A Day in the Life of… warts and all. I’ll go into meticulous detail assuming you have the same knowledge of food and cooking as I did 2-20 years ago. Here is Part I of A Day in the Life of…

Lunch

I don’t carry a lunch pail or fancy velcro lunch sack. I either lose them at work or they live in my car. I usually carry my lunch in a plastic grocery bag.

MEAT

The night before I cook on the grill one of the following options and this is what I take to work in a plastic container:

-2 chicken thighs

-2 pork loins or some other cut

-3 hamburgers (no cheese, no bun)

-Steak

I put this meat into a plastic bowl with a lid. The key here is to cook what you’re going to take for lunch the previous evening. If I don’t do that, I usually buy my lunch, which costs 3 to 4 times more to get the exact same thing I could have cooked at home.

SALAD

On average, 3 out of 5 work days, the previous evening, I’ll chop up a salad and place it in the refrigerator. All or some of this is what I put in my circular bowl with the blue lid:

-Mixed greens

Either the Natural Select brand in a plastic box, or I buy some good lettuce and peel off some as I go along in the week. I almost always go with this.

-Spinach (usually in the Natural Select plastic box)

1 out of 5 salads I’ll use Spinach.

-Red or Green Pepper

I cut half of a pepper and put the other half in a sandwich bag for the next day. I almost always go with this.

-Broccoli

I buy a big head of broccoli and tear off 2-3 pieces, chop of a bit of the stalk, and then chop up the broccoli for the salad. I almost always go with this.

-Cucumber

I usually cut off about ¼ to 1/3 of the cucumber, cut them in thin circles, and then cut them into 1/8ths that resemble little triangles, or Spanish gold coin bits for the Austrians amongst my modest readership. I almost always go with this.

-Celery

In every salad bowl I prepare for lunch, I’ll tear off 2 big pieces of celery. I chop off the ends just a bit, I don’t like how the whiter part tastes at the bottom of the celery. Then I’ll tear these 2 piece in half and put them into the salad bowl. I usually eat them at the end of the salad.

-Bacon

I hardly ever eat bacon in my salad for lunch, but maybe 2 out of 5 times for dinner I’ll cook up about 4-5 strips of bacon to crumble in my salad.

-Raisins

A sprinkle a handful of raisins into my salad more often than not.

-Carrots

I put about 4-5 unchopped baby carrots in my salad about 1 out of 5 times.

Strawberries

I cut up about 2-3 strawberries in my salad about 1 out of every 10 times.

-Onions

Probably 1 out of 10 salads I’ll chop up about 1/3 of a raw onion to put into the salad. Most of the time I fry up onion in butter to serve on top of whatever meat I’m eating.

-Avocado

Probably about 1 out 10 of my salads I’ll put avocado. You have to wait until it’s brown/black and a bit squishy. I usually cut in 1/4ths, scoop out the green meat out of the skin with a spoon, and then cut those pieces into chunks.

-Tomatoes

I usually don’t buy tomatoes. If they’re on my salad at a restaurant, I’ll eat them. I don’t dislike them, but in my readings of nightshades, I somehow just grew accustomed to not purchasing them.

-Cheese

I don’t ever put cheese on my salad anymore at home. Only at restaurants when it comes with the salad will I have cheese.

-Salad dressing

Vinaigrette, that’s all I ever put on my salad.  But probably only do so one every 5 times. I don’t buy any store bought salad dressings anymore. They have too many PUFAs, especially soy. There are two things I go way out of my way to avoid. High Fructose Corn Syrup and anything with Soy. It’s usually pretty easy when you avoid all packaged foods.

The key here is to prepare the salad the night before. If I don’t do that, I usually am only carrying a slab of meat of some sort and a piece of fruit for lunch.

FRUIT

Along with a portion of meat, I’ll pack into my plastic sack on most days an apple or an orange. I usually eat that around 2pm or so.

All in all a rather bland lunch I know, but it gets me through the day along with another cup of coffee and a few glasses of water. I feel light with an “agile fullness”, and am hungry by dinner time without feeling groggy like I used to before paleo.

Next “A Day in the Life of…” post will be about dinner.  

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