Groceries!

pepperjack cheese, summer sausage, asiago peppercorn bread, pretzels, broccoli, carrots, sugarsnap pees, hummus, spinach, cottage cheese

Green machine!

pesto ravioli, broccoli, tomato and roasted red pepper soup,

Lots of oranges and reds.

tomato and roasted red pepper soup, brat, apple, banana bread, cheese crackers, chocolate-covered cheerios, yogurt-covered pretzels

Meaty Tom-lunch

pizza, steak, mashed potatoes, peas

Will you just look at that?

chicken noodle soup, banana, peanut butter, spinach, turkey, cheese, sourdough, nuts, chocolate

Meat fest!

tomato and roasted red pepper soup, broccoli, cheese, brat

Happy lunch.

fake sausage, tomato and roasted red pepper soup, cheddar crackers, edamame, corn, spinach, clementine, sourdough

Toddler food is good for adults too.

apple, peanut butter, honey, toast, pretzels, carrots, cottage cheese

Mmmmmhmmmmm.

asparagus risotto, edamame, corn, broccoli, apple, pepperjack cheese, summer sausage

Yep yep yep!

grapes, carrots, celery, cottage cheese, pistachios, milk

Yammers!

broccoli, edamame, cauliflower, carrots, fake sausage, pepperjack cheese, sourdough bread

Indian yumcicles

Amy's Indian Palak Paneer, cooked veggies, clementine, wheat thins

Chunch Chronicles: Take 1

I really should have been documenting the last 4 years of this...but every Wednesday a lot of people from my work cross the road to eat lunch with community members at a local church. It's called "church lunch" (or "chunch" if you'd like to save time) and it's completely nonreligious, minus the fact that it's a fundraiser for the church in which we eat. The food they serve there is creative, never-ending, yum-city, and cheap as it's only a $6 donation. Here was this week's spread -- vegetable beef soup unpictured as it was offensively oniony.

Potato Soup, Salad with French Dressing and Grains, Crusty Sourdough Bread, chocolate cake

This is happening.

Mashed potatoes, cooked veggies with cheese, apple, chunky peanut butter, wheat thins.

Yep!

Grapes, mashed tots, summer sausage, pepper jack cheese, cheddar cheese, apple, pumpkin bread

Conrad for the win

Conrad Wilson puts us all to shame with his inspiring culinary vision.

Curry beer chicken with organic kale and carrots

Steph's Delight

This adorable lunch comes to you today from Steph Wilkes, who never fails to eat just the cutest things!

homemade chicken salad, pretzel chips to eat it with, apple, grapes, blackberries

10 pounds of tots!

I swear this looked/tasted better in real life than it looks in this picture. Also my skin is STILL dirty from cleaning, peeling, and cutting 10 pounds of tots!

Mashed potatoes

No bread about it.

Not like this is a super healthy meal, but I'm experimenting with bread-less lunches. Just for kicks and giggles.

Grapes, mashed potatoes, summer sausage, pepper jack cheese, cheddar cheese

State fair turkey sandwiches, people! In my skyway!

That's right. The unthinkable has happened. My favorite item at the Minnesota State Fair is now sold IN MY SKYWAY AT WORK. So pretty much it's my birthday every day is what I have concluded.

@turkeytogo is so amazing.

Nina shares her lunch glory

Thanks to the supremely inventive Nina Graham for submitting her lunch photo this week! Here's what she has to say about this delicious feast:

This is the fanciest lunch I've ever deigned to munch. To our right we have a pear stuffed with cranberries, walnuts and bleu cheese and poached in sherry, apple cider and brown sugar on a bed of arugula, which has been tossed with lemon juice and olive oil. To our left we have an acorn squash stuffed with quinoia, sunflower seeds, currants, mushrooms and onions. On the other side of the camera we have a very happy and fulfilled belly. 

Half respectable, half guilty pleasure.

Mac and cheese, beef and cheddar hot dogs, honeycrisp apple, chunky peanut butter, broccoli, carrots, hummus, milk, apple cider

Super on-the-ball this week.

Last night I had a blast of efficiency and readied Monday and Tuesday's lunches AND snacks, y'all.
Unpictured: my morning bananas.

lunch: lemon pasta with parm, corn, carrots, tots, brocc, grapes, hummy.
snacker: mashed potatoes, summer sausage, mild cheddar cheese.

