Strange is good, but not always.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
I don’t know if I can get on board with this. Maybe the Cinnamon & Sugar. Pumpkin Pie Spice is really pushing it. Certainly NOT the White Chocolate & Peppermint.
The Huffington Post agrees with my assessment. They compared the Cinnamon & Sugar to Cinnamon Toast Crunch. They couldn’t take more than a bit of the White Chocolate & Peppermint, calling it a “horrible abomination to humanity.” These interesting chip flavors are set to debut in November.
Who am I to judge? Some of you may think items on this Friday’s “Strange But Good” list are just as revolting.
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1. Banana-Cottage Cheese Toast. With Bacon.
I mixed up some no-salt cottage cheese, 1/2 a mashed banana, cinnamon, peanut flour, and just enough almond milk to keep it from being dry. Then I slathered it on top of a toasted piece of P28 High Protein Bread… and topped it with a teeny bit of crumbled bacon.
Sweet, salty, creamy, and crunchy. This breakfast was everything I could want. Clearly this was before the great sodium cut.
Side note: one of my favorite ATL chefs, Kevin Gillespie, now has an online show. Check out “The Bacon Show.”
2. Dilly Salmon and Raspberry Salad
After the blood orange and curried salmon salad success I posted on Wednesday, I decided to keep going with the salmon combos. This salmon was pre-coked in dill and lemon, them I shredded it and mixed it with raspberries, fresh basil, and crushed Marcona almonds. Ah-mazing.
That bite from the raspberries was perfect with the salmon and the crunch factor from the almond sent me over the edge. A healthy fat win.
3. Vegan Softserve with Sriracha
While Allie was in town last weekend, we hit up Dough Bakery, one of my favorite vegan spots in Atlanta. They offer vegan softserve cups, cones, or shakes. I opted for the cone with sprinkles… and then I eyed the Sriracha left over from our biscuits.
Sweet and spicy… I wanted it to be better than it was. It needed another component. Maybe if it had been a sriracha chocolate sauce? Strange… still mostly good.
They also had zombie cupcakes. I refrained, but I had to share this picture of Halloween strange But Good-ness:
4. Semi-Homemade Hotel Breakfast
PSA: The Homewood Suites in Ft. Worth, TX doesn’t serve oatmeal everyday. They alternate them with grits (welcome to the South).
Luckily I had a BYOP (bring your own protein) back up plan. I’m surprised the TSA didn’t take my bag with all the goodies I packed.
Into my bowl went:
- 1/2 a mashed banana
- Mini-box of Cheerios
- 1 serving protein powder (pre-mixed with flax before I left)
- Sugar-free syrup (first time I’ve seen that on a b’fast bar!)
- Peanut butter
It wasn’t half bad! I wish there was cinnamon, but the stuff they had was pre-mixed with sugar. Remember to mash the banana first if you’re working with one bowl. It gets messy if you try mashing with the cereal in the bowl (not that I would know…).
My awesome boss didn’t even blink an eye. 🙂
5. Vegan PB & Zeggs*
I know I posted this with the recipe on Wednesday, but I have to give it another shout out. Since the loss of egg whites, I needed a new way to enjoy my PB& Jeggs creations.
Scrambled tofu is a great, low sodium alternative to eggs! I am so in love with my Peanut Butter and Carrot scramble (PB& Ceggs)… naturally I had to try it with zucchini too. New favorite Meal 6 is PB & Zeggs.
My only changes were to use grated zucchini in place of carrot and used almond extract in place of the maple. Topped with extra cinnamon because I’m an addict it’s good for you.
*I suppose I should name this PB & Zofu… but that just doesn’t sound as good!
Bonus Round:
This is a bonus because I’m not telling you what it is until Monday! Let’s just say it was delicious. Any guesses? 2 hints: it was for Meal 2 on Thursday…. and it contained 20g of protein. 🙂
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I’m thinking of hosting a bi-weekly (weekly?) “Strange But Good” round-up. Would anyone be interested in participating?
Would you try those funky Pringles flavors?
What’s the strangest thing you’ve eaten this week?
I’d probably try those white chocolate pringles just because I love white chocolate and peppermint but only if they were coated in white chocolate. if not, then nevermind 🙂
the Banana-Cottage Cheese Toast. With Bacon sounds like such an interesting combination!
