What’s for lunch
My lunch is not usually something to blog about. Over the weekend, I grab an assortment of Lean Cuisines at the grocery store and maybe some Michaelina’s Sante Fe Rice and Beans. Some of the South Beach Diet stuff is OK or better - actual veggie portions are involved. If I run out of these, sometimes I pop across the street for a Gordita at Taco Bell. I have that down pat:
Lunch bell rings. Photocopy stuff for afternoon classes. Leave papers in office mailbox downstairs. Zip to Taco Bell and order Gordita. Pay. Use restroom while Gordita is being prepared. Grab Gordita from counter, zip back across street, swing by office to pick up copies and head upstair to classroom. Eat fast, wipe mouth, toss bag, and greet students at door. Elapsed time: 25 minutes.
But today I have a recommendation in the zappable food department: Stouffer’s Corner Bistro Panini (including Lean Cuisine versions). Taking the time to read the cooking directions pays off: you get a tasty sandwich with crunchy toasted bread right out of your microwave. Really. I know - how can you trust the recommendation of a woman who bolts Lean Quisine and Taco Bell Gorditas for lunch? But I can find corroborators, food writer Gwen Shoen at the Sacramento Bee among them.
Squirrely Jedi wrote:
At least you don’t have to cook it in the dishwasher ;->.
Posted on 27-Mar-06 at 2:05 pm | Permalink
DrGuy wrote:
Because my two teenaged sons & I live together without adult supervision, I have become, in all modesty, quite the connoisseur of the nuke ‘em variety of frozen foods. Since we stumbled onto the Stouffer’s Panini sandwiches a few weeks ago our consumption of these delectable treats has been limited only by their availability (they disappear from the grocer’s freezer within hours of delivery here in the hinterlands outside of Chicago). I’m especially fond of the Lean Cuisine Southwest Chicken, which, fortuitously, offers the lowest calorie count of the bunch. I also suggest adding both ground pepper and red pepper flakes, and my younger progeny likes a hefty sprinkling of bacon bits on his.
Of course, the trustworthiness of a co-endorsement from someone who is an enabler for his kid poaching salmon in the dishwasher must, I acknowledge, be suspect, but there you go.
Posted on 28-Mar-06 at 11:41 am | Permalink
Phil Roberson wrote:
An underlying premise seeems to be that your “school lunch” options are limited….
Posted on 28-Mar-06 at 7:13 pm | Permalink