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What's For Lunch? Blueberry Yogurt and Homemade Graham Crackers

2008_04_09-BrownBag.jpgWe often end up eating what amounts to nursery food for lunch during the week - simple meals of toast and jam and fruit. Here's our lunch - yogurt with honey and semi-frozen organic wild blueberries from Trader Joe's, next to homemade graham crackers.

What are you eating for lunch today? Something homemade? Semi-homemade?

 
 

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• Recipe: DIY Graham Crackers

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That looks good. I'm having Trader Joe's vegetarian meatballs in a homemade chunky vegetable sauce, with an orange on the side.

posted by snickitysnack on April 9th 2008 at 7:20am
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The absolute best yogurt I've ever had was Fage ("Fa'yeh") Greek strained yogurt, found at Trader Joe's.
I top it with TJ's Low Fat Granola with Almonds, fresh strawberries, fresh or frozen blueberries, or any other fruit i have at the time and a drizzle of good honey.
I tend to go easy on the yogurt though, because it's so dense and rich. A little goes a long way.

Yum yums!

I'd like to try out some home made graham crackers though...
anyone have a good recipe?

posted by lohtas on April 9th 2008 at 7:24am
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I just had a turkey sandwhich (nothing special) and my snack in an hour will be a Golden Blush apple.

posted by Squirrely on April 9th 2008 at 7:25am
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Not to be a Nazi, but why is your yogurt not homemade?

posted by carrier on April 9th 2008 at 7:30am
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I'm having leftover herb-encrusted veal in a white wine sauce, and a carrot salad.

posted by Carla Jean on April 9th 2008 at 7:34am
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(Oh, both homemade.)

posted by Carla Jean on April 9th 2008 at 7:34am
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Since this morning was a sleep-through-the-alarm-morning, I am going togo out to buy a small salad for lunch today, though I did manage to grab a hunk of (my mom's) homemade bread to have with it.

posted by lizb on April 9th 2008 at 7:40am
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I'm recovering from oral surgery, so everything I eat has to be soft. I made a coconut-red curry chicken soup, to which I added spinach and soba noodles. I know both make the soup inauthentic, but I have to pack as much nutrition into my mush as possible. I used store-bought red curry paste and coconut milk, but otherwise the soup is homemade.

posted by Julie on April 9th 2008 at 7:44am
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I'm having a wrap with (mayo-free) Tuna Salad with Cilantro and Jalepeno (from Sara Foster's Fresh Every Day cookbook) and spinach.

posted by jon (in Columbus) on April 9th 2008 at 7:59am
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17 bean soup....so good.

posted by zero on April 9th 2008 at 8:04am
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Tuna salad (a can of tuna mixed with cottage cheese, curry powder, and half a diced cucumber) on a whole wheat english muffin.

posted by prolix on April 9th 2008 at 8:05am
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Pepper turkey on mini-baguette with arugula and brillat-savarin cheese. Mmmmm

posted by carignane on April 9th 2008 at 8:12am
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I saw a recipe for smores cupcakes earlier today and now that I have a homemade graham cracker recipe I think I will try to make totally homemade cupcakes- yum!

posted by http://badhuman.wordpress.com on April 9th 2008 at 8:26am
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17 beans! I don't know if I could name 17 different beans... but my MIL made a bean soup over the weekend that was AWESOME. She used a ham hock, homemade chicken stock, tons of different beans, and sprinkled parmesan over the top. I love the way homemade stock gels when you put it in the fridge.... it gives the soup such a rich mouthfeel that you just don't get from canned.

posted by SisterRae on April 9th 2008 at 8:33am
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Fried egg BLT.

Cottage fries drizzled with a little guajillo salsa.

posted by art on April 9th 2008 at 8:34am
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Vanilla yogurt and homemade granola with lots of nuts and dried cranberries.

