Burnt Offerings ...

My husband is a closet "Tim" type from the television show with Tim Allen, you know, the kind that likes to soup up every gadget so that it has the most power and performs the fastest.

We have a 1200 watt microwave. It can boil a cup of water well under a minute. The last thing he wants to do is wait a second longer for something to heat or thaw ... the faster the better.

Well, Jenny Craig's cuisine is designed with cook times for tradtional microwaves and for people who follow the directions on packaging. Most microwaveable things are. SOME times (rarely) we will find directions for commercial grade microwaves, like ours, usually on items that may be sold in convenience stores ... which, of course, does not apply to Jenny food. I've been having to reduce the power of the microwave by 20% in order to cook my meals and follow the packaging directions. Usually this works but I have had some entrees come out a little over-cooked or dry.

This morning, I neglected to set the power back 20%.  I cooked my JC entree (the silver dollar pancakes and sausage) for the minimum time. It was BURNED to CHARCOAL.  I'm not kidding. The sausage patty would easily have passed for a brickette. The little pancakes were all clumped together and charred ... impossible to separate.

SO, I got to have a fruit and a milk serving for breakfast and no entree.
I'm on the 1200 calorie plan. So I will be missing about 1/6 of my total
calories for the day because I burned them to a crisp in our hum-dinger
of a super-charged microwave. I've been mad all day and HUNGRY thanks
to this stupid thing.

How much you wanna bet my weight won't go down either ...