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<\/a>Yesterday was my first run in 9 days and I was starving after my run. I ate my lunch, ate my apple as my afternoon snack, and I was still hungry. Intense hunger is almost always related to my running or swimming routine. I got home from work last night already in the “dark side.” Famished.<\/p>\nThis is how Michael wanted our dinner conversation to go:<\/p>\n
Michael: “What do you want for dinner tonight?”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Me: “Let’s make a lovely Roast Duck in Orange Sauce with duck sauce, a lovely port wine and oranges.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n How did the conversation really go?<\/p>\n Michael: “What do you want for dinner tonight?”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Me: (stares blankly) “Um”… stutter, stammer…”Uh food. Yeah, food.” <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Michael:\u00a0 “But what do you want to eat? What kind of food?”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Me: (getting frustrated) “I don’t know! Something…” <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I know it sounds silly…but it’s really hard to focus. No food sounds appealing to me–yet ALL food sounds appealing. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just a freak?!<\/p>\n So Michael sent me to the store with a grocery list of some veggies and proteins. I got the store and was suddenly able to focus. And I even thought up a yummy dinner! I picked up a bottle of Alfredo sauce from the Clearance Bin.<\/p>\n I decided we were going to make a Chicken Alfredo dish.<\/p>\n Cooked the chicken in the skillet and I cooked the whole wheat fettucine:<\/p>\n Add the sauce:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Michael said we’d “wing it” instead of using a recipe. He chopped up some broccoli.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>When the pasta was almost done, I poured the water out and Michael added it to the skillet.<\/p>\n<\/a>Mix it all together and let it simmer for a bit.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n