Because this kind of feels like camping, doesn't it?

I just want to know what you're eating, though. I'm deciding between cereal and, uh, different cereal for breakfast. Inspire me.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Answers

Orange juice and a chocolate chip muffin. I'm so the queen of health.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Slightly green banana (just the right shade) for breakfast this morning.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Baklava for breakfast--I'm disgusting. It was great.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I just had a chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting and nuts. Damn! No wonder I'm not losing weight!

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

A nectarine for breakfast, and peppermint candy to stave off my hunger until lunch, when I will most likely have pizza. Thank goodness tomorrow is payday so I can go grocery shopping.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm on my way out for a taco salad.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Chicken Fried Steak leftover from last night.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had cereal for breakfast, a banana about an hour ago, and I'm contemplating heating up some pasta for lunch. I'm so glamorous.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Chicken and dumplings. It was the only thing left in the 'fridge.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had key lime pie yogurt and a banana for breakfast. I'll probably meander across the street for a yummy sammich for lunch. Mmmmmmm lunch....

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Pasta with a tomato-and-bean sauce.

Although I had ice cream for a mid-afternoon snack and frozen yoghurt for lunch. Bad me.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm NOT having sub sandwiches that were brought in for everyone up here where I work as a part of a going-away deal for someone I don't really know. I'm not having one because a huge crowd of people congregated around them, got their sandwiches and then just stood there jabbering with each other instead of moving out of the way.

I got an attack of shyness - I don't know them well enough to join the discussion (discreetly grabbing a sandwich in the process), and I don't feel comfortable just pushing past them to get one and the skulking off to my desk to eat my lunch alone.

I also don't feel like I can duck out and go buy my own lunch without having to fend of comments about why I didn't just take a sandwich.

So I'm not having a sandwich. Or anything else either. I'm not popular enough to have lunch. grumble- I'm just going to sit here having Jr. High flashbacks.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had a bowl of Advantage cereal for breakfast, with skim milk. Fairly boring.

For lunch, I got a veggie wrap and a strawberry and apple smoothie. The wrap turned out to be quite slimy and disgusting, but the smoothie was delicious, and more like pink lemonade than a smoothie really.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Lynda, you are doing what Jeremy calls That Thing You Do. (Only he means me, not you.) He would order you to go get a damn sandwich.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

It's taken me a long time to realize that self awareness doesn't keep me from being stupid sometimes.

But I found a bag of BBQ Fritos, and I'm choosing to pretend that was all I wanted for lunch anyway.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had Basic 4 cereal with yummy, yummy blueberries for breakfast. God, I love summer. I haven't eaten a banana in months! Plus, a coworker and I decided that if we didn't have enough guts to blow off work and go shopping downtown, we'd at least go out for lunch together. I'm gonna lobby for the Lebanese restaurant up the street. Two hours to go!

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm with guppy - I had a taco salad for lunch. It was fabulous.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Hee. I will confess that because I think of Lynda as this person who is vastly more mature, self-confident, and wise than I, I find it oddly comforting that she does That Thing too. The people around here are constantly clustering around the good food, and I get all afraid of the popular clique and miss the good food.

However, now that I am sharing an office with one of the popular clique, maybe I will join it now. And then some nice boy acn come along and convince me to put in contacts, cut my hair, and buy a slinky dress, and then everyone will fall in love with me!

Uh, topic. Currently eating a bowl of honey nut cheerios for lunch. With 2% milk, which feels terribly decadent to me as a usual skim- milk drinker.

I think it's going to be a late night at work, so dinner will probably be whatever pizza place I can find to deliver, unless I can talk Len into bringing me Wendy's or something.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I find I'm falling into the trap from when this forum was Greenspun originally. I just sign up for email alerts, read them, and never post replies. So I am trying to rectify that.

I am drinking a Timmy's tea, and I had a sandwich of shaved prosciutto salami and baby spinach on foccacia for lunch. I have an open tub of animal crackers here, but it is humid so they've gone kind of soggy and they are kind of gross.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had tea, an egg white omelet with onions and veggie sausage mixed in, a banana, and a small bowl of Reeses cereal for breakfast. That will last me until dinner, which might be cereal again because I'm not really hungry in the evenings these days. Last night I had cereal and a tomato cut up and sprinkled with salt. I love being a grown up sometimes - getting to eat whatever the hell you want for dinner rocks.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

You can sign up for email alerts?

