Butter Chicken at Subway

Exciting news for sub lovers - Starting tomorrow, Monday April 4th, Subway will be launching their new butter chicken sub, for a limited time! 

Christopher and I never eat at fast food burger joints, but we do like subs, and will grab Subway if we need a quick meal.  He usually orders the sweet onion chicken teriyaki, and I go with the chicken and bacon ranch melt, or turkey.  However, thanks to the kind people at Subway, we got to try the butter chicken sub before it hit the menu, and this might be our new fave. 

As you all know, we love Indian food around here, and butter chicken is a classic Indian dish.  We're always drawn to stronger, bold flavours.  Subway's butter chicken has a lot of flavour, with the perfect touch of spice.  What we especially love is that it is free from artificial colours, flavours and preservatives.

The butter chicken sub is made with all white meat, and a butter chicken sauce that is made with real cardamom, coriander, cinnamon, red pepper, and ginger spices.  Top that with your favourite veggies and cheese, and you've got yourself a pretty tasty sandwich.

Add a little flavour to your Monday and grab yourself a butter chicken sub for lunch. 

 Do you like butter chicken?

Full disclosure:  Subway provided me with the sub and a package of goodies free of charge, but I was under no obligation to reciprocate with publicity or post about the sub.  All opinions are my own.

A lot of bloggers are doing a vegan for a day thing today - but I was totally unprepared and low on groceries ... so I WILL do this, but it will have to be another day in the near future! I definitely do want to try it out.

I don't have my sore throat anymore, but I am really stuffed up. I bought some homeopathic cough and cold pills because they worked wonders the last time I had a cold. Being around so many kids is tough on the immune system!!

Breakfast today was the usual GM (gotta keep H1N1 at bay :-):



(I had to use an old pic, because I chugged this so quickly that I completely forgot to snap a pick).

I didn't have much of an appetite today so I didn't anything else until lunch. For lunch I ran out to Subway and got a 6" turkey sub with veggies, cheese, and honey mustard:



I came home from work to the smell of a cooked dinner! Hubby made pulled pork (he threw it together in the slow-cooker this morning). We had roasted veggies on the side.









I am going to grab a snack, and watch survivor! As many of you know - I am a reality junkie!

What is your favourite "reality" show?

Brain Dead ... Or Not?

Okay, there are reasons to believe that I have gone brain dead today.

Reason #1 - I totally thought that I took pictures of my packed lunch before leaving for work this morning ... but my camera will tell you a different story.

Reason #2 - I swear I put my little camera into my purse to take a pic of my dinner before my exam. But my purse would tell you a different story - and so would the camera sitting on my desk at home.

Needless to say, I only have food pics from the morning. But, I will still share what I ate.

Breakfast was my usual GM with 1 cup of this:



Some lightly steamed spinach:



A nanner:

1 T of Amazing Grass powder:



1 scoop of Chia Seeds:



1 T of almond butter:



It looked like it always does when it was done:



Mid-morning I had a glo-bar:



Lunch was a lean cuisine, 1 babybel cheese, and vanilla yogurt with blueberries.

Dinner was Subway (a 6" sub with chicken, lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, cheese, olives, and fat free dressing). I also had a couple little bites of leftover ham.

Now, there is one reason to believe I have NOT gone brain dead.

Reason #1 - I stared a class (the History of Psychology) in February as a correspondence class, as it was not offered at a time I could take at my U. I had to read 17 very detailed chapters, write 6 quizzes and a final exam that consisted of 100 m/c questions taken from anything in the most detailed 17 chapters I have ever encountered in 10 years of university. I slacked, and procrastinated like I have never done before and as of yesterday still had 6 chapters to read and 3 quizzes to write!! I didn't read the 6 chapters, as I didn't have time, and instead just skimmed to find the answers to the online quizzes. (The quizzes were open book - but the final was not - I had to go somewhere to write it).

I had read the other chapters many months ago, and had no time to look them over. So I went to the final exam in panic mode - stressed to the max, as passing this exam was crucial.

The classroom manual says that the exam can be completed in 90 minutes, but 2 hours are allotted in which you can complete the online exam.

Well, I pretty much had to guess (or so I thought I was guessing) on all the questions, and ended up finishing in 17 minutes because I wasn't even really reading the questions, because I didn't know anything! When I left I wanted to cry. This final is worth 70% of my grade!!

I drove home extremely upset ... but then I checked my grade online (it was an online test so the marks are up right away). Some how, by a miracle, I got 78 questions right out of the possible 100 m/c!!!!! This is definitely the lowest mark I have ever gotten on a test ... but I will SO take it!!!!!!!!! I don't know how I did this - I think my subconscious knows more than I do, and wrote the test for me. Overall in the class I ended up with an 85%. Not bad.

After all the excitement of this evening, I just want to crash on the couch and watch trashy TV. And eat a snack.

What do you snack on at night?
(I will let you know tomorrow what I end up having)

Wednesday's Eats and Running Hiatus

This morning I woke up craving a toasted tomato sandwich for breakfast.
Again today, I wasn't very hungry - but I knew I needed something to keep me satisfied until lunch.

Unfortunately this sandwich didn't cut it, and I was ready to gnaw my arm off by about 9:15. Lovely. Too bad I forgot to bring a snack to work.

Lunch today was a quick "Mr. Sub" meal (like Subway for all the American readers!) I had:

• Small multi-grain grilled chicken sub with lettuce, tomato, green and black olives, mushrooms, banana peppers, and buffalo sauce
• 1/2 a small bowl of broccoli cheddar soup (it was greasy and nasty so I tossed it pretty quickly)

Dinner was some turkey noodle soup, a pear, and some Mary's organic crackers with light herb and garlic cream cheese.



My snack tonight was a packet of Amazing Grass's Chocolate GREEN Superfood mixed with 1/2 cup source vanilla yogurt, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond breeze, and a banana:





Mmmm, Slime.

You may have noticed that I have not been talking about my running much in the last few weeks. I have NOT given up ... but I have had to take a short hiatus due to the crap weather in Saskatchewan. We have had rain, ice, snow, cold - you name it. The hubby and I are currently looking for a gym with a track that we can join so that I can continue to train. I hope to get back at it ASAP so that I don't lose any progress I have made.

I am off to enjoy the a few minutes of relaxation in front of the TV with the hubby!

Today is my last day of being a 26 year old - Eeeeeeek!
See you all tomorrow for my B-Day and a special dinner out with the hubby!
The real celebration (with friends) will be Saturday night!

How do you celebrate your b-day?