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I’ve recently had this huge urge to go to KFC. I remember going there with my family as a kid. We’d order a huge bucket of chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits with packets of yellow died oil that hinted a buttery flavor, and potato salad. The thought of my childhood dinner passes through my mind as see KFC from the freeway exit I take to get home each day. Since I haven’t been there in years, I’m not sure what I’d order. What if the chicken is different now? What if it’s greasier than I remember? Do I have to order an entire bucket of chicken or can I just get a piece or two? Because these questions pass through my mind and I know the stuff is loaded with awful additives and more fat than Carnie Wilson in 1993, I part ways with my appetence and forget about it until I exit the freeway the next day. Thanks to blogger Weighty Matters, he’s supplied some dry-heaving worthy facts about KFC’s chicken. Here’s what he found:

The ingredients themselves are a veritable witch’s brew of preservatives and items meant to improve things like the mouthfeel of food with such things as sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium peroxide, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, carrageenan and many more.The best part though is the “chicken”. Why is the word chicken in quotations?How ’bout if I told you that 43% of the ingredient known as chicken in KFC’s chicken strip wasn’t chicken?What is it?I’ll let the Colonel explain,
“Chicken Breast Strips Containing up to 43% of a Solution of: Water, Seasoning (Soy Protein Concentrate, Salt, Rice Starch, Carrageenan, Dextrose, Onion Powder, Dehydrated Chicken Broth, Maltodextrin, Spice Extractives), Sodium Phosphate. Breaded with: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Garlic Powder, Citric Acid, Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Natural Flavor, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, Wit Not More Than 2% Calcium Silicate Added as an Anti Caking Agent.

Bucket of chicken anyone?

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Here’s a healthy alternative you can make at home. This receipe is from Kraft and is so simple and deeelicious! Even the kids will like it!

Crispy Baked Pesto Chicken

4 small boneless skinless chicken breast halves (1 lb.)
1 pkt. SHAKE ‘N BAKE Original Chicken Seasoned Coating Mix
2 Tbsp. pesto
1/4 cup KRAFT Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
PREHEAT oven to 400ºF. Coat chicken with coating mix. Place in 8-inch square baking dish.
BAKE 20 min. or until chicken is cooked through (165ºF).
TOP chicken with pesto; sprinkle with cheese. Bake an additional 5 min. or until cheese is melted and lightly browned.

I googled “old school cell phones”, and this picture among other over sized, 5 pound boxes of metal appeared. I laughed very hard.

Then I came across a picture of my very first cell phone! And I laughed again. I remember I bought a black leather case for it that covered the whole thing. It even had a solid leather flap that was hinged with thread on one side and had Velcro on the other so when I wasn’t using the phone to call my parents home number or calculating how much my next pay check would be, I could protect my super cool phone.

Gotta go, my cell is ringing!

I have an addiction to Chipotle’s chicken burrito. They are so tasty, satisfying, and good. I went there yesterday for lunch and questioned going again today. Instead, I decided not to. I don’t want to walk in and have the employees say, “Hi, girl who comes in everyday! Will you be having the usual?”

My “usual” starts with a 12-inch flour tortilla put in a steamer for a few seconds. If Williams Sonoma ever decides to carry those steamer things, I’m buying one. Once the tortilla is hot and ready for filling, a spoonful of cilantro-lime rice is neatly piled in the center of the tortilla. Next, a generous serving of pinto or black beans is piled neatly next to the rice. I usually go pinto, but sometimes if I’m feeling exceptionally healthy, I’ll opt for black beans. Next goes on the chicken which hints a smoky, spicy chipotle flavor. By the way, these aren’t just any chickens; Chipotle uses only naturally raised chickens. This means the chickens were never given antibiotics and were vegetarian fed. Another sidebar note, I’ve questioned becoming vegetarian because if I see a piece of meat in my food that has fat, bones or veins, I just can’t finish it. Well, if it’s in my burrito, I just pick out the nasty looking piece of chicken and move on without analyzing each piece of naturally grown chicken. Again, back to my burrito…there are four choices for salsa. I always choose the fresh tomato salsa because I love the fresh chopped tomatoes, onions, cilantro and jalapeños. If you aren’t already salivating, the next two ingredients will make you run out and order this burrito. To compliment the savory rice, fantastic beans, tender, flavorful chicken and juicy salsa are sour cream and cheese! Lastly, all of this south of the border goodness is wrapped up in a shiny piece of foil and is ready to be devoured or consumed savagely, but not in the restaurant because that would be just downright rude.

For kicks, next time I go to Chipotle, I’m going to tell Raul (the tortilla steamer guy), I’ll have the usual. I wonder if he’ll know my burrito.

The brand of deodorant I wear and have worn for years is Secret. Turns out, my Secret is not much of a secret at all!It all started two weeks ago. It was a typical morning: reluctantly get out of bed, turn on the shower, get in the shower, dry off, put on clothes, brush teeth, put on deodorant…wait, what’s that on my deodorant? Two large hairs? Ewww, two men’s armpit hairs? Uh gross, okay, but I still need the stuff, so I plucked the hairs out of the deodorant, mumbled to K-Man that there were two gross hairs in my deodorant, put the stuff on and went on with my morning.

Saturday morning, K-Man was getting ready and he noticed that my deodorant was “Spanish Rose” scent.