Healthy Lunch Ideas – Make Your Lunch Great!

This morning was a quiet one – I read for a little while, got done some errands, and finally sat down to a late breakfast. My theory is better late than never – particularly because if I don’t eat breakfast, when I get to lunch, I’m ravenous, and I’ll crave lunch foods and overeat. It’s [...]

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There is a little voice in my head telling me all the things that I need to do. Most of the time it’s a good voice. Eat breakfast. Walk a few more blocks before getting on the MUNI. Go to bed before midnight and the homework fairy (ok, nowadays the sanity fairy) will bless you. [...]

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I didn’t make it to Frances tonight. (I will soon! I will!) I made it to my couch. And then briefly to the kitchen. And then back to my couch. I’m actually still sitting here. Boy, was I exhausted! Somewhere in the depths of my freezer, I had this amazing portion of curried butternut squash [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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