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I had what is my current standard breakfast: Grapenuts and skim milk. Sounds dull but I'm finding it satisfying.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Catty: yes, I think there is a link on the front page about signing up for e-mail alerts. A lot of people used to follow this forum entirely by e-mail -- I had to disable about 50 old alerts when I reopened it.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm trying to figure out what to eat, maybe a grilled cheese sandwich. I'm taking a yoga class at 6:30, and they recommend that you don't eat for a couple hours before. But then I won't get home until after 8:30, and it's just too long for me to go from lunch allllll the way until then. So it's early dinner/late afternoon snack type food for me. Mmmm, cheese.....

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Thanks Beth. I'll check into it.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Breakfast: One small handful of really stale cereal (to test whether it was stale since I haven't been to the store in awhile). Bleh.

Lunch: Three french fries, which made me nausous, so I tossed the rest of the fries. The sandwich is in the fridge. (Lynda, you want it?)

Other: One bottle of Diet Pepsi, two Diet Pepsi bottles of water, and three cinnamon Altoids.

Dinner: Who knows...at this rate, possibly rice and veggies. I think.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm caught between two lovers: I don't know if I should go ahead and have the peanut butter and jelly sammich (on sprouted wheat! I'm so californian!) I've been craving or be all not-lazy and make myself some french toast, which I've also been craving, but have been stopped by worries that sprouted french toast is not so much going to make my heart happy.

My life, it is full of drama.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I made a big tub of fruit salad. Yumm. It'll be gone by tomorrow. It's weird, my family won't eat fresh fruit unless I cut it up and make a salad out of it and then they gobble it up. The peaches are really good now.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

A Santa Cruz sandwich from Whole Foods, basically a salad between two pieces of wheat bread. I had a bagel for breakfast since it is bagel day at work today. Later I will probably have some yummy tofu for dinner since Matt is playing at Rohan, and they make really good food, as well as drinks.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

My family was like that too, Kazzy. Drove my mother nuts.

We decided on Thai for lunch because they had outdoor seating. I had wide rice noodles stir-fried with veggies, basil and pork. Then a Seattle's Best raspberry mocha for dessert. I have blown my diet for today, but the giggly girl talk was so worth it.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Jeremy just bought me lunch at this mythical place near his office. They call it "The Candy Store" and I have heard many a tale of its greatness. It turns out that it's really called Fog Mountain and it is, in fact, a gourmet candy store. However, they also have lunch. An amazing lunch. I had a ham sandwich -- but it was a ham sandwich with asparagus and melty cheese and lemon aioli on crusty french bread. Very very good. You should get Jeremy to take you to lunch there, everybody.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

I'm totally hung over today. I really needed something greasy so I went to burger king and ate two cheese burgers and some onion rings. I don't like onion rings but the guy at the counter must of asked me if I wanted them..and I just nodded my fucking head. I suck at Spanish over here you guys! That's the first hamburger I've had since I read fast food nation last year. Man, it was good!

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

It's so hot and humid here, I'm eating wierd combinations of food. Whatever strikes my fancy as I'm walking past the fan, feel cooled down and scoff out of the fridge.

Today it was chicken breast (ina four pack from Sams Club), leftover orange salad (slice the skin and pith off two oranges, cut into rounds, lay on a plate, sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs (original recipe specs oregano, haven't planted any of that, so I substituted basil, sage, lemony herb that I can't remember the name of and thyme), tablespoons of red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, cracked black pepper. Fridge it as appetite gone completely in the time it took to make it, then come back and eat it when on a cold water run to fridge), and vanilla meringues.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2002

Out to lunch two days in a row! Today I'm going to Doc Chey's Noodle House with a friend. Neither of us has ever been there, oddly. This friend and I have a Thing where we usually go to the Varsity when we meet for lunch, and meeting for the occasional lunch is the only way we ever see each other. Well, she did come to my birthday party last October . . .

Anyway, so I'm having noodles.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Today, my near and dear co-workers that I like are here, and I'm going to talk them into walking with me down to a nearby Mexican restaurant because they have a ceviche salad there that is so good that I dreamed about it last night.

If necessary, I can walk myself down there and have it, but it's the kind of place that's more fun with multiple people.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Right now I'm scarfing down fresh tomato, cucumber and onion salad. I was feeling very hungry even tho it's not lunch time yet. We have a guy that's retiring and he said he'd buy pizza for us today but he's been in and left and told everyone goodbye so we have no clue if he's still buying pizza or if we're on our own.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Fog Mountain is only open M-F 10-5:30 -- that is so unfair.