(And, in the interest of full disclosure, three chocolate-covered peanut butter balls that a co-worker brought in...)

posted by mel.d on April 9th 2008 at 8:39am
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mushroom, caramelized onion & spinach quesadilla-homemade

posted by rachel on April 9th 2008 at 8:44am
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It's a food cart lunch for me on this grey day. Pork yakisoba...my current addiction.

posted by JenPDX on April 9th 2008 at 8:46am
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A mixed greens salad with salty olives and red wine/olive oil dressing, a side of artichokes and green peas in a garlic/thyme/lemon sauce, and, an apple.

posted by s in DC on April 9th 2008 at 8:49am
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Wednesdays are my 'treat myself to lunch' days. Today will probably be Kung Pao chicken as I've had a craving for it for a couple of weeks now and one thing about cravings like this is that they don't go away until I satisfy them! (I should really find a recipe and try my hand at making it at home, sometime. Hmmm....)

posted by laetitiae on April 9th 2008 at 8:50am
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A really good personal size cheese pizza from the cafeteria and a bunch of snow peas and sugar snap peas that I was able to grab before leaving home this am. Also, chocolate for dessert.

posted by Pixie on April 9th 2008 at 9:06am
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Braised black beluga lentils with celery over short grain brown rice. The lentil recipe is from Mark Bittman's 'How to Cook Everything Vegetarian', a book I cannot recommend enough. Plus some freeze dried strawberries from Trader Joes (now, if they were only organic!). Snack later is cheddar cheese and carrot sticks.

Boy though, a fried egg blt sounds so good art! And I like the sounds of your tuna/cottage cheese salad prolix!

posted by thesamanthafiles on April 9th 2008 at 9:14am
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I had leftovers of the pasta with broccoli sauce I made after seeing the recipe here yesterday! We ate it for dinner last night with a few alterations. It was so good, I kind of had to talk my boyfriend into saving some for today so we could grab containers from the fridge this morning and go.

posted by gogoalix on April 9th 2008 at 9:18am
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I had a frozen chicken pot pie that I left in the office freezer 3 months ago. I forgot my lunch today, so it was all I had to eat without going out and getting something too greasy and too expensive.

it was a sad little pot pie...

posted by revolution9 on April 9th 2008 at 9:57am
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Tomato Soup with Egg, Ham and Cheese on an English Muffin.
I almost always have some variation of soup and crackers, or soup and small sandwich, with a fruit for dessert.

posted by Zaya on April 9th 2008 at 9:57am
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hummus, a whole wheat pita, some salami, half an avocado, and some cottage cheese on rye crackers. yes, it was "throw all the random stuff left in the fridge onto a plate" day.

posted by kat98 on April 9th 2008 at 10:00am
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I steamed 2 gorgeous Globe artichokes in homemade lobster stock and I'm pairing it with a classic clam cream cheese dip. Dreaming of the beach today....

posted by mangabanga on April 9th 2008 at 11:09am
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i forgot the lunch i packed at home. i raided the hispanic market near my work and came away with a baguette, an avocado, a block of monterey cheese for which i'll keep in the leftovers in the office fridge, and just enough carnitas from their deli to have a lovely sandwich. strawberries for dessert and an orange for later. it came in pretty cheap, and there's leftovers of everything.

posted by lindsey kathlene on April 9th 2008 at 11:31am
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this is the longest i've gone without buying lunch (5 days!) sad i know. but i'm learning! lately i've been having a salad with grilled chicken and a vinaigrette dressing. today i went home ot have a salad with feta, and made myself a grilled cheese sandwich.

posted by ako_si_jen on April 9th 2008 at 11:54am
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Homemade lemon-scented quinoa salad (101 cookbooks recipe,) and a frozen three cheese pizza from Trader Joe's. You win some; you lose some.

posted by SarahLynn on April 9th 2008 at 12:10pm
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Soup from Fairway, tangelos and French bread.

posted by sciencegeek on April 9th 2008 at 3:29pm
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I would have brought leftover spaghetti arrabiata, but I had a lunch meeting, so instead I had some kind of Vietnamese noodle and shrimp dish. It was tasty.

posted by erin79 on April 9th 2008 at 5:01pm
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"Not to be a Nazi, but why is your yogurt not homemade?
posted by carrier on 2008-04-09 12:30:31"

I agree with carrier on this one...homemade Nazi yoghurt is the way to go.

My favorite recipe is from Herr Fuhrer himself, a noted vegetarian. It's a simple blend of Bavarian milk and cream cultured with Lactobacillus teutonicus--a genetically superior culture native to Deutchland, and purified by Nazi scientists of the vile, inferior, rat-like bateria that had penetrated and defiled the pure teutonicus stock. Give it a taste yourself; you'll undoubtedly sceam "Heil Flavor!"

And not to be a Nazi, but yoghurt should really be spelled with an "h."

posted by vadervi on April 10th 2008 at 4:38pm
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