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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.

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?

I just had a turkey sandwhich (nothing special) and my snack in an hour will be a Golden Blush apple.

Not to be a Nazi, but why is your yogurt not homemade?

I'm having leftover herb-encrusted veal in a white wine sauce, and a carrot salad.

(Oh, both homemade.)

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.

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.

I'm having a wrap with (mayo-free) Tuna Salad with Cilantro and Jalepeno (from Sara Foster's Fresh Every Day cookbook) and spinach.

17 bean soup....so good.

Tuna salad (a can of tuna mixed with cottage cheese, curry powder, and half a diced cucumber) on a whole wheat english muffin.

Pepper turkey on mini-baguette with arugula and brillat-savarin cheese. Mmmmm

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!

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.

Fried egg BLT.

Cottage fries drizzled with a little guajillo salsa.

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...)

mushroom, caramelized onion & spinach quesadilla-homemade

It's a food cart lunch for me on this grey day. Pork yakisoba...my current addiction.

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.

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....)

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

Homemade lemon-scented quinoa salad (101 cookbooks recipe,) and a frozen three cheese pizza from Trader Joe's. You win some; you lose some.

Soup from Fairway, tangelos and French bread.

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.

"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."