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Your lunch yesterday just inspired me to make something better than pb & j... I will spread some alouette on ww bread & top with onion sauce & a slice or 2 of pork tenderloin (leftover from dinner last night). Maybe use some greens from the garden & squeeze a little lemon or lime on top. Yum!

I brought leftovers from last night's dinner to school with me--a few slices of pork, rubbed with ancho, cayenne, and cumin with a spicy yoghurt sauce, some roasted cauliflower, carrot slices, and a plum!

slices of salami, sottocenere, smoked gouda, baguette, and green grapes from fairway. yummy desk picnic.

Leftover asparagus bread pudding with strawberries on the side.

It's beautiful, but you may need more protein later. High on carbs.

A spinach salad with roasted cauliflower, carrots, and chickpeas with Fairway's Spring Joy dressing (a creamy dressing that's a little fruity with a dash of soy and ginger), and some mean green soup (my silly name for it).

For the soup I took a bag each of frozen chopped spinach, frozen broccoli, and frozen peas. Put all those in a big pot with about 2 cups of water and a Rapunzel veggie stock cube. Brought it to a boil, and simmered until everything was thawed. Then turned off the heat and pureed with an immersion blender and seasoned with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Made 4 big bowls and 2 smaller bowls.

Cheese cubes and crackers; sliced radishes and local cucumbers, an orange, and some vanilla yogurt.

I have a pasta salad with onion, garlic, broccoli, zucchini, capers, olives and artichoke hearts; strawberry and blueberry fruit salad; a banana; and some smoked almonds and cashews.

I've got left over BBQ chicken, sticky rice, and some sliced tomato and avacado with lime, salt and pepper.
It's pretty tasty!

I had a field green salad with bleu cheese, diced pink lady apple, a Quorn brand naked chicken breast, and balsamic vinegar and oil. Needed some type of nut or seed to make it a perfect lunch.

Homemade vegan tamales stuffed with seitan and ancho chile sauce. A big side of raw kale marinated overnight in lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt & pepper. Should keep me full until dinner time. Enjoying now a cup of peppermint tea, my usual post-lunch beverage.

I've been cleaning out the freezer for the last month or two and made "fake gumbo" last night that will get me through today and tomorrow's lunches. It consisted of a bag of frozen gumbo veggies, some quartered and sliced frozen sausage, half an onion, a can of tomato sauce, and some creole seasonings. Not for the purist, but gets the job done and is darn tasty, plus the prep time was less than 5 minutes. I just let it simmer for 30 and threw it in the fridge in a few of my grab n go containers. Added some basmati rice leftovers... mmm.

Whole wheat English muffin open faced sandwiches with crabmeat, garbanzo beans,grape tomatoes and cucumbers. This was very hard to eat, the ingredients kept falling off. But it tasted good. And some red seedless organic grapes for dessert.