Salad, Bar-None

(photo: Lunch.)

Sandwiches are temples to everything good about eating. So why have I given them up for salads for lunch most days?

1. I can make 4 day's worth of salads in 10 minutes on Sunday night for the two of us for 10 bucks a person.
2. I can do it up exactly how I want - that salad above is field greens, turkey breast, red peppers, 2-year-old cheddar and bleu cheese dressing. And it's AMAZING.
3. I'm always treated to a freshly assembled meal instead of a sandwich that's sat in a bag on the train every day.
4. Sandwiches should be treated like special occasion food; nothing's quite as sad as a mediocre sandwich.
5. If I bring the component parts of lunch to work, it's almost like I'm cooking for myself. That's a good thing, and puts me into a much nicer place than grabbing something from the fridge and eating it.

But the biggest thing, and this is something that's slowly changing the way I feel about eating in general, is while I spend most of my time wanting a sandwich, (who doesn't?) I don't actually need one every day. I spend all day in front of a computer - I don't need a truckload of carbs to get me through it. I barely need any, really, and if I'm better about what I eat for lunch, I can go a little nuts when it comes time to cook dinner. It isn't a diet so much as a compromise.

And for the moment, I actually think I'm okay with it.

Slaw Disposal Method 1

It didn't occur to me, though it probably should have, that having too many radishes to eat in a week and turning those radishes into slaw would inevitably result in having too much slaw to eat.
...So I've been putting it on pretty much everything. For the record, that's turkey, muenster, slaw, cucumber and mayo piled onto rye, and it was epic.

Next, I'm thinking omelets.