Healthy Lunch Ideas – Make Your Lunch Great!

This morning I awoke to tragedy.
I put my brand new Esperanza whole beans from Ritual into my coffee grinder, pressed the button, and the machine officially died. (The grinding blades were ripped off of the attachment.
My special coffee was ruined, the machine is dead, and I became very grumpy.

Fortunately I had some pre-ground [...]

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I used to dread Monday. Well, most people dread Monday.
We are supposed to hate Monday, right? Society dictates that Monday is a horrible, tragic, no good day – when you are a kid it’s the day you have to go back to school and slave away. As an adult, the day that the good life [...]

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Let me tell you, a day where you only check email twice is a pleasant day indeed. When I got home, instead of grabbing my computer to mindlessly check my email and surf the net, I consciously kept the laptop closed.
I grabbed a small handful of granola to munch on while doing some homework, cleaning, [...]

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I’ve started on a week long media-fast. At least, my version of a media fast, which is more like a “restricted media diet”. I plan on checking my mail twice a day, at noon and 5pm. My RSS feed will remain unchecked until next week. And I’m not going to watch inordinate amounts of television. [...]

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This morning I walked with my cup of coffee over to Omnivore Books to have breakfast at Peter Reinhart’s bread talk. I’ll write more about it on thesecondlunch – but meanwhile, here are a few pictures of my breakfast.
I ate one of these:

A little on of these:

A little bite of one of these:

And two bites [...]

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I’ve been finishing up all my loose ends this week, and not quite getting everything done on time. So, I’m a little behind here:
Last Night’s Dinner:
1. The last of some home made granola. I can’t share the recipe, because it’s still in testing (and isn’t mine to share, alas), but I can attest to it [...]

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I’ve been taking the day to get some errands out of the way. In the house, because it was raining for most of the day – why does it always rain on my days that I’m not working in a specific place?
I ate my way through some food leftovers, which leads to some of my [...]

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“Green Stuff in a Blender” Soup.

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Last night during Sunshine cleaning, I munched on some more trader joe’s high fiber oh’s and a tiny square of oh-so-delectable Lindt coconut white chocolate. I try not to snack after dinner, but sometimes it just happens. As soon as I finished, I signed myself online for a yoga class this morning so I couldn’t [...]

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Michael Recchiuti and Fran Gage at Omnivore to talk about their book ‘Chocolate Obession‘ – meant a lunch of Hot Chocolate!

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