Your Lunch Today (Had it before?)
I'm at my desk having a big bowl of chicken noodle soup with leftover veggies and chicken, and saltine crackers.....AGAIN. Yesterday I had a liverwurst and onion sandwich on oatmeal bread, but I have this almost same bowl of chicken soup at least a few times a week in the winter. Are you as predictable as me, or do you change things up all the time?
What are you having for lunch today? Do you have that regularly?
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37 Comments:
I am having the other half of the corned beef sandwich I had yesterday. The only words I had to describe it to a co-worker were "it's Jew food"
annabanannas at 12:58PM on 01/30/09
3 graham crackers and a glass of milk. Not usually for lunch.
NanaJoie at 12:58PM on 01/30/09
I can go thru phases of eating the same thing every single day, and then those times when I switch it up.
Today I mixed up and made myself ume/shiso and wasabi/ginger/yuzu riceballs for lunch. They were not quite as tasty as I'd hoped. I did a stupid thing and stuck them in the fridge instead of just leaving them at room temp until lunch. I have a pink lady apple waiting to snack on.
chisai at 1:02PM on 01/30/09
I usually have the same thing all week, but it varies every week depending on what leftovers are in the fridge.
Instead of making chicken soup out of the leftovers, make chicken salad. Mix chopped up chicken and veggies with chipotle mayo (mayo with some chopped chipotles in adobo sauce), or regular mayo. Have it plain or on bread or crackers.
csmith7811 at 1:07PM on 01/30/09
I usually have the same thing for breakfast every day during the week...yogurt & fruit, but for lunch it's usually leftovers Mon - Thurs...then I order out on Fri. I'm a fickle person, so it's not usually the same thing. Today it was a cajun turkey sandwich & cheddar potato soup from the deli across the street. The sandwich was great, the soup not so much...they don't make their own soup, and it shows. I don't know what I was thinking....I know better! lol
mepolo at 1:07PM on 01/30/09
I try to eat dinner leftovers for lunch so that I don't eat frozen meals or fast food ... I got two lunches out of chicken/tortellini/mushroom/ck broth/tomato soup, ate out twice, and today's lunch will be leftover broccoli beef from last night's dinner. Mmm.
joyyy at 1:14PM on 01/30/09
I am hungover (blah)...so it's mexican food down the street...I can't wait!
lo82070 at 1:16PM on 01/30/09
@csmith ~ I appreciate the ideas, but I eat chicken soup so much because I love it! I was hospitalized with pneumonia (which I think I got from inhaling smoke and particles that poured out of my heating vents when there was an electrical fire in my furnace) and now I have COPD which makes me always feel like I have a chest cold and trouble breathing. When I don't feel well, I want chicken soup. I've had more bowls of this stuff since last August than I can count. Can't get enough and I'm not bored with it yet. If I were going out for lunch or buying lunch everyday, it would probably be a whole different story.
PerkyMac at 1:25PM on 01/30/09
I change things up all the time from what I bring from home to what I purchase to eat at work. It does help that my workplace has over 10 dining options (and it's not a shopping mall), all w/o stepping outside -- great in the winter and in the summer.
Today, I brought food from home and bought food at one of the cafeterias. My husband's leftover soup (beef, tomatoes, celery, yellow squash, zucchini artichokes, roasted red peppers, green bell peppers, mushrooms) and I bought a sandwich (roast beef, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, spinach and artichoke spread on Italian) and my daily San Pellegrino Aranciata fix.
Cassaendra at 1:34PM on 01/30/09
Is it sad that I get the same turkey sandwich every time I go to Subway for lunch (which is fairly often). I go with turkey on wheat with lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, black olives, vinegar and Italian seasoning. Doesn't get old, I don't know why.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 1:36PM on 01/30/09
I usually have leftovers, but I'm saving that leftover red sauce with italian sausage for dinner. Lunch today is a hunk of sharp cheddar, rye melba toasts, and a few dabs of sriracha.
Kerosena at 1:53PM on 01/30/09
Had a schmear on a piece of cinnamon raisin bread from a loaf I tried a few days ago during a baking fit. Luckily I don't get a fever with those kind of fits! I am still in love with my KA mixer for kneading dough.
coffeefrappe at 1:56PM on 01/30/09
I tend to make up a batch of something simple on Sundays that will serve as my lunch for the week ahead. This week it was marinated tofu, brown rice and broccoli. I've eaten it every day this week and was not sick of it. I'm thinking that I'll do something similar for next week too.
