How I Eat: Lunch
Posted by denise | Filed under Food and Drink, enviro, health
I am doing a bunch of posts on my eating habits this week. If you’re interested, here’s breakfast.
Lunch is a big problem for me right now. One thing I loved about freelancing was making a fresh lunch for myself. It felt so spoiled. It WAS so spoiled. Usually I would have a sandwich, usually involving avocado and/or onion and/or tomato and/or some kind of green and/or cheese, or maybe some pasta with parsley and garlic. Or leftovers, of course.
The last time I had a Job, I just took leftovers for lunch, which is the easiest thing. The problem now is that I never know where I’ll be at lunchtime—could be an H1N1 clinic in Etobicoke, could be the courthouse, could be outside a random criminal’s house, waiting to pounce—so I can’t take fussy things that need to be assembled and/or heated. This is a pain for me, especially because I am not too big on sandwiches made earlier in the day because of the mush factor. I don’t like buying my lunch because it’s so expensive to get anything that doesn’t suck.
Mainly I have been taking leftovers and eating them cold, which is often unsatisfying—example a, that beautiful pad thai up there, tonight’s dinner. Tomorrow I’ll likely be eating it on the run, room temperature, out of plastic, with a plastic fork. A travesty, right? Alternately, I’ll take hummus and sprouts or egg salad in pita and eat it mushy and feel sorry for myself. If you have another idea, let me know.
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I sympathize! I remember back in my summer reporter days, sitting on the floor at the courthouse with some mushy, crappy looking peanut butter sandwich that had been squished under the tape recorder in my purse. I’d chat with the other reporters, which is how I learned that true newspaper folk smoke and drink Tim’s rather than eat actual food. So my advice is taking a liquid lunch - gin or Booster Juice?!