Would that be good as a muffin? 😉
Gag to pumpkin pie spice pringles! Blech! I’m loving your salmon creations this week. Trying this one too!
Thanks! Let me know what you think – I’m convinced salmon is good with any fruit. 🙂
Yuck. NO to pumpkin pie spice pringles…and I LOVE pumpkin. NOT pringles.
Those zombie cupcakes are SO cool! And I have to admit…the bacon and cottage cheese combo actually sounds really good haha those pringles flavors though? WTF!!! Hurlicious haha
Weirdest thing I’ve eaten this week was probably hard boiled egg whites filled with peanut butter and pumpkin. It was surprisingly delicious!
Those eggs sound really good! You could probably put peanut butter and pumpkin on liver and i’d eat it.
Ick those Pringle flavors sound nasty! I am going to stick with the classic BBQ and sour cream & chive variety, thank you very much! That cereal bowl actually looks quite delicious…the only thing I’d want to add is some milk or Greek yogurt but even the way it is sounds great!
I did mix the powder with water to create a pudding-like mix. I would have died of shock if they’d had almond milk or Greek yogurt there.
i’m so on board with this. The vegan soft serve and sirachi sauce, ya, amazing. Can you please tell the PB protein bread to make GF version. They are killing me here. Major gluten envy!
rest up this weekend friend.
xxoo
I wish they would! And a low sodium version!
I bet those Pringles are strangely good. And honestly, I don’t think that I’ve eaten anything strange this week. My food has gotten very, very boring. I need to change that! I’d be interested in seeing a strange but good roundup. Not sure if I’d have anything to contribute but I think I’d like seeing what others have made.
I bet you’ll do some strange if you find that dairy is the culprit. I was most creative when I was eating vegan. If kind of forces it.
Um, no…for many reasons, but seriously, they sound gross. They should have made the pumpkin spice and the cinnamon sugar out of sweet potato. Then they would have been on to something.
My dinner last night was a salad of defrosted Asian veggies (I was working and had to think on the fly yesterday afternoon) with sriracha, nooch and coconut aminos. I was worried that mixture would be funky together, but I need the B vitamins and I really wanted the Asian flavors. Wow, that mixture totally knocked my socks off it was so good! It’s definitely happening again!
That would have been a good idea! I’d love a crispy Pringle sweet potato chip.
That SOUNDS good! I can’t believe i have yet to try coconut aminos.
Those pringles don’t appeal to me whatsoever but your other eats…that’s another story! 🙂
My life is a strange but good round-up.
So, yes.
Quote. Of. The. Day.
I’d try the cinnamon and sugar – Cinnamon Toast Crunch is one of my favourite things in existence. The other ones, I’d struggle with a bit!
Same. I’d just turn it into cereal.
i love your weird combos…they make me want to be more ballsy. sriracha on ice cream though? i don’t know.
I admit – it was a stretch.
white chocolate peppermint pringles just sound disgusting!!! Unless they taste nothing like a chip??? It’s amazing what companies are coming out with lately! Your combos on the other hand sound great! How do you come up with all these awesome recipes?!
I look in my fridge and pick the combo I’ve never tried before. 😉
NO to the Pringles! And the strangest thing I’ve eaten this week (that was VERY good btw) was a sweet potato with some PB and sea salt. Happy Friday!
That is one of my all-time fav combos!
It might be just a little to strange for me. haha My family thinks I eat “weird food” <– dad's words, but I don't know that I really create funky pairings. I'm actually really picky about my pairings… even with my beer. 😉
I’m right there with you on the beer pairings. 😉
I would totally try the pringles just because it wouldn’t hurt me (maybe just my taste buds) to try them. You never know until you try! I used to think that a lot of healthy foods were scary or sounded weird, especially vegan dishes, but was often pleasantly surprised. Now, I don’t expect these chips will be good, honestly they will probably be downright disgusting, and I wouldn’t waste my money on them, but if someone had them and wanted me to try one, I would.
I don’t know what to think of those Pringles either… but… I’ll probably try them 😉
I have thought many times how I can incorporate sriracha into an ice cream… (we really are ice cream twins…)
When you do it, I want to be a taste-tester!
