Is there any soda better than an ice cold Coca Cola hecho en México? Khajiit thinks not.

I'm eating a salad and drinking tea.

While shopping for groceries yesterday I decided to buy a can of Campbell's Chunky Spicy BBQ Seasoned Chicken with Beans. I do no normally buy full-strength Campbell's soup, but only their Healthy Select soups. If nothing else, almost all those full strength soups contain MSG, a no-no for a migraine sufferer like me. To my surprise, this particular full strength soup doesn't.

I had it for lunch. First thing I noticed on opening the can was that, as feared, it was mostly heavy broth with some beans and chicken cubes added in, rather a hearty combo of meat and beans with a bit of added sauce as the label shows. Then there's the taste. Being BBQ, I expected some sweetness. But this was overpoweringly sweet. Way too sweet for me. Far sweeter than the peach I had for dessert.

The other week I splurged and bought a jar of WowButter, to eat at those rare times I can't bring myself to prepare a more elaborate meal. I really shouldn't have bought it, but every now and then get an urge for a peanut butter sandwich, another migraine no-no. In my estimation WowButter tastes VERY like the real thing, certainly as close in flavor to peanut butter as some competing brands of peanut butter are to each other. It's a tad on the sweet side for me, but a smidgen of sea salt added in counterbalances that. This is a product I'd recommend anyone who likes peanut butter but is allergic to nuts or, like me, must avoid migraine trigger-foods.

World of Warcraft Peanut Butter? I am allergic to peanuts, so am very interest in this, not just as a gamer, lol. But I also get migraines from certain foods, so will be hunting this one down!

What I have been eating this past week: Orange Marmalade! A lady I have played ESO with over the past year plus sent me a box of her homemade jams and marmalades in thanks for some armor I made for her characters in game!

After an initial several hours of nervousness over eating something sent to me by someone I met over the internet (and while the Orange Marmalade chilled in the refrigerator) I tried it out - AWESOME! DELICIOUS !!!!!!! So for the past week I have had Orange Marmalade on everything but the kitchen sink. It is gone now, but we just opened up her Boysenberry Marmalade. It is delish too; but of course can't compete with Orange Marmalade!

Anyway, she sent us enough homemade jams to last the winter out; and last year she sent me a batch of her favorite recipes to try out, all very good stuff! She is a very, VERY sweet woman, and an excellent cook/preserver!

So that is what I'll be eating for some time to come,

I had two egg,ham and cheese biscuits and tea from Braums.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Oct 13 2016, 05:58 PM

Didn't feel up to fixing anything for myself come suppertime yesterday, so drove to our local Subway and ordered a 12" tuna sandwich on wheat with American cheese, onion, tomato, olives, lettuce, four hot peppers, and shaken pepper. There was a time, quite a few years ago, when "our" Subway made a scrumptious "dry" tuna. Then the company came down on them for not using the ordained tuna-to-mayo ratio. It's been much "wetter" since then, and in my opinion not nearly as good. It's still edible except when they make it "too" wet, as often happens, in which case I order something else.

For whatever reason I found last night's sammich pretty rancid. Ended up tossing a good fourth/third of it in the trash. Thinking back, I've been at least mildly disappointed with every Subway sammich purchase these past several months, possibly longer. None taste as good, to me, as they used to.

Even last night's napkins, if they can be called that, disappointed. In ancient days they carried a very robust napkin. One of those would normally last an entire meal and still be in decent shape. They've gone through a number of degradations since then, each succeeding variant being less substantial than its immediate predecessor. Last night's napkins, which I'd not seen before, seem little better than tissues. One or two month wipes and they were pretty well worthless.

