Lunchbox #5

Ah, Mondays. Longest day of the week in my opinion. Lucky for me I only have two classes on Mondays! Stupid of me, I did nothing to progress my studying over the weekend so I had lots to do today. I ended up being at school (mostly in the library) from 8-5. Got my environmental ethics reading on. Wrote a paper. The usual college stuff. 
But anyway...
Today's lunch was delightful, but a little small. I felt like a genius last night when I attempted to make a non-sloppy, lunch box-friendly, sandwich version of ants on a log. To my dismay, it was an utter failure. Pretty hilariously so, actually. There was more peanut butter on the lid than in the celery and the raisins were clustered in a little corner, as far as they could physically be from the celery. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. 

Top left: Mixed greens salad with sliced farmer's market radishes, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and a side of (my favorite!) light champagne dressing. 
Top right: Leftover Indian spiced lentils with vegetarian sausage. So so good. 
Bottom right: Baby carrots and green grapes.
Bottom left: Ants on a log, sandwich style: celery, peanut butter, and raisins. 

Let me tell you bout them grapes. Those grapes used to be "Sour Patch Grapes", meaning they were covered in Cherry Lemonade flavored Jello powder as was suggested by Pinterest and about a million other healthy food blogs. They were, to say the least, gross. The Jello powder was gritty and too sweet and after a few days in the fridge became wet and soggy. That is definitely a DO NOT recommend. That said, the fix is easy: rinse them off with water and voila! Back to normal, tasty, and very well washed green grapes, ready for my lunch and belly. 

Have a great week! 

Lunchbox #4

This morning I had my Ecology class at 9:30. Earliest class all week :) I am starting my fourth year of college and I have never experienced life without 8 AM classes. I don't think I'll have a hard time getting used to this. 

Unfortunately now that I'm getting into the schedule of waking up later than usual, I was still rushed making this lunch. I enjoyed it and I didn't even finish all of it. Maybe next time, less nuts. Yummy nonetheless!

Have a great weekend friends!

Top left: Whole sandwich of Good Seed bread with sharp white cheddar cheese slices and red pepper hummus. 

Top right: A mixture of raw walnuts, raw cashews, and dark chocolate chips. 

Bottom right: Lots of fresh blueberries.

Bottom left: Five ripe cherry tomatoes and some baby carrots. 

Lunchbox #2

Alright so this may seem like a big lunch (I don't know, does it?), but it was meant to last me from 9:30 to 7 at night. 

Top left: Half of a sandwich with Good Seed multi-grain bread, a few slices of sharp white cheddar cheese, and a smear of red pepper hummus, homemade by Corrina. 
Top right: A hard-boiled egg and two Lara bar balls I made. Those tasty little balls were made of cashews, walnuts, dates, dark chocolate chips, cocoa powder, raw cacao nibs, shredded coconut, and about a half teaspoon of coconut oil. Is your mouth watering yet? 
Bottom right: Plain Chobani yogurt with blueberries and a substantial squirt of honey.
Bottom left: Spring mix and spinach with baby carrots, cherry tomatoes and a side of balsamic Italian dressing. 

Lunchbox #3

Yes my lunches are starting to become repetitive already. But what's a girl to do? I have absolutely no excuse to buy the variety of produce I would like to when I'm only feeding myself. Alas, I'll have blueberries and carrots for most of the week. Oh well, can't have too many carrots. :) 

Top left: Sharp white cheddar cheese slices and All Bran Multigrain (and high fiber too!) crackers. 

Top right: Hard-boiled egg and a Morningstar sausage patty broken in half. 

Bottom right: Baby carrots and blueberries (as promised). 

Bottom left: The prettiest apple slices you'll ever see, plus some all natural creamy peanut butter for dipping. 

Lunchbox #1

I am so excited to be back in my college town and apartment. Moving from a home with seven people to three is definitely a change for the better in my mind. It's basically always nice and clean are there are less competing opinions on how to arrange the posters around the living room. It's quiet, the fridge isn't so full, people do their dishes, and our home is happy place. 

I'll be honest though. As much as I was looking forward to a clean house, that amount of excitement was nowhere near my excitement in coming home to a brand-spanking-new lunch box sitting on my bed! I literally looked forward to making my lunch all day and now I'm looking forward to eating it tomorrow! It'll be a delicious start to my first semester of my fourth year (wow!) of college. 

Top left: Leftover Ma po (no clue how to spell that) tofu, broccoli with garlic sauce, and white rice.

Rop right: Inside out carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting filling-made by my housemate and  best buddy Corrina. She tossed it into my lunch box while wishing me a "Happy first day of school!" What a sweetheart.

Bottom right: Fruit salad of blueberries, grapes, and three cherries. 

Bottom left: 50/50 spring mix and spinach salad with cherry tomatoes, walnuts, and light champagne dressing on the side. I'm planning on packing some feta crumbles under the lettuce for some extra yum. Pretty sure the odds are against me for remembering...wish me luck!