Amandarama at 2:04PM on 01/30/09
i usually have a pretty good lunch but today i was in a hurry and just had a SUNbutter and jelly sandwich. I have a family member severely allergic to peanuts so we have been introduced to Sunbutter, which is made from sunflower seeds... its better than peanut butter i swear...
hungrygrl7 at 2:13PM on 01/30/09
usually its some kind of chicken soup with a burnt hog dog. today it's garlic hummus with warm pita, maybe a cosmic brownie for a treat. or a apple pie. or both.
dearrie at 2:13PM on 01/30/09
I just had a slice of whole wheat bread with avocado and salt. I wish it could be my regular lunch!:-) I guess my lunches are unpredictable. It may be just about anything: soup, sandwich, last night's leftovers, salad, eggs, cereal...you name it.
brooke29 at 2:17PM on 01/30/09
I usually don't have much for lunch - but today was a nice exception.
We had a soup pot-luck. There were 6 different kinds of homemade soup,
several loaves of homemade bread, a plate of relishes and some cookies for dessert. Now I just want to take a nap! If we did these too often we'd never get any work done.
White chili w/ chicken
Gumbo w/chicken and smoked sausage
Borscht
Chuckwagon stew
Broccoli cheddar
Baked potato w/bacon & cheese
dutchgal at 2:19PM on 01/30/09
I go through lunch phases. I had homemade vegetable minestrone every weekday for a couple months. Then I had homemade butternut squash soup every weekday for about a month. I'm still sort of in that phase but I ran out today, so I'm having fruit salad for lunch. A welcome change - I've been CRAVING fruit salad lately, so I caved. Yum.
littlestcapy at 2:24PM on 01/30/09
Rice steamed with chicken, mushrooms, green onions and ginger
Some leftover sauteed zucchini and the last six precious gam la (a popular Taiwanese appetizer using a special kind of clam that grow no bigger than a quarter. They are steeped in a mixture of soy sauce, rice wine, garlic and chili peppers. Some versions are very briefly dipped in boiling water, some are eaten completely raw)
*_* ::paws at freezer:: tell me there are mooooore.
fuuchan at 2:26PM on 01/30/09
My stomach has been iffy this week, so I have been eating nothing but soup. I had minestrone Monday-Wednesday, and miso the last two days. Normally, my lunch is leftovers, so a grain salad or roasted veggies and beans. I also made lentil soup for dinner last night, so I'll have that for lunch the next few days. On weekends, I usually opt for big salads.
KarynMC at 2:41PM on 01/30/09
Oh, I have so had it before: PB&J. Ugh. I bring it because it's fast and cheap, and doesn't even need to be refrigerated (though there is a refrigerator, it tends to get overcrowded). When I remember, I'll do things like put leftovers in a little tupperware the night before, but most of the time it's really hard for me to find an easy way to bring interesting lunches to work. Maybe some day I'll be organized!
Junie at 2:41PM on 01/30/09
I bought a rotisserie chicken and chopped the breast meat and put on a salad of romaine, carrots, onions and cherry tomatoes and tossed with blue cheese vinagrette. I needed crunchy and wheat free today.
The rest of the chicken will become stock. We have main dish salads a lot for lunch. Tonight we are going out for barbeque (and I am in Texas, so it's all good!).
ocarol at 3:01PM on 01/30/09
You can count on me having a salad for lunch, quick and easy to fix right before I walk out the door. If there is leftover chicken or vegies I can just dump them in. At times I am not even asked if I want to order something because they know I have brought my salad. About once a month by Friday I am ready to order somewhere/anywhere. Today it was McDonald's cheeseburger and small fries.
Maryland Crab
Maryland Crab at 3:37PM on 01/30/09
When I am at work, I almost exclusively get lunch from the Mexican place two doors down. One side order of black beans, two side orders of "yellow" rice (with spices, cooked with tomatoes, really yummy) and occasionally a 7-layer bar. It's tasty, the spicy livens up my nerves at a boring day of work, and it's crazy cheap. I drop a fiver every day, but if I didn't tip like I do it would be more like $3 a day.
nightowl at 5:36PM on 01/30/09
Lean Cuisine :( Was planning to go out for one of my regular free restaurant lunches (I work at a resort), but was sidelined by the world's longest conference call. I really need to learn how to say NO when someone asks if we can stay on the line for another 20 (which turned out to be 45) minutes. TGIF!
