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A Snaccident at Noon

Last night I sautéed some zucchini, spinach, garlic and onions in a little olive oil. Added some red pepper flakes and prepared some chicken pierogi from Trader Joes (in boiling water, much like pasta). Then I pan fried those in the leftover seasoned oil from the veggies. Tossed everything together with a little chicken stock, a chopped tomato, salt & pepper, all ready to bring for lunch today. It’s actually really, really good. A healthy, sensible lunch — even with the grated parmesan cheese on top.

I forgot the cheese. Well, hell. Now it really is healthy.

So what did I do? I left it sitting in the fridge at work (will bring cheese on Friday! I will write myself a note and everything!) and I went to Baja Fresh. Baja Fresh, who are evil enough to put the nutritional value of their food online. Me, who is stupid enough to have looked at it. Damn you, Morgan Spurlock!

I even looked at the numbers again today, trying to talk myself out of it. The only thing I can ever justify getting there is the Grilled Veggie Burrito and even that is a tough sell. I’m not even super-super enamoured of Baja Fresh. It’s no Una Mas/Pepino’s. But I was totally in a burrito mood and not in a cheese-less pierogi & veggies mood.

All I can say after this insensible act is that I think they forgot to put the cheese on my burrito. Or it melted. And I didn’t enjoy it at all. Except, by that, I mean I did — just a little. There will be extra laps around the duck pond this afternoon, to be sure.

4 Replies to “A Snaccident at Noon”

  1. When I was working at Metalwest in Commerce City, the ladies in the office ate fast food for lunch EVERY DAY of the week. Here is a sample tasting Mon.: 7-Eleven Nachos and soda, Tues: KFC with soda and fries, Wed: Taco Bell with soda, Thurs: DQ Onion Rings w/ a Moolatte chaser and Fri: a huge platter of french fries smothered in green chili sauce, cheese and sour cream. In addition to this they also drank about 3 mountain dews a day. I am not even exaggerating when I say this happened every week for the 3 1/2 months I was there. No amount of my fast food nation thumping, morgan spurlock spouting discouragement deterred them one bit. They also made fun of my healthy food every day. I can’t help it if my frozen fish and peas smelled like garbage!
    So your once a month burrito is alright in my book!

  2. Oh good. Because it really is only about once a month. And c’mon (in GOB voice), it was grilled veggies! 🙂
    But yeah, eating healthy is usually very, very tasty and eating fast food everyday would be horrible and gross. I would not make fun of your healthy food…I would swap lunch recipes.

  3. Baja Fresh sux0rz. Una Mas/Pepinos/Whateverthehelltheyarecallednow are like, OMG, way better and stuff. And the thick, red, almost salty smoky fiery salsa at Una Mas is my absolute favourite salsa EVAR. I salivate sitting here, just imagining it.. on the burrito… with the chips.. dipping the burrito in the salsa and scooping out salsa’d burrito-y goodness with chips… and with scrambled eggs the next morning.
    I too am snaccident-prone .. some wicked-willed deviant brought in doughnuts to work today. I have no self control; Now I can’t feel my legs.

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