Girl’s Gotta Eat

I have been getting creative in the kitchen since this week’s self-imposed supermarket ban (apparently I’m not the only one avoiding the market this week). And by “creative” I really mean boring and not blog-worthy. I think I’m doing OK getting my daily intake of fruits, veg, and vitamins, but I wouldn’t say the results have been culinarily spectacular. (I did not know “culinarily” was a word, but Ecto is all right with it and so am I.) We over at Notes On A Page have been enjoying some odd breakfasts, incoherent dinners and free pizza at a work meeting (hey, if it’s free I ain’t complaining). We did have Random Ingredients Burrito night. It started with this:

And then the Roommate blessedly brought home an avocado and a tomato so it turned into this (the corn clearly had better things to do than participate in my photoshoot):

At least I got some vegetables in with this monster wrap.

I also enjoyed my very first Oats in a Jar:

The jar fit quite handily into my lunchbox for a portable breakfast.

And then, last night I, like Heather, broke down and found myself in the supermarket. I only spent $10 and it was actually pretty necessary.

I get a lot of my daily protein from my morning oats (always made with some type of milk) and yogurt. And we were out of both. I admit I bought the Greek yogurt because it was a dollar and I want to see if Yoplait can hold a candle to Chobani. The cheese is getting paired with frozen dough and leftover sauce for pizza tomorrow night. You know groceries are sparse in my house when we have no cheese.

Speaking of sparse, check out the slim-pickings of my lunch tomorrow:

There’s not much green in there! Short of bringing an onion to munch on for lunch, I have to rely on the veggies in my orzo tuna salad. We have run out of granola as well, so that greek yogurt has to deal with always delicious but less nutritionally sound peanut butter Puffins. Ah, well. Can’t win ‘em all.

Since I went to bed late I planned ahead and made overnight oats to grab out of the fridge and eat at my desk in the morning. Behold:

Again, it’s not too pretty on the eyes. Hopefully if I throw some peanut butter in there it will suffice until lunchtime.

I think it’s safe to say the lunch is always greener in the other lunchbox.