Friday 5: Food for getting in shape

Happy Friday, which is also National Sticky Bun Day (mmm!) and National Grain-Free Day. I should tell Mom that, as she adheres to a gluten-free diet.

Keeping it short today, as I’m freaking tired of sitting at a computer. One of the drawbacks of working from home is that once I reach the end of the workday, I don’t want to sit in my office anymore.

The Friday 5 theme this week is Food for getting in shape. WM is playing along this week and you will witness us become more and more unhinged as we continue to slog through our self-imposed caloric deficit. It’s a successful diet so far, even though progress is slow. (ah, aging)

1. What’s your favorite animal-shaped food?
   Me: Goldfish crackers! I love cheese flavor and pizza flavor the most.
   WM: Dino Nuggets – all of the goodness of chicken nuggets with paleontology.
   
2. What’s your favorite cylinder- or tube-shaped food?
   Me: Manicotti. Or a cannoli. Oooo! Baked ziti? The Italians do tube-shaped food well.
   WM: A churro. It’s a tube!
   Me: Ole!
   
3. What’s your favorite disc-shaped food?
   Me: Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza. It’s a legend, it’s part of my life. I’m probably .0001% Mexican Pizza.
   WM: Apple pie. I’ve reached the age where I’d select pie over cake. But the trouble with pie is that pie has to be good. Middling cake is better than middling pie. But when pie is great, it trumps (me: throws salt over shoulder) everything.
   
4. What’s your favorite sphere-shaped food?
   Me: Meatballs! The Italians do sphere-shaped food well.
   WM: Scooped ice cream. Rocky road. Or the scoops on a banana split.
   
5. What’s your favorite triangle-shaped food?
   Me: You know me. You know me! It’s Cool Ranch Doritos. If’ I’m .0001% Mexican Pizza, I’m 4% Doritos. A serving is 160 calories so I still have some from time to time with lunch, but the serving size is pretty miserly.
   WM: Pizza. The Italians do triangle-shaped food well. But I would also say apple turnovers.
   Me: Which are really small pies!
   

Darn it I’m hungry. If I don’t think of anything else to write before Monday, have a fabulous weekend!