate wet cat food once. I swear I remember my mom telling me it was good but she has no idea what I’m talking about. Maybe I asked if the cats liked it and she said yes..and then I somehow twisted that into “it tastes good.” I was 4 so that’s probably what happened. Granted, it.was.disgusting.
Mmmm, that black- bean paste looks yummmyy. Too bad it’s not available at WF. I do hate shipping costs, too, but lemme know if you find a cheap site to get them from!
DO give the recipe for your semame- gingah dressing, looks good 🙂
LOL it’s easy: open a bottle of Newman’s Own and pour. Hehehe easy peasy “recipe” 😉
Newman’s own ginger dressing? My fav. ginger dressing would have to be Annie’s gingerly:)
Yep, I definitely crunched on some Milk Bones in my day – I wanted to sample every flavor to see if they were really different!
I also used to tear off a bit of paper, crumple it up, put it in my mouth, and pretend it was chewing gum. My mom was just a tad overprotective and was afraid I’d choke on real gum, so I wasn’t allowed to have it for the longest time. Good job, Mom; instead of hypothetically choking on gum, I probably ingested whatever nasty bleaches, dyes, and chemicals are in notebook paper! Gross!
Haha I sooo remember that book! And when I was a little kid, I thought I was a dinosaur from watching The Land Before Time so much and ate the leaves off trees. Now I’m a vegetarian… go figure.
And I actually really want to try that spaghetti! Did you find it at Whole Foods?
I actually found it at a little hfs in NY. My WF doesn’t sell it :(. But some people say that theirs do. Look in the Asian section. I hope you have better luck than I do!!
I love black bean anything! Must try this stuff.
Perhaps I’m weird, but I don’t think the noodles look all that bad 🙂 And thanks for the shout out! I would argue those aren’t exactly my best photos though 😉
Haha well they’re better than any of mine! But I agree that some of your other photos are even more amazing… if that’s even possible…