I have been depending on my husband to make my lunches lately. He gives me wilted salads and brown lettuce and just plain old plain old chicken. I am sorry, but I need innovative lunches. I get really sick sick sick of the same old salad every day and old lettuce to boot. I appreciate what he does for me, but if he didn't, I would have to do it for myself. He also throws everything he can find from the fridge in my lunch bag and they are things that should really go in the garbage. He cleans out the fridge and sends it to work with me! I just throw it out at work. LOL. The last few days, he gave me old salad (the kind from the bag) and threw some new lettuce on top. Like I wouldn't notice? The new lettuce was from my son who grew it himself. I remade my salad at lunch and threw out the old lettuce and kept the new.

So last night, tada! I made my lunch myself. I found lots of wonderful things in the fridge that were good and made my own salad! Fresh lettuce (from my son's garden), black beans, marinated mushrooms that my daughter made and lo-fat cheddar cheese. Now I am looking forward to lunch and not thinking about what I can go out and find.

So here is another dilemma. I love summer salads and fruits, but when it starts getting cold I want something warm to eat. Salad just doesn't do it when you are cold to start with and then you have a cold salad. I need to switch to something healthy and warm. I don't know what that would be other than leftovers or soup. Another problem is, that I hate eating in the lunch room at work. It feels like prison. So in the nice weather I go sit at a park or something and eat my lunch. Last winter, I spent my lunchtime at Starbucks and brought my lunch in with me, which worked pretty well, except that, I bought mocha's and they have a lot of calories. There is nothing healthy at SB's except maybe tea. But I like sitting on their big couch, it feels cozy, and I bring my knitting with and it's almost like being at home. I discovered the couch at Panera's recently, so that also would be an option, but they have way too many temptations there. Heaven knows I can't get the healthy soup, but have to have the Broccoli-Cheddar soup! They have good salads too, but winter and salad just don't go together for me. Once in a while, but not every day.

So I need to find ways of combing a little protein with a little vegetable for my lunch. I can do the lunchroom if I have to, but my lunch needs to be really, really good........... LOL.