What's For Lunch?
I’m fried at work today and I spent the morning at the dentist, so here’s a random post off the top of my head. I always love hearing what Jane Espenson is having for lunch, so let’s find out what’s on the menu for the rest of us today!
I don’t even have a great answer: I went to the grocery store earlier in the week and picked up some supplies, including a prepackaged chicken Caesar salad. I’ve never tried it before, but it had lemon wedges included, and so I could not resist. I’ll probably have it with a side of red seedless grapes, also from the grocery store venture.
My most frequent lunch is a veggie sandwich from the deli across the street. Whole wheat bread, avocado, sprouts, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and, recently, balsamic vinegar instead of mayo and mustard. I usually get it with a banana or some cut-up fruit and a lemony sparkling water. And the whole thing comes out to like six bucks, because the deli across the street is incredibly cheap by San Francisco standards. (Just in case all of this makes you afraid to admit you had something totally decadent, on Monday my co-worker and I went to the bar across the street for burgers and fries and about twelve diet soda refills each. It was excellent.)
So, what are you having for lunch today? And, if you have one, what’s your lunchtime staple?
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I think I’m going to go to Whole Foods and have their fabulous salad bar and a bottle of Honest Tea.
minestrone and raw veggies and about a gallon of Diet Pepsi.
I am eating in the one of the college’s grab-and-go cafes today, and they have an awesome hot dog machine. It’s a lot like the those you see in 7-11, only much less gross, and the buns are kept warming in a drawer. So I will be having an fantastic hot dog, and probably a lot of diet coke, and maybe a bag of chips or whatever else tickles my fancy.
I brought in a leftover shrimp enchilada and some black beans, but my coworker just suggested that it might be “hippie sandwich day,” which is when we go to the local co-op and get a deli sandwich. Mine is typically chipotle turkey, pepperoncinis, cranberry sauce, lots of sprouts, cream cheese, and sometimes avocado on spelt bread. It’s the only place on this side of town that has a spelt option, and it’s such a treat to not have to make my own sandwich that we go every few weeks.
But usually my lunch is leftovers from dinner yesterday, or just a frozen something with some fruit or veggies on the side. Lately I am all about the Organic Classics Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
Take-away salad with asparagus, mozzarella, roasted peppers and balsamic dressing – I love me some veggies. And, what the menu aptly described as a “giant” raspberry almond cookie.
I generally bring my lunch from home, and today’s no exception: a turkey sandwich on homemade wheat bread, blanched asparagus (since I went nuts at Costco and bought a bunch of asparagus), baby carrots, some grapes, a handful of crackers. In the afternoon, there will be yogurt and cereal and strawberries which were cleaned and frozen last week, courtesy the aforementioned Costco run.
That’s pretty much standard. A sandwich (or leftovers from the night before, if there are any), vegetables, fruit, yogurt. I’m very boring. :)
Drive thru fast food- not ideal, but it is what it is, and this day is what it is. It will probably end in ice cream, which is how I self-medicate the heartburn.
Dinner is pot luck, though. Pot luck with Church Ladies who make wonderful things, and don’t even tut-tut at me when I show up with my box of frozen meatballs + jar of sauce + slow cooker.
Whole wheat couscous with marinated tuna steak. I made some for dinner last night, which was good, but it’s always better the next day.
I almost always bring my lunch to work from home. It varies between dinner leftovers and something similar to what I have today:
1 large fuji apple with slices of monterey jack cheese
2 caramel-flavored rice cakes
6 really super sweet strawberries
8 large red globe grapes
Some of this seedy-honey-crunchy bar thing I got at the farmer’s market
A huuuuuuuge glass of water
If I eat anything too heavy for lunch, it makes me want to put my head down on my desk and take a nap.
Not sure yet–I sort of feel having something fried, but few places around here do it very well (and soggy fried food is such a let-down). Default is the amazing sub place around the corner–a big mozzarella, tomato, and basil sub with olive oil and basalmic vinegar… for $4.50. Yum.
My lunch menus are kind of limited since I refuse to use a microwave, plus I tend to eat smaller meals through the day and save my big meal for dinner because I am hungriest then, esp. after the gym. So today, for lunch around noon, half an ounce almonds and a Fage 0% yogurt with a tangerine. But then around 2:30 or 3, I’ll have cottage cheese and tabbouleh, and then at 5pm before I head to the gym I’ll have an apple and some dry cereal (Kashi Go Lean — so yummy) if I’m really hungry.
Salad in a Pita for me
Homemade mushroom soup, if I get around to making it. It’s my last work from home day for a while, and I intend to make the most of it. I’m also planning to make hummus this afternoon (chickpeas are cooking now).
