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out to lunch with my OCD
Sep. 29th, 2009 01:15 amFor the last 3-4 years I've been eating mostly the same thing for lunch every day: soup and crackers or pretzels with water or coffee. For the last three work days I've been bringing the same soup into work with me: Healthy Choice chicken with rice. It's a good soup. It's filling, has enough taste to it so you know you are eating something, and you get the extra, added bonus of Carol King singing in your head all day long. But, for the last three days, I've been finding other things to eat. Mostly grilled cheese with bacon on wheat. I think I'm finally tired of canned, microwavable soup.
The problem here is that soup is relatively inexpensive. Sure, it's not PB&J cheap, but it's not $8 a day for the special sandwich and a soda at the cafe sort of expensive either. And it's definitely not the ten to fifteen bucks I'd be dropping if I went out to a better-than-fast-food restaurant at lunch time. And there's not much else in that $1.50 price range that is as healthy, and as filling, *and requires as little work* as that can of soup. That last bit is important. I'm not a morning person, and throwing a can of soup in my laptop bag is as about as much lunch prep as I'm able to deal with in the morning--and I often do that the night before just so I don't forget.
So when I go the grocery store later this week (it's pay week!), I'm going to be on the look-out for something new for lunch. Some thing healthy. Something simple. Something inexpensive. Something, undoubtedly, pre-packaged and either microwavable or requiring no heating at all.
I wonder how long I could go before I tired of apples?
The problem here is that soup is relatively inexpensive. Sure, it's not PB&J cheap, but it's not $8 a day for the special sandwich and a soda at the cafe sort of expensive either. And it's definitely not the ten to fifteen bucks I'd be dropping if I went out to a better-than-fast-food restaurant at lunch time. And there's not much else in that $1.50 price range that is as healthy, and as filling, *and requires as little work* as that can of soup. That last bit is important. I'm not a morning person, and throwing a can of soup in my laptop bag is as about as much lunch prep as I'm able to deal with in the morning--and I often do that the night before just so I don't forget.
So when I go the grocery store later this week (it's pay week!), I'm going to be on the look-out for something new for lunch. Some thing healthy. Something simple. Something inexpensive. Something, undoubtedly, pre-packaged and either microwavable or requiring no heating at all.
I wonder how long I could go before I tired of apples?