Fridays are Yumdays.

Lemon pasta with parm and brocc, pistachios, milk!

My snack is better than yours.

So my lunch was average today, but holy man was my snack good.

And in case you are concerned about the amount of cheese I eat. Fear not. I'm from Wisconsin, so I can handle it, and furthermore I got my cholesterol checked at our health fair this week and I'm in tip top shape.

BOOM!

Naner, cheddar, cukes.

Leftover insanity.

Today's lunch comes from Alyson Wise, a very wise lunch eater indeed. Well DONE Alyson, my child.

Homemade chili with steak, duck risotto, carrot salad, sweet potato cupcake with maple butter-cream frosting

A series of oranges.

milk, grilled cheese, sourdough, spinach, tomato soup, carrots, hummus

Rainy day meal

edimame, apples, pasta, chick peas, corn, lemon, olive oil, salt and pep

speculoos with my apples!

This just happened.

Thanks to my roommie being in wedding-land this weekend and thus bequeathing some bacon unto me, I was able to make this happen today. Food is good people. Food. Is. Good.

wheat bread, bacon, pepper jack cheese, hummus, edimame, pistachios

She made me eat tomatoes.

My buddy Anna Pop made this incredible cornbread tomato cobbler and shared some with me. I can honestly say that's one of the first times I have ever enjoyed a tomato. Well done Pop!

bowtie pasta, asparagus, corn, grapes, tomato, cornbread

Soup-er good Friday

I stayed home to work today but Tom really lived it up over lunch at Eddington's. GOOD JOB TOM!

chicken pot pie soup, veggie beef soup, chicken tortilla soup, breadsticks, strawberry salad

Narm narm narsh!

bowtie pasta with corn, cauliflower, broccoli, olive oil, lemon juice, mixed greens with cottage cheese, raspberries, grapes, milk

Hot damn hotdogs!

Well done, Tom Reed. Well done!

Nate dogs with mustard, bacon jam, and half-eaten apple fritter

Fall is here

Nothing says fall like your first cup of apple cider. *dreamy sigh

mixed greens with broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, mozzarella, dressing, wheat bun with summer sausage, pepper jack cheese, spinach, hummus, milk, apple cider, cookie with homemade nutella from the roommie

Ratatat!

My lady coworker Julia Schrenkler has shared her awe-inspiring lunch with us today. Since she just moved close to work, she goes home and dines with her doggy over lunch most days. Her food is currently making my mouth water, and her situation is making me miss my kitty! Well done, Julia. Well done.

egg in a nest of ratatouille, st. paul farmers market

Lumbalumba!

Rib-eye steak, fresh greens, cold pasta salad with mushrooms, orange peppers, corn, basil, and bacon.

squaaa!

sandwiches with pepper jack, summer sausage and hummus, baby greens with cauliflower, shredded carrot, feta cheese and rosemary balsamic vinaigrette, grapes, cup of milk

Fuji-yum

green tea ice cream with strawberries, pineapple, and eatable flower from Fujiya

Incredi-yum!

My lady buddy Andrea Klaasen created this amazing lunch dish from an unlikely source. Here's her delicious description:

This was originally a lunch that was just going to be a Lean
Cuisine-only affair, which is both underwhelming and sad...but
convenient and easy. However, with little extra effort, it's a lunch
you can eat and retain a little dignity while doing so! First I plated
it (a key move) then  added some mixed greens with olive oil and a
side of asiago peppercorn bread and a dash of Italian seasoning. 

Much improved.

lean cuisine, mixed greens, olive oil, asiago peppercorn bread, italian seasoning

Freshamunga!

Edamame, cherries, veggie sausage

Greenalicious!

Midday snack from the Hideout in Austin, TX! Improv AND muffins. Yummers.

Iced chai and pistachio muffin!

Yarmy yarmy!

Guero's Taco Bar, from Austin, TX!

Twaa!

Goooosh!

Blasto!

Yarm yarm!

Toaster roaster!

More yums from the Hideout. YESSS.

three-cheese panini with spinach, tomato, mozzarella, cheddar and provolone.

spinach and cheese croissant

Gagaga

Delicious lunch vittles from Annie's in Austin, TX. Truly a tex mex lover's dream.

light taco dinner with shredded chicken taco, guacamole salad, queso

enchiladas de tom!