I’m having whole wheat penne with cherry tomatos, mushrooms, and a little fresh mozzarella cheese. Yummy!
will have a baby spring mix with some stir fry tofu
have some leftover beans so will throw that on there too. mmmmmm
I am having an overpriced sandwich from a shop at the university I work at. Sandwich is delicious, though: sourdough bread, avocado, swiss cheese, sprouts, tomato and mayonnaise. It’s just the thing to keep me from strangling my coworkers.
Good god, I love Jane Espenson . . . and Bob Harris. I had no idea they were a couple and discovered the fact while cycling on a recumbent bike, reading “Prisoner of Trebekistan.” It was a beautiful moment.
Every Thursday I get the spinach melt from the Deli downstairs. Grilled spinach (with oregano) and fresh mushrooms, provolone cheese on a soft pita. MMMMMMM……
I got a medium Cottage Inn pizza with black and green olives, tomatoes, onions, artichokes, feta and mozerella cheese. What I don’t finish for lunch will be dinner. Or I’ll just eat the whole thing over the course of the afternoon and not be hungry for anything more than a small snack (if that) before I go to bed tonight.
I didn’t take the time to make a lunch today at home. I hate it when that happens.
I may get a Subway sub or maybe a nice salad from the pizza joint near where I work. With a few garlic knot rolls to eat with it….
Today: grilled sea scallops and grilled veggies, with a dessert of homemade Greek-style yogurt from my brand-new yogurt maker!
One of my favorite lunches is a cup of nonfat cottage cheese or Greek yogurt with fresh berries, a handful of pecans, and a little maple syrup for sweetening. It may not sound like much but it’s actual very filling.
I also like to dig around in the fridge for whatever veggies need to be used up and make a big stir-fry.
I am in the process of eating Special K with Strawberries and some sliced banana with dried blueberries on top.
And, some orange juice. I realize this sounds like breakfast, but it’s lunch for today!
SO grateful to have a Trader Joe’s a quick hop from the office ! Today it’ll be one of my favorites from TJ’s salad selection:endive, romaine, bleu cheese & candied walnuts with a nice vinaigrette, along with a couple of slices off a fresh baguette & a bottle of Crystal Geyser. The salad costs a big $3 & I keep water at the office. Easy, cheap & yummy lunch.
Today’s lunch will be the last of the sundried tomato raviolis with veggies and pesto sauce that I made for dinner last night (yummy beyond expression!) and the last slice of homemade blueberry pie. I lace both the crust and the filling with cinnamon and cocoa powder, and it is heavenly.
In contrast, I have no freaking clue what dinner might be tonight. Guess I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.
Lunch today was leftover meatloaf from going out to dinner last night. It’s full of mushrooms, shredded carrots, Guinness Stout and is delightful. Leftovers from the night before (whether homemade or takeaway) are my standard lunches.
My staple take out lunch is probably a grilled cheese and soup combo from the dining hall in my building because I can get it for $5 and they make really yummy veggie soups like Butternut squash.
Today is Thursday, so it is fancy-salad-from-Super-Target day. This time, it’s D’Amico’s “springberry” salad, which involves strawberries, blueberries, goat cheese, walnuts, and a fruity dressing. The only thing I don’t love about it is the fruity dressing. I prefer poppyseed.
Lest you think I’m an angelic health nut, I totally had a piece of greasy pizza, too.
Mo Pie knows this already because she was at my house last night while I was making it, but my lunch today will be risotto with asparagus and peas. This is pretty typical, lunch is usually my biggest meal of the day and is usually something dinner-ish. But usually I also have a piece of fruit, and I don’t today because my houseguests from earlier in the week cleaned out my farmers’ market stash!
I’m not sure yet. I’m feeling like something light, so maybe some sushi or salad bar from the grocery store across the street. With the strawberries I bought from home.
Asiago cheese bagel, toasted, with garden vegetable cream cheese. To go with, ice water, Excel spreadsheets, a bit of visual basic coding, and catching up on my emails.
Dunkin Donuts Bagel and Cream Cheese.
Definitely not ideal but it was stress eating after stress not eating for a whole morning.
Usually I eat whatever sounds good, and when I’m at work that’s usually baked macaroni and cheese from the french bistro across the street. BAD! but tastes so GOOD.
We are having the April birthday lunch at work today. Because I was one of two people to have a birthday in April, the lunch coordinator came to me a couple of weeks ago to ask me what I’d like to eat. I said anything but Asian food. I don’t like Japanese, Chinese or Thai food. Okay, he said, we’ll have Italian.
They are serving up the Chinese food as I type. Two of the managers vetoed my suggestion and demanded Chinese. The ridiculous part is that the two people who voted against me aren’t here to eat lunch with us…they’re in meetings today.
Sigh, office politics….
