All posts by Nichole

My heart hurts

I’m struggling with how to write this today, so I’ll just spit it out: My dad’s youngest brother has a brain tumor.

I’m angry. It’s too soon for me to be able to process it without being angry.

Uncle Brian is having his bone marrow tested today. My dad, my grandma, my aunt and another of my uncles are there at the hospital with him. These people have spent so much time in hospital waiting rooms this year.

In the best-case scenario, today’s test will tell us that the growth isn’t cancerous. Please pray for the best-case scenario.

The trouble with lunch

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Back when I was a worker bee, I ate a lot of frozen-food lunches. I stopped doing that when I started staying home, because a sandwich costs less and I could make them fresh.

That worked fine for quite awhile. But then I started getting a headache toward the end of the day and realizing that, hey! I forgot to eat lunch again. So I started buying the frozens again a few weeks ago. For some reason, it’s easier for me to remember to eat when I have to microwave something. Probably because it’s hard to maintain one’s enthusiasm about PB&J after the 312th consecutive day of them.

Naturally, though, I have a problem with frozen lunches, too. The meat in a frozen meal? I can’t handle it. It makes me a little queasy just to think about it, much less eat it. So I limit myself to the vegetarian options most of the time.

And there aren’t scads of them to choose from. But here are a few of my favorites:

  • Amy’s has a great array of vegetarian options, such as mattar paneer and cheese enchiladas. The brand is one of the more expensive ones, though. Fortunately, our local organic discount emporium has them pretty regularly.
  • Ethnic Gourmet’s Gujarati Vegetable Curry
  • Lean Cuisine’s butternut squash ravioli is delightful.

    This was a very rambley way of saying that frozen lunches work for me. What’s your go-to lunch?

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