Literally, I only eat carbs.

It was back to the old grind, brotein bar speaking. To ease the transition, I added half of a bagel to my breakfast.

For lunch, my good friend Scott decided to save my gains by donating a Quest Bar to TheAverageBro's Save-The-Gains Foundation.

This one was also a brotein fiber bar, so I was curious to see how it stacked up against the others I had recently tried.

Wait, there it is! There's that same texture that we know and love (hate). But then there was the taste. It tasted so good. This one was by far the best tasting brotein fiber bar I've ever had. The unfortunate thing is that these bars are like $2-3 per bar, which is way more than the others. So again, I'll be sticking with Old Faithful for the time being:

And that's exactly what I did for my mid-afternoon snack.

Still good!

For dinner, we had a lot of leftover fried rice, so I had some. I supplemented it with some more carbs.

Cheesy carbs...

...and salty carbs.

And for dessert, we had some more leftover rice. Enter...

...sweet carbs.

Good day.

Do we have enough rice??

Today was another day of adventure and exploration, but instead of fiber bars, I would be delving into a new flavor of brotein bar. Without the fiber, I had really high hopes for this one. It was the same brand, but it was Chocolate Salted Caramel flavor!

Just take a look at the beauty of this bar:

One of my favorite parts about my regular bar, the Chocolate Peanut Caramel, is the "caramel" top layer. I was really hoping this had one of those, too. It did!!

I can safely say that this is the best brotein bar I've ever had, taste wise. And with 19 grams of brotein and only 200 calories, it really is the best brotein bar ever in every way. Unfortunately, they only sell these by the bar instead of in 12 packs, so they are not nearly as economical as the Chocolate Peanut Caramel bars, so I'll stick with those for now. And it's not like those are bad or anything.

With that groundbreaking discovery out of the way, I finished up my day of school and then headed home. We decided to make some fried rice. We had never made it before, so let's see how it went.

We started off with some veggies...

...and then added some chicken and a little bit of rice.

After the addition of some soy sauce, it began to look like fried rice.

And I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but this is a pretty big pan, and it's almost overflowing with rice. What an awesome sight!

I got a plate and got a little bit of chicken fried rice.

And then I got some more!

This fried rice was excellent. I'm sure we could adjust our technique a little to improve the texture, but it tasted so good.

And since having just fried rice for dinner still isn't enough rice, we made some rice pudding for dessert.

The addition of the raisins serves not only to increase the aesthetic qualities of the rice pudding, but also to add textural interest and more depth of flavor.

This was also excellent. With our rice-based dinner and rice-based dessert, I concluded that I could live on a diet of predominantly rice. CARBS for YEARS!

Fiber for DAYS!!

Today was a day destined for adventure and experimentation. Today I would be sampling the brotein fiber bars I had previously discovered. I'll say that I've had a few brotein fiber bars in the past, and they're usually very tough and taste a lot like dirt or something else unpleasant and not tounge-friendly. That being said, I had high hopes for these new ones since they were the same brand as my beloved Chocolate Peanut Caramel brotein bars. Fingers crossed, I dove in to the first one. 

The first one was Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough flavor. As I unwrapped it, my heart sank just a little. I could immediately tell by the shiny and extruded-looking appearance that this bar would have a similar texture to the others I've tried.

Fortunately, though, it tasted a lot better! Now, I think it's darn near impossible to make anything with 15 grams of fiber taste as good as something with no fiber, but this bar was definitely encouraging. It was tough, but it tasted reasonably good.

A few hours later, I had the other brotein fiber bar for lunch. This one was Cookies and Cream flavored.

Again, the texture remained the common denominator. But what about the taste?

This one was a little tricky. At first taste, I didn't like this one as much as the first one. I was sure of that. But as I continued eating the bar, the taste, like the Grinch's heart, grew on me slowly. It grew so much that by the time I had almost finished the bar, I actually preferred it over the first one. It was weird, but both of these bars gave me hope that not all fiber-dense foods must taste like dirt.

And so, with my daily fiber quota filled by two simple bars, I went home and had some non-fibrous dinner. Continuing with my current kick, I had some ramen...

...and some macaroni and cheese.

Oh, I also had some more of that chicken and noodles, too.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! You know what that means! HALF PRICE BURRITOS AT CHIPOTLE!!!

But first, muffin. 

And milk.

After class, I went and checked out the selection of brotein fiber bars at HyVee. I was surprised to see that the same brand as my regular brotein bars also made brotein fiber bars. I grabbed a couple different flavors, along with a new flavor of brotein bar.

I'm not going to try them until tomorrow, though.

That's because tonight we have unfinished business. We have to get to Chipotle and get those cheap "Booritos!" But in order to do that, Sidney and I had to don our costumes. Mine started of like this:

And we ended up looking like this:

Seriously, I think this is my favorite costume ever. I was able to wear real clothes and still pull off Fred. Sidney made my ascot, as well as her dress and ascot thingie. Looking quite the part, we (as Fred and Daphne) headed to Chipotle. This is the scene we walked into:

The line was wrapped completely around the inside of the place, and soon after we got there it was extending out the door. But after about 30 minutes and no less than 6 complements and one photo op, we had our burritos!

I got chorizo along with the usual brown rice, black beans, fajita vegetables, medium salsa, sour cream, cheese, and a little bit of lettuce.

But our night of foodventures was not over yet! We drove to the nearest Krispy Kreme where the promotion is a free doughnut on Halloween if you show up in costume.

We showed up as such, and we were rewarded as such.

I got a Bavarian Cream filled doughnut and Sidney got one with sprinkles. It was actually quite weird walking into the place, getting handed two doughnuts, and then walking straight back out. I'm sure I could get used to it, though! But I guess I'll have to wait another year.

After our doughnuts, I figured that the damage had already been done. A caramel pretzel brownie had caught my eye, so I let it catch my mouth.

I had some milk to wash it down.

And since now the damage had really been done, I figured there was no harm in eating, say, a cookie.

That's one THICK cookie!

Happy Halloween!

Amusing Burgers

It was a Sunday, so my brotein bar breakfast flew in the face of the freshly baked cinnamon rolls that were to be sold at the store. It's always tough dealing with this very enticing forbidden fruit. 

Luckily for me, though, there was a tiny scrap of cinnamon roll that I was allowed to eat. All was not lost.

Sidney and I then headed to Worlds of Fun. Today was the last day of the year, so we though we'd go and check out a few things.  First on our list of things to check out was the Vittle Griddle. Not just any old food stand at an amusement park, the Vittle Griddle is actually run by LC's Hamburgers. LC's has long been my favorite burger place, so I was curious to compare the quality of their amusement park version.

On first glance, things aren't looking too bad.

The cheese wasn't really melted, but there were hints of that wonderful LC's taste.

It definitely wasn't as good as a burger from the actual restaurant, but then again I didn't really expect it to be. It would a little unfair to expect them to cook every burger fresh when so many people are in line. I would, however, still rate this as above average for amusement park food.

We also got some bacon cheese fries, which were decent.

When we got back home, I had some chicken and noodles just to keep the tank topped off.