Well if those pringles are anything like Cinnamon Toast Crunch they are worth a shot to me! Haven’t had that stuff in years!
You KNOW I’d be all about a weird food round-up. Breakfast this morning? Eggs…with spaghetti squash and spinach…and peanut sauce on top. I was cleaning out the fridge–is that an excuse? And why wasn’t soft serve + sriracha better?? It held such promise. And no way I’d try the white chocolate peppermint…If your product gets reviewed as an “abomination” you know you’ve done something wrong. Or horribly, horribly right…
That sounds good… strange for breakfast, but good. 🙂
How about sriracha-peanut ice cream?
NOW you’re talking! That needs to happen–and soon.
Dough would totally make us a milkshake like that! They “pinned” my ice cream on Pinterest!
Ohh, it’s going to be milkshake time after your Nov. comp!
If the Cinnamon & Sugar Pringles taste anything like CInnamon Toast Crunch, I’d be all over that, but the other two? Not so much. Hard to imagine a sweet chip, but I’m kind of a sucker for the sweet and salty combination, so maybe it would be good!
OH MY I freakin’ love the soft serve with SRIRACHA! you are so creative for this! I have never thought to do that, but I love sriracha more than anything, and put it on almost everything. I also do the same thing at hotels – mix randomness together, and the random things always come out tasting the best.
So I would def NOT try those pringles flavors.. they do nothing for me.
The weirdest thing i’ve eaten this week? hmm… well to my co workers, my oatmeal combos look ridiculous and weird, but to this HLB world, I am pretty damn normal. #sorryforbeinghealthyandeatingclean. haha.
I was devastated to learn that sriracha has so much sodium… that will be back on the menu in full force on a few weeks!
My co-workers think I’m on crack. #sorryimnotsorry
Sriracha Chocolate sauce sounds awesome – I think it would work!!And I might have to try it!!
I’m not sure if my food is weird enough for strange combos, but I love the linkup idea. Maybe I just need to be weirder. 😉
I think your food qualifies! it’s just not weird to YOU. 😉
Really? My perspective is all off. 😉
Welcome to my world. 🙂
those pringles! what?!?
I apologize that my place of employment is probably responsible for those disgusting chips. I can’t find the article anywhere, so maybe I’m imagining it, but I swore ISU’s food science created that potato process.
Also, everything you eat is awesome. I’m not even going to judge. Just put it in my mouth. (that’s what she said).
Happy friday. Crusher hug coming your way.
I had no idea ISU was to blame!
I really want a that’s what she said t-shirt.
white chocolate and peppermint would be an awesome drink… but chips?? I don’t know… I guess the weirdest thing would be a smores poptart… don’t really like poptarts anymore but forgot a snack today and they were left over from a themed “camp” day last week.
I used to love those! Someone needs to make a healthy version.
I love your strangeness! It makes me want to try new combos! I’m not so sure about those pringles though…
Pringles.. Uhhh yuck? I can’t imagine those flavors would taste good but them again what do I know
I think I will live vicariously through you.. not sure I would venture to try any of those pringles! 😉
Oh, I’m not trying them!
You won’t even believe this, but it’s SO TRUE
I heard on the radio yesterday about those chips and thought of you immediately!!!! I was like, oh Laura will FOR SURE talk about those on her blog hahahahahaha do I know my sis well or do I know her well 😉
love you
Hahaha! You do know me. 🙂 xo
I <3 cinnamon toast crunch but those pringles look foul. Your strange but good things blow me out of the water! I'd participate, but the strangest thing I'll eat today is a Kevita!
Wow- those pringles flavors sound awful. I love your strange but good combos… you’re so much more daring than I am. Hmm, does the last meal have tuna in it?
You’re good! Right! 🙂
My mom had heard about the pumpkin pringles and we were talking about it at dinner last night. None of us thought we could get behind those and that was before we even knew about the other flavors. No.thank.you!
Ha ha. I could not get on board with those pringles! Sounds too weird. Funny we both posted about pumpkin spice things;)
I’m down for all your combos though! Except for bacon…I’m just not a fan of that stuff for some reason.
Bacon seems to be a love-hate thing for most people.
I saw those on the today show and was like whoa, pringles what are you thinking? pumpkin I get but chocolate chip… way too far. when I want salt, i want salt not sweet.
