Lunch!
Posted by Becky on 8th Feb in Food. Tags: baking, lunch, vegetarian
It may come as no surprise that I love lunch. It’s such an awesome meal of the day, one that I think most people don’t pay enough attention to. It’s really funny how everyone focuses so much on dinner, but not lunch or breakfast, and end up eating out or binging. It’s sad, because breakfast and lunch (especially lunch!) are just awesome. Breakfast is perfect for things like pancakes, breakfast burritos, oatmeal (!!!), fruit, and the best food ever, potatoes. Lunch opens up all new opportunities! Hate breakfast food? Make dinner food! In the mood for breakfast food? You can do that too!
I know it’s weird to ramble on about food, but I was thinking about how much better a day can be when you have a really good lunch to look forward to and eat. Lately I’ve been craving salads – salads with oil and vinegar, salads with croutons, but especially salads with Cashew Tamari Dressing, which unfortunately is a local staple of Austin (if you do live in Austin though, check Fresh Plus in Hyde Park or Whole Foods downtown!). I love the flavor of it – it’s basically oils with cashew, and it’s sweet and savory. Combine that with the slightly bitter flavor of spring lettuce and grapefruit juice, and you’ve got a winning combination.
I love vegetables. Most of you already know, but I’m a vegetarian for environmental reasons. The production of beef especially pollutes the atmosphere and takes valuable grains and food away from the poor. It’s also full of saturated fats and the government subsidizes it, so that’s why you can get a burger at McDonald’s for a buck. Not to mention most meat production is cruel to the animals. Because of these reasons, I don’t eat any types of meat or beef byproducts (milk, butter) with the exception of cheese. Furthermore, every single nutrition finding that scientists make always points back to the same exact thing: vegetables are really good for you. I don’t like to talk about it because people tend to get very touchy about it, but understand I’m not pushing my beliefs or feelings on any of you. I encourage you to eat what you want and what you like, and respect others to do the same.
Food is so important to who we are and how we feel, and I feel so much better now that I’m eating a variety of fruits and vegetables. When I first went vegetarian, it was really hard to know what to pick and what to buy, and it took awhile to stop eating spaghetti and macaroni and cheese only and start eating more vegetables. Despite loving vegetables, it’s not something you really think of a lot of the time.
Other foods that are awesome for lunch: pesto sandwiches/pasta, frozen veggies and freshly baked bread, hardboiled eggs, potato anything, bananas, apples, pickles. My favorite lunches are when I throw a variety of small snacks in my lunchbox – nuts, a banana, a pickle, a slice of bread, an egg. Then I can snack as I get hungry and not overeat! It’s awesome.
What is your favorite lunch? What’s your favorite meal of the day? What sorts of things do you enjoy eating most of all? How do you perceive food in general?
4 Responses to “Lunch!”
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I’m not a big veggie fan. I’m really picky with them. And while I’m also picky with meat, I love ground beef, spam, hot dogs, and chicken to give them up to be a full vegetarian XD. They are especially good with fresh kimchi. Nom nom nom.
I actually hardly eat breakfast. I’m just not hungry when I wake up. I usually don’t eat until two-three hours after I wake up ~_~;; Therefore, I’m the person who believes that breakfast food can be eaten any time of day. I always squeal when I find restaurants that do twenty-four hour breakfast.
My favourite food lately involves ramen, fried rice, rice cake soup (tteokguk), and kebabs (or shwarma, whatever it’s called). Oh, and potatoes are awesome. I could eat those Burger King’s hash brown or country fried potatoes all day long! Oh and curry chips. Yummmmm.
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Oddly, although I’ve never given much thought to eating seasonally, I can’t stand summer foods in winter–that would be RIGHT NOW. My brain just won’t process the very idea of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers until about March. Berries? What are those? (Also, they are exorbitantly expensive in winter.) (But I did buy a tripleberry *jam* the other day. I can eat those during the winter.)
So my vegetables right now are carrots (stewed or sauteed but not cut into the thin strips they do for salads), parsnips sometimes, broccoli, lots and lots of POTATOES and onions. I do eat some of these in the summer too since they all grow then too, but then there’s such a wondrous amount of vegetables to eat that I don’t pay as much attention to them. Tomatoes in late summer are heaven!
How do I want a vegetable garden, let me count the ways!
Oh! I think breakfast is my favorite meal, when I have to cook for myself, because that’s (almost) always some variation of eggs.
If someone else were cooking then I love dinner because I love eating with my family. -
Dang. I like me some grains. Bread is my vice, with jam as its accomplice. There’s nothing quite like a crispy slice of toast loaded with some fruit, accompanied by a warm cup of earl gray in the morning. I’m also a huge fan of strawberries in sugar or cream – both are ridiculously delicious.
I’m a firm believer in eating at least three meals a day – breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus some kind of fourth meal. I don’t like to wait around if I’m feeling hungry – my mood really dips when I forget to eat or don’t have time. But what’s even more important than eating healthy food is actually doing something with it, like going for a walk or taking a bike ride. Since I commute by bike to work every day, I get a pretty decent workout, which makes use of the tasty foods I eat. On weekends, I sometimes go for really long bike rides – this can require me to chow down on some rather high-caloric foods.
Anyway, yay for stuff that is grown from dirt. It’s stupidly cheap, stupidly easy to grow in your own yard, and stupidly awesome for your health. What’s not to love?
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I am vegan so I eat very similarly to your lunches. My favorite things include hummus and obviously salads.
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