On the other hand, the Kahlua cake and panini from Ettore's almost makes up for it.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Yeah, that's why you need a boyfriend who works down there. I think I'm going to make him bring me lunch from there the next time I work at home -- they're mostly a take-out place.

I ate at McDonald's today. I shall be writhing in pain for the rest of the afternoon.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Julia- grapenuts are only good with lots of sugar. :) I had two pieces of potato-bread toast with butter, cinnamon, and sugar. And sparkling concord grape juice in this very funky red-white-and-blue stars'n'stripes bottle. The horrible WalMart will make anything 'pattiotic'.

That was hours ago, so i think left-over homemade enchilladas with lots of sour cream will be my lunch/dinner kind of thing.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Grape-Nuts are also good baked into muffins for a little crunch.

Lunch was leftover Thai from yesterday. Right now I'm wondering how I'm going to get through the afternoon without stealing a donut from Accounting. Tonight, I'm thinking chili, even though it's hot.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Grape-Nuts are best stirred into yogurt, actually.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Well, I caved. Mmmm. Top Pot donuts on Summit in Seattle -- they're better than Krispy Kreme, and I don't say that lightly.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Breakfast was a wheat bagel with cashew butter and honey--I don't even care that cashews (and their butter) taste so good because they're higher in fat than peanuts (not skimpy on fat themselves).

Dinner was a lovely mushroom risotto, to which I added some random broccoli, just because I had fresh broccoli--and it was an easy way to sneak a small quantity of green veggies into G's diet.

His was with just parmesan, but I chopped up a fresh tomato to sprinkle on top of mine with the freshly ground pepper because I love the bright/rich & cold/hot contrasts.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2002

Can you even get Grape Nust in Canada? Or am I just living in a no- grape nut zone? Cause I lve stuff in my yoghurt, and that sounds great.

Speaking of youghurt, I'm eating a Peach-Vanilla Source yoghurt. It's all good for me, with its no sugar or fat. Yet it tastes yummy!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

We have Grape-Nuts in Ontario. They're in the cereal aisle, in by the granola/oatmeal/bran cereals. The box is teeny, but it lasts a long time!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

I'm at work again (blah), and on the way in I stopped to pick up a turkey sub (foot-long so I can save one half for dinner if I'm here that long), coke, and a little bag of Hershey's Assorted Miniatures. This has led me to my burning food question of the day. Do full- sized Krackels exist? I know full sized Hershey's bars exist, and I'm pretty sure I've seen a full-sized Mr Goodbar. But I don't think I've ever seen a full-sized Krackel. Do they only exist in tiny versions?

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

Huh. I don't think I've ever seen a full-sized Krackel bar. This is now bothering me. Frankly, Krackel and Special Dark are the only good parts of the Assorted Miniature family, and I don't think you can buy either one alone and fully grown.

It's a conspiracy, obviously.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

I know that full-sized Krackels USED to exist, but I couldn't confirm that they are currently available. Since I no longer buy chocolate, you know.

I heart Krackels.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

I'm glad I'm not the only person who finds this disconcerting. I emailed five or six different people this morning hoping someone would tell me whether full-sized Krackels exist, but so far no one has answered me. It could be that they all have lives, but I suspect it's just that they think I'm weird and don't want to talk to me anymore.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

Krackels may not exist full-size, but Nestle Crunch do, and they're the exact same thing only a little bit better. And they're slightly bigger then a full-sized Hershey bar. Hehehe.

Cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Wheee!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

I haven't seen normal sized Krackels, but I've seen KING SIZED ones. You know, the ones that are a little too thick and big?

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

i found evidence on the hershey website pointing towards the existence of full-sized special dark bars, but not krackel. very mysterious.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

Dinner was fresh sliced turkey breast on a toasted poppy seed bagel with lettuce, tomato, red onion, mayo, and a sprinkle of ground black pepper. For dessert, an Edy's Whole Fruit lemonade bar.

Oh, what a happy girl I am when I don't have to turn on the stove in the midst of a heat wave.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2002

Dinner is Taco Bell. To go. The things we do for you people ...

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2002

Salad! Arugula and spinach and romaine lettuce, with red onion and some organic ginger-vinaigrette dressing. Of course, I'll probably follow the healthy salad dinner with cookies, but it's vitamins! Good for me!

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2002