Monbento Square #51

 

This was not really my plan, but I answered my struggle and made myself a nice meal on what turned out to be one of the worst days, emotionally, I've probably had in a decade, and I can't presently say much about that, except that having this lunch was helpful. 

There is a salad here of spring mix, blood oranges, clementine segments, cucumbers, and pecans with a homemade creamy poppy seed dressing, which was really delcious.

And there are salt and vinegar chips, which I did not make myself, obviously (is that obvious? Maybe not?), but which also, were delicious. I'm not that much of a chip person but sometimes some thick-cut kettle chips really hit the spot.

And there is a soy curl "chicken" salad sandwich, made from this recipe from T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. I would probably soak the soy curls in broth next time and leave out the grapes, but otherwise, this was amazing. It introduced me to a new technique for using soy curls that I will be trying again, by chopping up the rehydrated soy curls in a food processor. It was a major game changer in terms of texture and I loved it. I put the soy curl salad on multigrain toast.

Finally, I have some Dandies mini marshmallows and some chunks of chocolate, which I had at the end as a "dessert." I rarely pack a dessert these days but needed one on this day.

I survived to tell the tale, and hope I can keep going a little while longer. See you again soon.