I like sweet and salty, but I dunno…. I really like Ruffles dipped in dark chocolate.
Speaking of strange but good, I am eating hummus made with peas instead of chickpeas right now. Yum.
It is sad to me that someone spent time, money and effort on those Pringles creations. Pringles are just weird anyway, but those are really unfortunate.
Where do you buy your no sodium cottage cheese?
I love making hummus with alternative beans/peas!
I get it at my farmer’s market, but I can sometimes find it at Publix too.
Those Pringles are insane! 😐 My god, do they have to go there in order to sell products? Kinda sad… lol
Dilly Salmon and Raspberry Salad = I’ve made that before too 😀 haha! Love the combo! As for the last picture… it looks like a arugula apple tuna salad to me 😉 which in that case would be one of my favorite salads and regular served dish at my house 😉
BTW, hot sauce on your ice cream?! Oh my… I’m a hot sauce kinda girl, but even I would not go there 😉 maybe I should though 😀 Haha!
Right-o! Except it also had a curry sauce. 🙂 I love how seafood goes so well with fruit!
It sounds like we have similar palates – you should try it!
Haha WHAT! Those Pringles flavors are too weird…I agree, MAYBE the cinnamon sugar but otherwise? I definitely don’t think I could get on board.
I don’t eat too many “strange but good” combos but I’d definitely be interested in reading them if you did that feature!
I totally support the use of Sriracha on everything, sweet or savory! Love that!
I used to be totally addicted to the pizza flavored Pringles when I was in high school, so I’m having a hard time seeing the sweet versions and not gagging! Haha! I might try the pumpkin spice and the cinnamon sugar, but I’m not a big fan of peppermint…and in a chip? That’s just weird!
Mmm, chocolate sriracha! I could get on board with that!
I love that your boss didn’t even bat an eye with your breakfast bowl! Haha! One thing I DON’T miss about working on days is having to explain my lunch to coworkers in the break room…half the time, they didn’t know what a certain ingredient was (like tempeh or nutritional yeast) so I always hated whenever someone asked!
I’ve got to try the tofu version of pb & eggs…hmm, maybe we could call it pb & tofeggs? Nah, that sounds like “toe figs” which makes me think of some weird foot fetish thing…and now I want to gag! X-P
I’m thinking the bonus round is some sort of waldorf salad variation…but it can’t be chicken…that’s not weird enough for you…plus I know how it skeeves you out. Gonna go with tuna on this one…tuna, Greek yogurt, and apples? I’d eat it!
I’m the same way with peppermint. Mint-flavored anything has to be REALLY good for me to like it.
I had to quit eating lunch with my co-workers. I don’t like feeling uncomfortable about my food! It’s healthy, it makes me feel good, and I think it’s tasty. #mindyourbusiness
No toe figs. That makes me think of toe jelly, which is what my dad called the fuzzies from new socks that get stuck between your toes. *gag*
Close! Curry, not greek. 🙂
You know I would try those pringle flavors LOL!!! I like your breakfast of Cheerios. Pretty legit!
This just made me think… what if Cheerios make a pumpkin flavor? Honey Nut Pumpkin-os? Mmmmm!
That hotel breakfast is exactly what my snacks would often be back home in Australia. I never ate cereal with straight (soy) milk, but thickly mixed up with nut butters and protein/coconut flours and some sort of liquid. SO MUCH GOODNESS.
I think that salad looks great!
Again, I wonder if I’m weird since I don’t think half of those mentioned above are weird?! Haha 😛 Especially banana mush cereal- got a black banana, you betcha it’ll be a banana mush morning!
That just means we’d get along very well. 🙂
i loooooove raspberry with salmon as a combo. yum yum yum!
Again with those beautiful raspberries. You’re making me hungry.
By the way, I love chips and have eaten some strange flavors (dill pickle, ketchup), but those Pringles sound foul. Yuck.
I actually do like dill chips…
You and me both.
Yes please on the strange but good. I need a schedule of posts to help me get my groove back!! And I really want to share the stuff I’ve been eating.
Also Big Gay Ice Cream here in NYC has a curry toasted coconut cone as well as toppings like Sriracha and wasabi pea dust
I have read so much about Big Gay Ice Cream. That flavor sounds divine – and I love the wasabi dust idea!