So I miss food, not as much as I used to, or at least as I did the first couple of weeks, I think my taste buds are starting to forget the great food from home. Three Cheese Stuffed Chicken, homemade pesto sause, party mashed potatoes, mom’s meat sauce, lagsana, white chicken chili, steak….Ok maybe not. I do miss food, I enjoy food, I enjoy cooking, and baking and that has been hard because I can’t cook, I don’t even have a microwave to heat anything up in. Sad times!
Everyone tells me how lucky I am to be at Camp Phoenix, it has the best DFAC (dining facilities) in the army. “They have Steak and Crab night.” But I’m not a big sea food fan, now when I can see the sea, I will eat sea food, tends to be much better, but otherwise it is just not all that appealing to me. And I love steak, but I like a steak cooked just right with the right seasonings on it, you know the kind juicy with a warm pink middle ummm makes my mouth water. And mass cooked steak just doesn’t cut it for me. So, surf and turf night doesn’t have the same appeal to me as it does to others, at least not right now. Now I mean absolutely no disrespect, nothing I have eaten has tasted bad, but I’m just not a dinning hall kind of gal. When I am walking through the line and have to point to what I want things just don’t look appetizing to me, plus all the smells run together and that doesn’t help me either especially if there is an overwhelming fish smell.
Funny thing, growing up I had this friend who was a picky eater and she used to have the strangest combination of things on her plate I use to always wonder how can she eat only that. Now, I have several times looked at my dinner and thought of her. Don’t get me wrong I have found kind of my pattern. On Sunday’s they have Mexican, which means in the evenings they have quesadillas which I enjoy. Monday’s I often have a hot dog for lunch and they make grilled chicken breast for dinner so I get one and then make a grilled chicken salad, (they always have hot dog’s hamburgers, and grilled cheese, which I fall back on during the week some.) Tuesdays in the center they have baked potatoes so for lunch and dinner I eat that, and so on. I have found, for the most part, things I can enjoy, and one thing I am really enjoying is I eat the proper portions, I don’t have a lot of outside influence and a junk food around so I have lost some weight.
The dining facility here is very good, I’m just not a dining hall kind of gal. I sure do miss GREAT FOOD and I miss cooking, I really miss the ability to cook even the simple stuff. I am so thankful I have been able to work on my portion sizes though it is amazing the difference it makes when you are getting your own, and you don’t have to worry about what happens to the rest of the food because there are a thousand other people that are still going to eat it. Don’t get me wrong some people come on deployment and they gain weight, that might be due to the Baskin Robin’s Ice cream and the desserts they serve. I have figured this one out too. I allow myself ice cream twice a week or so, days that I am not a huge fan of what’s on the menu, and I don’t sit in the same room as the dessert table, that way I don’t even see it. So all that to say the food I’m sure is great just not really my cup of tea, I am really looking forward to some home cooked meals or restaurant cooked meals too for that matter.
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