Lunchenbergs

The apple that's a little too much when you drank a little too much and ate a little too much a little too late at night.

It's almost time for lunch! Don't think about lunch too much.

Don't think about lunch.

Don't think.

I am eating what could have been my lunch right now. But I was soooo hungreeeee and I was out of morning snacks!! I will later make a pilgrimage to buy overpriced organic fruits at Whole Foods.

Early lunch rating: Excellent

P.S. Every time I order miso soup I make a "Miso hungry" joke, but  a quick google search has revealed that I am not the only one to think of this HILARIOUS play on words.

5 Hershey's MIniatures

Half a cup of plain yogurt

Half a cup of trail mix

Two Laughing Cow snack cheeses

I'd say I had tapas, but this was over the course of several hours. I'm considering eating the lunch I brought (leftover Salvadorean food) as an early dinner before leaving the office.

I haven't eaten lunch yet but I just ate a ton of almonds while I bought Christmas presents for my loved ones.

And I was struck: where does a snack end and lunch begin? Will I be caught in this lunchless but snackfull zone forever?

Today's lunch: tuna on croissant, bag of chips, cookie. Lunch rating: 3 out of 5.

Yesterday we went to a restaurant but I neglected to take a picture. I had a blackened triggerfish sandwich with fries, and it was delicious. 4.5 out if 5.

Coming at you from Charleston, SC! Today I had vegetable soup, salad, potato chips, and a chocolate chip cookie.

The cookie was the best part.

Yesterday was Monday and I forgot to bring a lunch so I went out with my coworker to get a cheap sit-down meal of Japanese tofu teriyaki. If I could travel in time, I would go back and take a picture because yesterday I forgot. Let me just say that it was pretty damn delicious, and I couldn't eat it all and just ate the rest right now.

After lunch we went to Whole Foods because I find it comforting and thought I might buy a small plant for my desk. The plants weren't that exciting or cute enough, though, so we went back to work.

Please enjoy this picture of a beautiful field near my college where I am not anywhere near at the moment. 

Lunch rating (yesterday): 4.75 out of 5

Today's lunch: Original Salad from Cosi, eaten at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Pros: an abundance of toppings, the correct amount of salad dressing, good piece of bread (not pictured), I'm not at my desk.

Cons: Gorgonzola cheese is a bit strong,  high difficulty factor due to size of lettuce and lack of tabletop.

Lunch rating: 4 out of 5.

My coworkers got a reprieve from the smell of my garlicky pasta today. I’m having spinach polenta casserole and an arugula salad.

Pros: casserole very cheesy; meal contains approximately 2.5 servings of vegetables.

Cons: salad dressing leaked in lunchbox; polenta has strange taste.

Same pasta as yesterday, with the tomatoes replaced by a salad.

The pasta was a bit better than yesterday's serving, due to a higher toppings-to-noodles ratio. It was also pinker.

A vietnamese instant noodle bowl. Not terribly inspired, but it is gluten free (yeah, I'm sort of doing that?) and I grabbed it out of my cupboard before heading to my boyfriend's last night. Also I ate it out of a bowl that I made! I had a matching one but someone broke it (by accident) and gave me chocolate instead (on purpose).

Advantage: easy, yummy, cheap as shit.

Disadvantage: required all the utensils to eat (see above). The noodles were so long and cojoined that I needed a knife to cut them and a fork to eat them and a spoon to slurp them.

Second disadvantage: not nearly enough food. Previously posted about almonds are now gone.

Today's lunch consisted of Greek yoghurt with honey and tamari-roasted almonds. Eaten at: desk. With: no one.

General lunch rating: 6.5 out of 10

Today's lunch also was not eaten until 2:45, resulting in alarmingly low blood sugar and dangerously high hanger. 

Today’s lunch: angel hair pasta with Swiss chard and garlic chips and a side of cherry tomatoes with feta.

The pasta was pretty tasty, though rather pungent for an office setting. The Swiss chard turned the angel hair an interesting shade of pink, but the dish would have been improved with a thicker noodle.

The tomatoes were exactly as expected.

Today's lunch: A case of mistaken identity.

I opened my container of tasty homemade squash soup to find nothing but quinoa.