Who Cares, It's FRIDAY!!!

Dude! For real? This week was nutzo freako. But now it's O-V-E-R! My Friday farewell meal specs below:

• turkey and light harvarti cheese sandwich with CSA lettuce and tinch of light mayo
• frozen pineapple
• pita chips
• cucumber slices with salad dressing for dipping

I'm feeling so elated for making it through this week being sick and handling the piles of work that faced me after taking 1 measly day off that I don't really feel like discussing my lunch tonight.

However, can we discuss this:MY NEW NEPHEW!!!

My sister and her husband made this little guy and he was born yesterday afternoon! So, you know, what do I really have to complain about?! Have a great weekend folks!

Sick Food

I'm still sick but I went to work anyway. My lunch was a comfort to me and my aching bones.

• smoked salmon and light havarti cheese sandwich on one of those sandwich flats
• frozen pineapple
• pita chip
• hummus

I don't even know why I put the hummus in there. Actually, I do know...I thought it would make a better picture. I don't really like hummus and I didn't even consider eating it. But, it seemed like I should put something to go with the pita chips. Anyway, I'm going to bed now. No more fever, just a cough and headache with a lot of joint pain. Fun!

That's More Like It

Today's lunch was gorgeous and still pretty simple. The humbly elegant details below:

• salad (romaine, arugula, cucumber, bell peppers, carrots, and some sort of radish)
• smoked salmon and lite havarti cheese sandwich on this
• frozen pineapple

I struggled to eat all of it because I most definitely coming down with a cold/flu thing. So, I won't be writing much here tonight. Just checked my temperature and it's 102.4 Not life threatening but high enough to warrant me going to bed a bit early. As my designated lifetime nursemaid said: "We can watch Undercovers under covers."

Expect a similar lunch situation tomorrow.

Slim Pickins

Isn't this a sorry state of affairs! The pitiful details below:

• a tin of sardines
• the last of the sugar snap peas
• a piece of cheese
• some raisins

This meal was straight up lame. I supplemented it with a packet of Go Lean oatmeal that I keep at my desk and some prunes that someone left in the office kitchen. Oh, FYI, a lunch featuring high fiber cereal, raw vegetables and PRUNES does not make for a settling afternoon, gastrointestinally speaking.

Anyboo, we got our last CSA share tonight (I'm too tired to take a picture right now) and I bought a couple of staple items from the store so hopefully tomorrow's lunch won't be so pathetic.

Hello, again!

The week has begun again and it looks like it's going to be another Doozy! Some old standards for today's lunch:

• homemade chicken fried rice (with spinach, peppers, snap peas, onions, carrots, etc.)
• fat-free vanilla yogurt
• carrots
• snap peas

I went out of town last week and over the weekend so my lunch/life routine was all over the place. When I got back home last night there was nothing special or new in the fridge to eat for today's lunch. It was the last of everything: the last of Thursday night's dinner; the last of the yummy CSA carrots; the bottom of the yogurt tub and almost the last of the snap peas. Anyway, now I'm home and everything is back to normal but I still haven't had a chance to whip up anything special for dinner tonight or lunch tomorrow. Heaven's knows what going to wind up in my lunchbox.

Fah Fah Fah Fresh!

Today's lunch was crisp and cool.

• salad (lettuce, arugula, purple carrots, red pepper)
• salad dressing (2 servings)
• sugar snap peas
• kiwis
  

Too bad I didn't get to actually eat any of this today! I got weak today and bought an entirely different lunch from Au Bon Pain (soup and pita chips). Yesterday woke up too late to make lunch and I had to buy lunch for the first time in months. Now it seems I've lost my mind and become addicted to spending $7.11 on inferior food. I put today's lunch in the work fridge and will have it tomorrow. I'm so disappointed in myself. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

And, We're Back!

There were some hits and some misses in today's lunch. The rundown below:

• roast pork tenderloin with garlic, rosemary, sage, lemon peel on a bed of brown rice
• delicata squash and leek soup (also with rosemary and sage)
• homemade garlic croutons
  
• whole wheat banana bread with chocolate chips and ginger
• sugar snap peas

Clearly, this was originally a dinner. In fact, it was the leftovers from our big Sunday dinner last night. I used up almost all of the vegetables from last week's CSA!
I made the squash and leek soup with every intention of pushing through my mushy, yellow food aversion. I even made some delicious garlicky croutons to add some much need crunch and firmness to the soup. But, I regret to report, I couldn't get the whole thing down this afternoon. After about 4 or 5 difficult, angst laden swallows I gave up. I felt every atom of it slither down my throat and, although it was perfectly seasoned and flovared, it was agony. You'll be happy to hear that I had no problem with the chocolate chip ginger banana bread. Surprise. Surprise. The best part of today lunch, however, was definitely the sugar snap peas. I discovered that I can pack them in my box raw and then just put a tiny bit of water in the little removable compartment and nuke it for 60 seconds. Win!