I might give up on Subway for good. Truth to tell, several deli-made sammiches kept in a cold-bin near that section in our closest Walmart are cheaper and, in my opinion, taste better. They definitely give ya appreciably more (and tastier?) meat per sammich, at least so far as turkey and ham go. There are downsides. Most of those cold-bin sammiches are on some variant of white bread, which I'm no great fan of. Also, toppings are limited to cheese and lettuce. Doesn't bother me all that much. I can add tomato slices and mustard (or some other dressing) once home. In any case I think Walmart will be a more than adequate replacement for the fallen Subway.

A home-made BLT.

Now a root beer float.

I too used to like the "dryer" tuna subs at Subway that I can no longer get; agree what they are mixing these days is too wet for my taste; and also agree that for the past couple years Subway fare seems to have gone downhill overall.

What I have started doing rather than the cold cut pre-made sammies on white bread is to pick up a loaf of fresh baked specialty bread from the grocery store bakery, go to the grocery store deli and have them hand slice whatever meats and cheeses I want on it (to the thickness I specify); pick up a head of lettuce and a tomato; some oil and vinegar. It is ALWAYS delish; only takes minutes to create my own sub that way, and I usually have enough leftover to make one for my son or for me the next day.






On toast? MMMMMMM!







This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 22 2016, 06:05 AM

Once Walmart has better sandwiches than Subway, I think it´s safe to say Subway has gone way south indeed


Sad though. Not fun when something you like degrades like that.

It really is.

Subway has been hit or miss for for a while now. The only thing that's consistent is the cold cut combo.

That is the one I get too - with the pepperjack cheese. I stopped getting the tuna when they changed the formula to slurpy urpy. I love a good meatball sub, but theirs never seems to pass the muster.

I like your style.

Cold cut, pepperjack, lettuce, green peppers, banana peppers, subway vinaigrette. Never toasted.

I was partial to the Spicy Italian for some years, but it just ain't what it used to be. Not sure why. Its ingredients are, on the surface, the same as they've ever been.

They probably changed the source of their meat products or something.

This post has been edited by Cain: Nov 23 2016, 06:01 PM

I know, right? Something is different, but nothing I can point out to say that they have changed this. I think it is just the quality of meat they are buying now (as in "USDA Select" instead of "USDA Choice.") I've noticed the grocery stores had turned to the "Select" and then suddenly came out with a new system that disguised the fact that they had lowered the quality of the meat. (One of the reasons I will NEVAH buy meat in Walmart stores. If you read the label, they are all 6% tenderizing liquids, meaning they are buying older/cheaper meat).

The grocery stores used to sell "Choice" and for a fairly large difference you could buy "Prime" from the Deli counter. "Select" was only sold as a sale/discount item - I used to buy it for my dog's treats.

Now the store is selling "Select" at the price they used to sell "Choice;" and now the "Choice is the price "Prime" used to be - and you can't get the "Prime" anymore in the grocery store here. I have to search out private deli stores for good prime butchered meat anymore; and they have either been run out of business by the prices around them or become elite snob-shops that no one can really afford to buy from (instead of the great corner butcher shops they used to be).






That is my thinking too.

Mine is the Cold Cut with Pepperjack; Lettuce, Green Peppers, Black Olives; and just a dash of the Subway Vinaigrette. I do have them toast the bread before they put the cheese on so the cheese is delightfully melted just a touch before the (cold) meat is added.

Normally I love tomatoes, but not the ones Subway gets (which are tasteless) so I don't bother getting them on my sammie there.

Dang, pretty similar! Agree on tomatoes. I've never had a good, fast food, tomato.

Ditto. I think Wendy's came close once, but it didn't last. And I live near Grainger County Tennessee; which is nationally recognized for its tomatoes. There is no excuse for any food place in this area not having the best tomatoes on their menu items.

Now, I do understand it is a franchise and normally insists their franchises use the standard products they order for all their shops, but those franchises do make exceptions to all of that in certain places like Europe; so there is no reason they can't accommodate a better quality tomato if it is grown in the immediate area and would cost them less than shipping them across country.

I normally buy (or grow) the tomatoes myself, then when I get the fast food item home I put my own tomato on it.