You’re Only As Cool As Your Dinosaur Shaped Nuggets

So, it’s no secret… Ray and I are food snobs. And to make it worse, I’m a picky food snob. We don’t go out to eat all that often because my favorite restaurant is HOME. There I can get whatever I want cooked just the way I like it. I was a vegetarian for many years before meeting Ray. About 2 or 3 years into our relationship I couldn’t take it anymore, it just smelled so good, and I devoured a steak right then and there (and promptly got sick because my body was in shock, but that’s another story…) Now, I am a chicken addict, I could eat it every day.
Our freezer holds a ton of food, very little of it is processed food. Much of it is meals we have prepared, homemade sauces or demi glazes, and of course ice cream, my weakness. Most of what we eat is organic, locally grown, hormone free, blah blah blah. Yep, I’m one of those people.
So, since we’re food snobs, we don’t go to fast food restaurants or any of that… stuff. But that’s not to say that sometimes we don’t crave chicken nuggets and fries. But there is a better alternative. So today we’re out shopping, it’s way past lunch time, and we’re both starving. This is of course the worst time to go shopping because you put anything and everything in your cart and contemplate gnawing off your own arm if you could.
Ray mentions that he has to go to work early, so it’s too early for dinner, and we’ve missed lunch. Many folks would cruise through a fast food drive through on the way home… but not us. We decided to buy some “fast food” (GULP… processed food….) and tried to find a healthy version. For some reason the only 100% meat, no hormones added, blah blah blah were these chicken nuggets cut into DINOSAUR shapes. I always laugh at the people whose kids will only eat the shaped food, because it tastes soooo much different than the regular ones. (insert eye roll here). But here we were, buying into the gimmick. Are adults not able to eat chicken nuggets? Or can we only eat the bad for you ones? Well, I wanted my nuggets dangit, so we bought them.
There we sat at our dining room table, not a kid in the house, eating dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. I am 28, and Ray is… well… much older than that… I say to him “This is pitiful” and he turns to me and says “Ya know… you’re only as cool as your dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets…”
I just started laughing, what a sight are we…
What are some of the ways that you are able to eat healthy foods fast? We hope to have some 6+ year olds living here soon and I imagine I’m going to have to learn how to cook… this oughtta be interesting….

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