Luncheon03/07/09

I'm having a bloody terrible day. Auditors really starting to annoy me now, I'm hungry, tired and it's pissing it down. So decided today to opt for more comfort food for two reasons, one, I'm bloody miserable and two, Gregg's is the closest place to walk to in the rain. So I give you: The Impromptu, Stodgy, Dead-Bad-For-You Gregg's Three-Course Banquet!



This consisted of a starter of fine seasoned succulent pork mince, wrapped delicately in all butter puff pastry, hand-rolled by er... (actually don't want to think about what may have prepared it in Walsall). Accurately dubbed the "Sausage Roll". A standard salty pork fest. Top norris.

For main course we have the pièce de résistance, the all-new Gregg's "Fajita Chicken Lattice". This is a new addition to the Gregg's arsenal of coronary delights. Now I must say, it tastes splendid. It's difficult to peer into the slime inside and make out what's actually in it, but it seems to be made mostly of some kind of orange paste. I'm guessing, both from experience and my taste-buds that this consists of some kind of excuse for cheese, paprika, cumin, chili powder and possibly some excuse for peppers and onions somewhere. Of the chicken... Well, I don't recall sensing any. There may have been some deep in the slurry, but it was also volcanically hot, so I'll never know. All in all, as tasty as a Gregg's pasty gets! Nom

For dessert we have the standard Gregg's Peperoni pizza. This is the first time I've had a peperoni one from there. I normally just have the cheese pizza. What did the peperoni add to the dry, chewy, tomato paste-laden slice of unpleasantness? Well it added saltiness. So now its a dry, chewy, tomato paste-laden slice of salty unpleasantness. Not impressed.

Also, it's Friday and thus, project:Adonis weigh in day:

project:Adonis weight: 14st 12lb

So, I've gon nowhere this week. Hardly surprising though considering I've been eating crap constantly...

It's Back!

It's been well over a year since I was careless enough to neglect my duties as an internet fatty. I've decided to resurrect the Luncheon Blog. Many experiments have I been conducting, and many of them I can share with you. As a taster, I give you...

Drunken TOATS!


Also back is this year's project:Adonis sadly... Last weigh-in last year was 14st 1lb. I'm currently at 14st 12lb... Let's just say it was a pretty weird year ok...

We'll continue this later...

Luncheon 18/01/08

Well, I was meant to be going for a pub lunch but I was stood up. Won't go into that. Also, it was raining and no-one likes the rain. SO I went as far as Boots for the £2.95 luncheon. I had the pack of three Chicken themed sarns, a bag of carrots and a tasty 'Innocent' Smoothie. Well, the smoothie was good... The sarn-pack contained Chicken Salad, Chicken and Sweetcorn and Chicken and Bacon. Chicken Salad, well, it had tomatoes on, and we all know my opinions on tomatoes in sarnies now don't we? Well, of course it was a sloppy, watery tasteless mess. Chicken and sweetcorn... Or should it be called mayonnaise with a strip of chicken and some sourcorn? Horrible. Chicken and Bacon was OK, but only because the bacon tasted nice. Basically, it was a crap pack of sandwiches. Then the bag of carrots. I don't know how you get carrots wrong, but they did. tasteless watery little sticks of crunch that they were. At least the smoothie didn't let me down! I can't actually remember what it was but it was orange in colour and had something called goji berries in it... I didn't think it was worth a photo...

Oh yeah, and project:Adonis is going really well, lost another 2lb!

project:Adonis weight: 14st 0lb

Luncheon 11/01/08

Ah Friday... Usually the realm of the Friday Special in the canteen, but alas not this week. So JD and I ventured down to the Varsity in town for a bit of two-for-a-fiver action. I had the 'Smoked Haddock and Spring Onion Fish Cakes' which came with chips and peas. Standard. It looked like this:



Well, let me see... It could have been good. Even for Brake Brothers generic reheatable pub crap, it could have been good. However, there just isn't any passion in these pub kitchens any more. The fish cakes were overcooked, deep-fried in dirty oil that was too cold. The upshot of which being sloppy greasy fishcakes that tasted a bit of burnt. The chips were once freshly cooked I believe, when they got to me they were lukewarm and chewy like they'd been on a hot plate for an hour. Nasty. And the peas again... Oh Lord, how hard can it be to cook a pea? Again, overcooked, anaemic, tasteless balls of horrible... I bet the kitchen staff are all budding chefs as well in their brains. Amateurs. Even the plates were cold. The superfluous wedge of dry lemon was a lovely finishing touch, couldn't even be arsed to add the usual bit of chopped parsley garnish. However, for £2.50, one can't complain too loudly, it was a bargain! Can't say as it fitted in with the diet but I'm allowed a little indulgence as long as I work it off!

Oh yes, weigh in day! I managed to drop another pound. Must try harder next week!

project:Adonis weight: 14st 2lb

First Proper Weigh-in of the Year

Well project:Adonis doesn't just include me, it's essentially all the fat guys at work. This morning is the first weigh-in of the year (yesterday was just my sneak peek). Oddly enough its the same as yesterday...

project:Adonis weight: 14st 3lb

Well I bleedin' didn't did I?

No, I managed not to keep it up-to-date whatsoever, so here's a new year's one now I'm back at work. Today, I ate leftover pasta bolognese that my browd made two days ago. I reheated it in the microwave at work and it was tasty, if not a little not filling... But that's ok! for I am now part of project:Adonis! Yes that's right ladies! these love handles? Say goodbye! They're going! From now on, we're eating healthily. Yes, I know that may sound silly, but there's only so much pork a man can eat before becoming porcine himself. On that note, an aside, watch this:

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Sadly, no photo today, I need to work out how to set my phone up to email again cos the blue teeth on my PC need to see a dentist. So, imagine the following: succulent conchigli pasta with a thin coating of tasty tomato, basil and oregano. A hint of garlic and beautifully juicy red onions and finally, the finest minced steak browned off, all mixed together with Collier's Welsh mature cheddar...

project:Adonis weight: 14st 3lb