I’m mid-way through my second day of using Nutri-System. The news is not good.
Day 1 Breakfast: Cereal. It came in a small envelope that reminded me of the envelopes of seeds that you buy at Home Depot. It was quite small. Certainly not a complete serving. It tasted okay, though. And since portion-control is a major issue, I figured it was good to make myself get accustomed to eating smaller portions of food. So the small amount didn’t bother me.
Day 1 Lunch: Black Beans and Rice. It came in a styrofoam cup that I added boiling water to and let stand for a few minutes. It looked horrible - black gunky paste. However, it actually tasted okay. So it ended up being better than I had anticipated.
Day 1 Dinner: Thick crust pizza. I love pizza, and I figured it would be difficult to mess it up completely, and so I ordered a bunch of these for this month trial. The crust was maybe 4-5 inches across. Certainly much smaller than any individual pizza I’d ever seen. But I was learning portion control - right! I could handle it. It had a little package of pizza sauce - about the size of a ketchup packet. And there was a very small packet of grated cheese. I put a couple slices of a fresh tomato on top and popped it in the oven. With a salad on the side, it wasn’t bad.
Day 1 Dessert: A chocolate/caramel bar. It tasted like a vitamin bar - kinda pasty with a chalky aftertaste. Definitely NOT something I would choose to eat.
None of the food could even remotely be described as “delicious” but none of it was horrible either - although that chocolate/caramel bar came closs. It was an okay day. One day down - 34 to go.
Today is Day 2. Here’s how it has gone so far.
It’s Sunshine’s 5th birthday, and so we were up at dawn (well - a little before 7 A.M.anyway) to go to Kroger to get some balloons to take over to Sunshine’s house and tie on the mailbox. Sunshine met us at the door, and we gave her the balloons and birthday cards from us and from Grandma Ruth. She loved them. Then RT wanted to go by Panera Bread for breakfast.
Day 2 Breakfast: I did pretty well for my first dining out experience while on NutriSystem. I didn’t get my usual sweet bagel and cream cheese. Instead I got one of their new egg sandwiches. It was truly delicious and I savored every bite. I figure my breakfast took up two protein servings for the day - plus bread and fat. So I blew some of my allowances with that one breakfast. However, it was worth it.
Day 2 Lunch: I hurried with all my errands and got home around 1:00. I had eaten an apple on my way home for a snack. I decided to try the pasta/parmesan/broccoli lunch. Again, it was a styrofoam cup that I added boiling water to. The “broccoli” were a few tiny specks of green mixed in with the pasta. The “parmesan” was apparently part of the sauce that in no way resembled a cream sauce. I managed a few bites, but it was truly inedible. I checked the calorie total on the package - then threw it away and ate a carton of yogurt that had about the same number of calories. NutriSystem should be shot for selling a dish as awful as that pasta dish. Yuck!
So that’s where I am right now. If you decide to order NutriSystem, do NOT order the pasta/parmesan/broccoli dish. It is beyond awful.
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