Pea Addiction

I don't know about the rest of you, but I sometimes go on food binges. Not (always) in a bad way (though the recent sales on ice cream at Shoprite haven't helped much).... now it's dried peas. I'm on a slight health kick again, trying to eat more like I did in China, when I was 10lbs lighter. I gained weight almost instantly upon setting foot on American soil; we have cheese everywhere, that's one problem.

I am shocked at myself, really. I always thought of peas as vegetables. My son had them every day as baby food, it was his staple for about a year. As real peas (not baby mush or soup) I rarely bought them on purpose, and I'd figure the few I'd consume here or there eating out couldn't possibly add up to much, healthwise. Well apparently I made up for it all in the past 3 days.

108 grams of protein
54 grams of fibre
63 g of fat
27 g saturated fat (they've got some veg oil and salt on them)
216 calories
...in this container, when full, of a pound of dried peas.
It'll be gone soon, there are less as I'm writing than when I took the picture 20min ago.

I just keep eating them.
They're freakin' good.
Too bad they have artificial color, I just noticed that when I took the picture.

And they were only $3/lb at a local Asian vegetable market, contrary to what some online health sites who are selling peas would have me believe ($5-10/lb). Considering I'm broke, and after all the unknown stuff I ate in China, I think the artificial color will be just fine for now.