8:00 a.m. I’m strolling into work and as I put my issues away, I see a sight that brings tears to my eyes: a container of oatmeal raisin cookies on an workplace counter. I like mornings like these when a hospital volunteer brings in baked items. I take two cookies.
8:35 a.m. I’ve one other cookie.
12:20 p.m. For lunch, I choose up a Pub Sub, or made-to-order sub, from the closest Publix, since I’ve no meals within the fridge moreover a bag of questionably edible olives and instantaneous cheese grits. I’m pretty new to the Pub Sub, having by no means eaten one earlier than I moved to Florida. This was very scandalous amongst my colleagues, and it felt like a ceremony of passage ordering one for the primary time—there was chanting and all the pieces. Anyway, in the present day I get the Boar’s Head Turkey Entire Sizzling Sub ($10.14) with turkey breast, white bread, swiss cheese, onions, cucumbers, spinach, banana peppers, black olives, salt, pepper, lettuce, tomato, and further sub sauce. Toasted, which is new for me. Normally I desire it unheated, however I’m in my twenties and feeling adventurous.
5:35 p.m. I obtained paid on Friday and at last have the vitality to get some grocery procuring accomplished after work. I pop over to Dealer Joe’s. I feel TJ’s is so interesting as a result of it’s easy to decide on what you need and there aren’t forty million totally different choices for angel hair pasta. I fill up on many gadgets, together with a bag of frozen falafel ($3.99), sliced roasted turkey breast ($5.99), mini orange cranberry scones ($4.49), chili onion crunch hummus ($3.99), Japanese fried rice ($3.79), homestyle flour tortillas ($2.99), lean floor beef ($7.99), and actually large blueberries ($4.99), with the merchandise code being “BLUEBERRIES REALLY BIG,” which made me giggle. I get many extra fruits, veggies, and condiments, all for a complete of $100.05. If all goes to plan, this can final me till my subsequent paycheck.
6:30 p.m. With the substances I simply purchased, I make a chickpea salad and put together taco bowls. For the salad: I combine two cans of garbanzo beans, about half a jar inexperienced olives (measuring with the center right here), a spoonful of Dijon, some chopped-up turkey breast slices, three shallots (I like the onion household), chopped cilantro, and chopped mozzarella in a bowl. I add some crimson wine vinegar and olive oil to decorate.
Don’t make the identical mistake I did when shopping for the inexperienced olives, although. I couldn’t discover any pitted ones and didn’t really feel like venturing to a different retailer only for one merchandise, and pondering that it wouldn’t be that troublesome to simply come out the pit (naive younger lady I used to be), I obtained the jar of normal complete olives. I spend a lot time meticulously carving off the olive flesh from the pit one piece at a time. It was value it although—the salad was bomb.
Monday whole: $110.19
Tuesday
12:30 p.m. I’m off Wednesdays and Thursdays, so I’m in a chipper temper as a result of in the present day looks like a Friday. For lunch, I serve myself one hefty portion of the now chilled chickpea salad, some carrots, and Dealer Joe’s chili onion crunch hummus. I now notice how chickpea-heavy this meal is, and truthfully, how chickpea-heavy all my meals are. I can’t complain—what a beautiful legume. Now that I’m on this practice, I simply Googled why garbanzo beans are additionally known as chickpeas and stumbled throughout many blogs about this, and I’m glad that it’s plaguing everybody else’s existence prefer it so just lately has my very own.
