Chip's lunch: July 23, 2010

Oh, breakfast for lunch. We've had a crazy past 36 hours, including a dog fight in our house, two trips to the emergency vet, and surgery and stitches for poor little Emmy. I didn't get to sleep on Wednesday night at all, so I woke up from a nap on Thursday at 10 p.m.(!!!) and threw this together. Breakfast for lunch is often quicker to throw together than lunch for lunch, and that was the idea here. While the omelet cooked, I made everything else, and all in all it only took about ten minutes. And then I went back to bed!



Organic Fuji apple, Navel orange, raw almonds, organic creamy wheat cereal with organic vanilla and a tiny sprinkle of brown sugar, and a pastured egg omelet with Cheddar and asparagus.

Chip's lunch: July 8, 2010

Breakfast for lunch! We have eggs to use up , so I decided to make an omelet. Then I read this post about making your own instant oatmeal, so I whipped up some of that (I skipped the salt though). I haven't included oatmeal in a lunch before because we don't buy the instant kind, and cooking the regular kind can get messy in a microwave. Chip will just add some boiling water to this and be done with it! Once I had those two things made, I added the apple. And then I nearly drove myself insane trying to figure out what else I could pack. I begged Chip to take some mandarin oranges. "I hate those things." Come on, Chip! "Why? It's not hurting you." Um, yes it is hurting me.

Chip saved the day, however, when I asked him if he liked cherries. "Well, I like cherry pie." Done. We have tons of cherries from our CSA, and while I eat white cherries like candy (and have pit-spitting contests with my dad), I'm not so into the red ones. Though they are really beautiful. I looked up a quick and easy recipe for cherry pie filling, which confirmed that it's really basic and easy. So I pitted a bunch of cherries, then added a pinch of evaporated cane juice and some flour to thicken. He can either dip the bits of bagel in the cherries, or spread the cherries on the bagel. It's ridiculous how excited I get when I learn that Chip secretly likes a fruit or vegetable.

Oh, and because everyone always wants to know about the apples: I squeezed a little bit of fresh lime juice on these apple slices. They were beginning to turn brown within about 10 minutes of cutting them.



Homemade instant oatmeal with organic local oats, organic Sultana golden raisins, evaporated cane juice, and cinnamon, organic Pink Lady apple, organic locally-made bagel, CSA cherries, and an omelet with pastured eggs, Cheddar, and organic baby spinach.

Chip's lunch: March 26, 2010

It's finally Friday! And apparently the weather has gone insane. Today it was 60 degrees, and now it is 33 degrees, and later this evening it will be snowing. Where am I? This is my first spring in Ohio and this is just bizarre! I'm reminded of the Lewis Black bit: "There was thunder, lightning, and snow, together! And I hadn't done drugs. 'Cause when you're lying in bed, and you hear thunder outside and you get up to look, you have an expectation. And it's not snow with lightning behind it. That kind of weather isn't even written about in the Bible."

So anyway, with this crazy snow and cold coming through, I figured some comfort food was in order. I successfully made an omelet, which was new...I've never made one before, ever. Chip's in for quite the shock.



Pastured egg omelet with cheddar, asparagus, and Parmesan, organic local applesauce (with organic cinnamon, organic vanilla, organic nutmeg, and organic allspice), organic banana, organic roasted and salted sunflower seeds, organic macadamias, organic Thompson raisins, organic raw almonds, and a homemade vegan carrot spice muffin.