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Lunch
Today, a cat picture lunch post. Tomorrow, we return to our regularly scheduled fannish topics.
Tomorrow I go back to working full-time hours after being part-time for July and August. (It's going to be such a shock to my system!) I am trying to save money by bringing my lunch with me most days of the week. I don't cook a lot and when I do, it's usually something that doesn't generate leftovers. So, I'm trying to figure out some fast, easy, and tasty lunches.
When I was growing up, I took my lunch to school most days. And I would only ever eat tuna sandwiches. Every day, for years and years, tuna sandwiches. Bread, mayo, tuna, and salt. It's still a big favourite of mine, but I don't think I can eat it more than two or three times a week right now.
What do you take to work for lunch? How much time do you spend making it? Is it really worth the bother?
Tomorrow I go back to working full-time hours after being part-time for July and August. (It's going to be such a shock to my system!) I am trying to save money by bringing my lunch with me most days of the week. I don't cook a lot and when I do, it's usually something that doesn't generate leftovers. So, I'm trying to figure out some fast, easy, and tasty lunches.
When I was growing up, I took my lunch to school most days. And I would only ever eat tuna sandwiches. Every day, for years and years, tuna sandwiches. Bread, mayo, tuna, and salt. It's still a big favourite of mine, but I don't think I can eat it more than two or three times a week right now.
What do you take to work for lunch? How much time do you spend making it? Is it really worth the bother?
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Something I've just discovered that's wonderful and unexpectedly filling are smoothies. I just got a blender last week, so I've been experimenting like crazy. The banana+peanut butter+honey is my favorite, but the strawberry+blueberry+raspberry is good too, and the chocolate+peanut butter was a big hit with the roommate. Infinite varieties! I'm gathering courage to try the carrot-apple that my cousin swears is so amazing. You wouldn't believe the crazy things you could put in a blender and make taste all right.
The trick I've discovered for making a smoothie filling enough for a snack or a meal is to add a generous serving of vanilla yogurt or smooth tofu (or both) for protein and weight. I would never actually eat a serving of tofu straight (ew, that texture! ew ew ew!), but you can't even tell it's there when it's all blended together. Plus, hey, extra source of calcium! Never bad.
The beauty about smoothies is that they're even better chilled, so if you blend them the night before, just decant into a travel mug and throw it in the fridge, and the next morning, it's ready to go with no hassle!