(so, to answer your question, I had a burger from Wendy’s about ten minutes ago. I am avoiding the board room where everyone else is eating and hiding out on the internet)
I had clam chowder, a ciabatta roll, and a pomegranate Izze from the Whole Foods Market across the street. Their clam chowder is really good.
I only have 30 minutes for lunch, so I bring mine 99.9% of the time. The only constant is a salad made at home in the morning. In addition to that I have either leftovers, some kind of meat or fish, or a Lean Cuisine panini, pizza, or flatbread thing.
Well aren’t you all healthy! Not knocking you guys but if I only had cereal for lunch I would keel over a few hours later, since I walk about 6 miles a day.
For lunch I had curly chips from the student union and some orange juice. For tea I really fancy a baked potato and hummous. Huzzah!
Mmmmm, salad. I just finished a trial, which means lunch and dinner for weeks has been sandwiches brought into the office so we could work through meals — and I physically cannot eat another sandwich, not for a while.
But the mention of Whole Foods’s salad bar… mmmm vegetables. So now I’m wondering if I can walk the mile or so to Whole Foods and back in these high heels without getting major blisters.
A small cup of yogurt and granola.
Cafeteria Food. What can I say.
I had some soysage links, and yogurt with cereal and banana mixed in.
Ya’ll are making me realize that I need to get my ass to the store and get some better food.
Beef ravioli from a can. And a bunch of cookies and milk. I think a few too many. I’ve got kind of a stomach ache.
What can I say, I’d just gotten back from the grocery store after having run out of several staples in my kitchen and was celebrating my renewed food security. by eating a lot of cookies.
I usually bring my lunch from home, and it’s usually some sort of leftovers from a dinner earlier in the week. This week has been HOT, so today I had guacamole mixed with canned chicken and chopped mushrooms, stuffed into a raw orange pepper, with some ground salt and pepper on top. It was a new experiment, and OMG IT WAS SO GOOD!!! :D
I brought my usual mini-buffet: broccoli with hummus to dip it in, and a snack pack of cottage cheese with spicy blue corn tortilla chips for dipping. Plus grapes plus almonds.
So far that is three references to The Evil! You guys are killing me.
Lately I’ve been making these enormous salads with lettuce, walnuts, avocado, mushrooms, broccoli, and chopped smoked tempeh. Then I make a dressing with Vegenaise (yummy delicious vegan mayonnaise) and hot sauce. It is fan-frigging-tastic.
I went over to the salad bar / hot buffet place and got some chow mein noodles, shrimp with peppers, mixed veggies and strawberries for dessert.
There are a lot of options near where I work so, even though I think I should bring my lunch to save money, I rarely end up doing so. My weekly rotation typically includes falafel on whole wheat pita, a turkey and coleslaw sandwich and the Thai peanut chicken wrap from Au Bon Pain. I do keep containers of instant black bean or lentil soup around for days when I get too swamped. And then there are days like yesterday when I foolishly failed to realize how long a meeting would last and ended up grabbing almonds and a granola bar from the snack bar around 1:30. (And the meeting, which should never have gone past 1 ended up lasting until almost 6.)
A co-worker and I have a salad bar going out of a refridgerator at work. We both contribute to stocking it so today my salad consisted of romaine, canneloni beans, black beans, olives, feta cheese, dried cranberries, garbonzo beans with tuna on top…..it was delicious!!!
McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce, fries and a diet coke. What can I say? I was craving processed pressed chicken
I had squid salad…CALAMARI. Lunch is easy, it’s dinner that drives me crazy.
Usually on sunday I’ll make something that lasts me throughout the week — my recent obsession:
Quinoa Chicken Salad
Quinoa
Balsamic chicken breasts, shredded
Diced celery, scallions, cucumber
Sliced red grapes
FF feta cheese
Newman’s Own Light Balsamic Vinagrette
I don’t measure anything, I just throw it all in a big bowl, mix it up, and eat it with pita or an english muffin! Delish! And so darn healthy!
a WW thai chicken , carrots sticks with light ranch dressing and watermelon.. ususally its fruit and yogurt and some type of sandwhich…
Yesterday, I had half of a chocolate chip bagel (courtesy of some other department’s breakfast meeting), some sort of puff pastry with meat inside (courtesy of one of our vendors), a Trader Joe’s fig bar, two or three disks of imported French dark chocolate (courtesy of another vendor), and another quarter of the chocolate chip bagel (someone had eaten the other quarter in the interim). Washed down with sparkling water, cranberry juice, bad coffee, and a small non-fat, decaf Misto from Starbucks.
Everything I ate yesterday was some shade of brown. That can’t be good. Tasted good, though.
Hmm…yesterday I had hummus, fresh veggies & flatbread from a spot across the street from work…today I had PB on toasted cinnamon raisin bread!
Today was albacore tuna salad in a pita with a dill pickle, some chips that were really good, a cookie, a banana.