#healthy lunch

His: packed lunch of tuna salad sandwich with spinach and crudités, cherries, almonds and a dark chocolate Kit Kat!

Today i cracked open this magnum of Valentina : my favourite hot sauce for eggs/ breakfast!

Egg sandwiches are so fucking good, as long as the bread has got some grains in it.

I kept trying to post these lunches from last week but my phone kept shitting the bed!

I had my 5 grain salad every day with a variety of other snacks to keep me going for my whole work day!

I have no idea what I’m going to be eating for work lunch this week but I better figure it out fast!

5 Grain blend, cucumber, red pepper, tomato, and feta.

Sauce is a bit of olive oil, a bit of feta brine, Greek seasoning, and a touch of lemon pepper.

This recipe was made by a friend of mine over Christmas holiday and I really enjoyed it, so I’m excited to be able to have it for lunch this upcoming week.

Dinner with my ride or die was a big pile of tofu chow mein!

The leftovers from this will be tomorrow’s lunch too, which saves me so much time!

LUNCH! And breakfast, I don’t really eat breakfast on weekdays!

½ cucumber, whole yellow pepper, 3 laughing cow cheese with gluten free rice crackers, raspberries, a banana, a blood Orange, and a banana chocolate chip muffin.

HEALTH GOTH 2020.

I always want to burn everything down and start from the ground up when I feel like I’ve “failed” at something.

We aren’t going to count Health Goth as a failure, but I would like to stop ebbing and flowing between things and stick with this again, like I did in the summer.

Where I am- it’s cold. Like lots of heavy snowfall, colder than the surface of Mars cold. We have BRUTAL winters, it truly is the boreal wastelands, the frigid tundra.

It makes your moods do backflips. The highs of good days can feel so good and the lows of bad days can feel so so bad. The lows last longer too. They linger, like the cold does in the depths of your spine.

All that being said, I am ready to get back on track, ready to feel better again, ready to reclaim Health Goth.

So for everyone who stuck around, forgetting they were following this blog- Hi! I’m back. And for anyone who is just joining my journey- Welcome.

Let’s feel better, together.

⚔️

Work lunch of cucumbers, strawberries, rice crackers, banana, cheese, olives, and leftover farmer sausage.

Featuring my critters hopping around as I try to take my photos they were too cute to crop out!

I’ve been physically ill for the past week but I feel like I may be starting to feel a bit better, slowly but surely. Today I am apprenticing so hopefully everything goes well!

Friday lunch box vibes

Many different kinds of cheeses with some kielbasa, olives, pickles, and rice crackers.

I really love the texture and crunch of rice crackers and have always enjoyed snacking on them. I find them very salty and tasty!

small flatbread wraps with lettuce, cheese and turkey pastrami for lunch with some peppers, Turkish apricots, yogurt and granola.

Today’s lunch was a good one but reminded me how much I really don’t love wraps or sandwiches unless they’re Donair

I got this yogurt in the states this weekend, I’m not used to weird American food flavours but I enjoyed this one!

it’s almost the same lunch! but this one is a bit different.

I’m so excited that today is Friday. I’m going to be without my favorite coworker at work today because she’s super sick, which is a bummer, but at least it’s Friday and then I have my weekend to really catch up on some sleep!

what are you looking forward to this weekend?

I’m very into pasta salad these past two weeks, next week I’m going to mix it up and have something else but right now this has been a good lunch.

This one I made with tortellini, with some peppers and strawberries, some matcha alligators from Squish for a little sweet treat, my life’s blood - double bergamot, and a banana.

Yesterday was a really tough day emotionally. I couldn’t find myself invested in anything that went on, and I couldn’t really bring my energy levels up.

Today I’m running our Curse of Strahd D&D campaign for the first time in a couple months. I’ve been emotionally seperated from it for a while so it’s intimidating to start up again, but all I can do is my best.

2:00 brunch!

Yogurt, berries, bran and granola with a homegrown toasted tomato sandwich!

I slept super well last night which was nice, I can’t remember the last time I slept that well. The cool breeze through my windows and the smell of damp fall leaves was so comforting it was almost hypnotizing.

I love fall, I love Halloween, I can’t wait for more fall things in my life!

I haven’t been feeling well the past few days.

Barely sleeping, barely eating, general unwellness.

I made this lunch for myself yesterday and didn’t end up touching much of it due to feeling so unwell so that is both yesterday’s lunch and today’s.

Please note this is not a good example of proper eating and this is not a frequent pattern for me, but being honest about food here is important to me. People should be eating everyday and I stand behind that, but illness and sickness will impact that for sure.

Club House Sandwich at “Kua Aina” Kamakura Kanagawa Japan 14 Nov 2021 1500yen lunch

The sole mission going to the grocery store this past Saturday afternoon was to gather as many Greek and/or Mediterranean staples as fast as I could before being lured into purchasing all the specialty items that are all too appealing to a shopper whose stomach started rumbling 30 seconds after she left for the market. 

I managed to escape with minimal damage to my bank account. I consider my $15 Malbec an investment in my wine education - with it’s origin of a stony terroir and proclamations of deep cherry and black currant…

I got all the things I needed to eat Greek for about five days, or maybe a week if I water down the tzatziki a little lot. 

To prep for the week, I chopped up cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and red onion, added a small squeeze of lemon juice, tossed and refrigerated to use for Greek salads. 

Central market has an excellent array of Mediterranean side dishes in its to-go section, so surely I could replicate at least one of those with ease. Couscous with spinach and feta. Cook couscous, add spinach while warm, toss in some feta while cool. Refrigerate. Meh.

What did turn out fabulously was the tzatziki sauce, with a little help from Ina Garten.

1 container Fage plain nonfat Greek yogurt + ½ cucumber, grated + juice from ½ lemon

Cut cucumber in half, then cut lengthwise to scoop out the seeds. Grate one half, wrap in paper towel, and gently squeeze out excess water. Mix all ingredients in a bowl, cover, and refrigerate to allow the flavors to come together.

What I love about the Mediterranean diet, other than getting to play up my nostalgia for days spent traveling through southern Italy and Greece, is that I am always satisfied. Plenty of lean meats, fresh fruit and vegetables, protein-packed Greek yogurt. This is most likely a base description, but I’m happy, my wine glass is happy, my kitchen is happy, and due to my habit of playing Italian opera loudly when I cook, my neighbors most likely are not too happy.

The “fiesta” part is probably not very pc of me.. but it was basically a party in a bowl, so I will stand by my title.

• ½ chipotle-lime chicken breast (from Central Market) // grilled 
• guacamole // avocado + green salsa + diced onion + diced tomato + chopped cilantro 
• ¼ cup corn // roasted in a hot pan for a couple minutes 
• mixed greens // whatever floats your boat

** I later added more salsa because I used a kale mix and it needed a little extra something to hide the.. kaleness. to be perfectly honest

I have been complaining about being alone this weekend because everyone is out of town (and by everyone, I mean by roommate and my boyfriend). But really, it has been nice to have nothing to do except cook and workout and then blog about it. I guess it’s just weird not having homework to avoid - it’s making procrastinating less enjoyable since, well, it’s no longer procrastinating. You win, universe. You win. 

But I won with this bowl. Because it’s awesome. 

Thank goodness I already received my diploma. Based on this post it would be difficult to convince anyone I actually received a college degree.