Embackus at 5:44PM on 01/30/09
Lunch? whats that? I kinda forgot about it again so I guess that qualifys as having the same thing. usually lunch when I remember, is some crackers with pb and salt or maybe some soup. SO just left for a week so I guess I'll have to write it down so I remember to eat :-(
huneybumper at 5:48PM on 01/30/09
If I eat lunch, it's usually leftovers. Not necessarily leftover dinner, but it could be something cobbled from leftover ingredients. On rare occasions, I'll make something completely different. Yesterday I made tuna salad for a sandwich, and I had that again today, so I guess it's sort of a leftover.
Sometimes I'll have breakfast food at lunchtime -- usually either oatmeal or grits.
If I'm hungry and there are no suitable leftovers, I might have toast or a peanut butter sandwich.
Once a week, I go to a meeting where lunch is provided, and depending on what's there, I might or might not eat.
Hm....other than the meeting, where pizza is a staple, lunches don't repeat themselves terribly often, I guess. Except the no-food-lunch, which is fairly typical.
dbcurrie at 6:03PM on 01/30/09
I usually eat leftovers for lunch. But today there weren't any so it was a quesadilla for me. Not gourmet or anything, but it fed me.
Deseree at 6:46PM on 01/30/09
In Oct. and Nov. I made crock pot dinners and froze them. Did not label them.(now I do, learned my lesson) Now I get a container out the night before and thaw it out. In the morning look at it and say I remember making this!! Today lunch was chicken gumbo! makes my co-workers want to trade lunches.
jcreamer58 at 6:47PM on 01/30/09
Turkey on white sandwich bread with havarti cheese and homemade fig spread. I've been eating versions of this all week - havarti on crackers with fig spread, or the same sandwich on a challah roll. But I intentionally mixed up the incarnations of the same ingredients so I would actually keep eating it. (oh, and I threw a few leftover sliced scallions on today's sandwich - just a few- and wow what a difference! So good!) Having a sandwich for lunch is, of course, nothing new, but I usually don't like turkey lunch meat and the fig spread was a new recipe so this week's lunches were unusual in that respect.
I spend a good bit of time each week planning my menus, to ensure I have a lunch I'll actually eat. I get pretty zoned out and woozy if I don't eat, and I have the sort of hectic days that make skipping lunch tempting. Thus lunch must be *more* tempting.
Rarely do I take dinner leftovers, but this is mostly because I usually have those planned into another dinner.
I think next week I might make some mini-strombolis.
AliceBlue at 7:56PM on 01/30/09
I work a straight 8 hour day so I eat at my desk (if I eat!!!!) so I try to keep something available. Today is was broccoli-cheese soup. Somedays it is cheese crackers w/peanut butter or a granola bar.
renee59 at 8:14PM on 01/30/09
Ham on whole wheat with spicy mustard and a pickle slice, nicely toasted in the George Foreman thing.
Ribster at 8:28PM on 01/30/09
I pulled a real no-no today: Porgy and I went to Starbuck's where I had "petite vanilla scones"...four of them. Yeah, they were small (a small 600 calories). That was my lunch. My punishment was an extra hour on the treadmill.
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley.
bessfour at 8:54PM on 01/30/09
At least 3 times a week it's chicken nuggets from the freezer (bad, I know but there's no gristle or fat to deal with); a restaurant sandwich (usually smoked salmon) on Tuesdays between the gym and my volunteer gig, and who knows what the other 3. Today it's an Arab restaurant a bit north of my house, I'll probably have kebab (see the reason for chicken nuggets above) - a friend pinged me last night to ask me to lunch with her and her DH since she knows mine is on a business trip :-)
cowprintrabbit at 2:06AM on 01/31/09
If I get a craving then I will have to eat what I'm craving till I get burned out. That could mean one day or a few months, ya never know with me. Usually though I will switch around different things (when I am not craving something), but even when I eat the craving dish I will have things with it as well. At lunch yesterday (because it is not lunch time here yet), I had a chicken burrito, a cup of this creamed chicken and veg soup, some fries and a few pieces of candy.
pjracz10 at 12:30PM on 01/31/09
@-Cassaendra- OMG 12 restuarants, that is alot. See now if I worked there I would never bring things from home, those 12 places would be too tempting. Years ago when I worked right across the street from The Pike Place Market, I would bring a lunch because I was working part time and going to to school (the poor staving student syndrome), never got around to eating what I brought, there were tons and tons of places at the Pike that would tempt me. I have zero willpower when it comes to that market. Sure took a huge chunk from my wallet, but my tummy was happy.
pjracz10 at 5:21PM on 01/31/09
Today is looking to be bahn mi for lunch. Again. I am a bahn mi addict.
fuuchan at 11:37AM on 02/01/09