The Monday after a July 4th weekend is perfect for a picture-themed post.
We had a great, but exhausting time spending two nights at G-Ma’s for the first time. After making it back home on Sunday, Going Mom and I ran around doing chores and tending to the yard.
I will have a recap of the weekend up soon, but in the meantime, here are several pictures of Avery’s cute, sometimes eerie, facial expressions I’ve been able to snap a shot of.
Hope everyone has a great day and start to a new week!
Have you ever had a McGriddle breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s? The soft maple-flavored pancake “buns” sandwiching crispy bacon or sausage, egg and cheese creates a sweet and savory fast food breakfast.
Mmm, I really enjoyed these sandwiches back in my “ignorant to how food is made” days. Now…not so much.
Glad I’m free from food ignorance now, and can see right through the “M” branded griddle cakes stuffed with fluffy egg and crispy bacon. I only see low-quality, non-nutritional ingredients like enriched flour, chemicals created in a lab to obtain that certain “flavors”, and cheese that is anything but.
Starting from the top, lets break down the ingredients in one of these sandwiches from McD’s. This info comes right from their site here.
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| Who brands their buns anyway? |
One Bacon, Egg, and Cheese McGriddle (source) packs a whopping 420 calorie handheld heart attack served neatly in colored paper wrap. You get a substantial (not in a good way) 18g of fat, 240mg of cholesterol, 1110mg of sodium, 2g fiber, and 15g of sugar.
Still sound good? Lets keep going….
The top-level ingredients for a Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® are:
Griddle Cakes, Folded Egg, Pasteurized Process American Cheese, Bacon, Liquid Margarine
Seems somewhat safe, but dig deeper and we find the Griddle Cakes have a little more than you or I would use to make pancakes:
Water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, dextrose, palm oil, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), brown sugar, salt, soybean oil, rice flour, whey powder, modified tapioca starch, buttermilk powder, caramel color, natural (dairy and botanical source) and artificial flavors, soy lecithin, corn oil (processing aid).
Surely there’s nothing in the Folded Egg besides “egg”….right?….wrong:
Pasteurized whole eggs, food starch-modified, soybean oil, natural flavors (botanical source), sodium acid pyrophosphate, carrageenan, flavor enhancer [salt, maltodextrin, natural flavor (plant source), spices, herb, turmeric (color)], monosodium phosphate, citric acid, soy lecithin (release agent).
And the topping on (and in) the “cake” is Liquid Margarine:
Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).
This, among numerous other reasons, is why I happily prepare my own food at home!
My version is actually what you would expect an egg sandwich with pancake buns to be; two pancakes with a cooked egg in the middle. Wow, shocker!! I made a batch of coconut flour protein pancakes from ProteinPOW.com for the “buns”, but you can use your favorite pancake recipe if you choose.
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| The fluffy white one was obviously my egg-cellent first choice. |
For the egg, I had this bright idea to microwave it in a small, circular glass dish to make the perfect round egg patty.
As you can see, I did this 4 times, and the egg just expanded and wrinkled into a brain-like resemblance. #FoodieFail.
I made do with the best rounded one of the bunch and just saved the other eggs to put on salad. Since my pancakes were too big, I trimmed around them a little; not necessary, but I wanted to make it look good!
Topped with a drizzle of raw, local honey, sprinkle of cayenne, and dash of pepper, this was a delectably sweet and spicy sandwich I devoured immediately after the last picture; pancake trimmings included.
I was pumped when the idea to make this sandwich came to mind, and I’m glad I did. These non-McGriddles are a delightful (and healthy) way to start or end the day. Not to mention they can be fun to make with kids!
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| I think it’s smiling at me… |
My favorite breakfast on the weekends would be a scrambled egg sandwich with ketchup that my mom would make, and I could eat several! Did I mention I was a heavy boy? I don’t have ketchup anymore, but salsa suits me just fine and I don’t feel like I’ve given up anything!
Have you ever made your own fast food version into something healthier?
Do you like egg sandwiches with ketchup?
Read more: http://www.dadcreek.com/news/who-needs-a-gym-fitfamilyfriday/
Hey there! How’s it going? Hope your weekend is off to a great start!
We are hanging at G-Ma’s house for a second night, and enjoying each other’s company as Avery keeps everyone entertained. Now that she’s crawling, things are definitely more interesting, and it’s hard to keep up with this girl! What happens when they start walking?
Maybe we should look into those leash and harness contraptions….
The other day, while I was in my home inside our home, the kitchen, Avery wanted to give a pictorial tour of our kitchen and dining area. I told her no at first, but then she turned on her super cuteness and I caved…
And so the tour ensued. Enjoy!
Oh, hi there, welcome to our kitchen! As you can see, behind me is the fridge and freezer. It’s nice and silvery; perfect to see my fingerprints on!
And right here is the oven, where Daddy does his baking and roasts a lot of vegetables.
It’s also silv…..oh hey, look, I can see myself!
Pretty cool, I can see other things too. So shiny….
Huh? Oh yeah, the tour. Sorry, I love seeing myself.
And this right here, is one of our two bar stools for the island. Mommy sometimes holds me as she tries to eat, but I play a game called “grab everything and shake it while making your body go straight”. So far, I’m winning.
I also like to practice pulling myself up on it like this…
But I’ll save that for later, let’s move on to the dining room.
Here is our dining room. This is where we sit down to eat at night and I…..oh, it’s Lou, our fat cat.
Let me just go try and grab some of his hair out really fast.
Nope, wait, stay right there, Lou.
There you go, hold that tail still and I’ll be right there.
Well crap, he didn’t listen.
If I can just make it over this electric cord to Lou…
Oh, and here we are back at the start. I guess Daddy didn’t want me giving any more of the tour.
Thanks for visiting, that makes me happy. Until next time, hope you have a great weekend!
