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Last of the Lousy Lunches - Kitchen Kat
Today marked at an all time low on the lunch front. Having boiled a vegetarian hot dog, I then remembered that I had no bread or buns. Lacking such entree alternatives as homemade soup, mixed greens, fresh fruit or cereal, I had no choice but to eat this hot dog, with ketchup, on top of a cracker. (Yes, yes. I could have eaten just the hot dog but at the time this sounded even less appealing.) The crunchiness of the rosemary-laced cracker coupled with the squishiness of the ketchup-coated hot dog is not a pairing that I want to experience again. Not a full-fledged “Yuck!” but certainly far, far from “Yum!” Working from home, I often find myself thinking about food. Yet, when lunch rolls around and I can eat guilt-free, food seems to be the very last thing that I have in the pantry. On days when I don’t have time to run out to a diner, much less to the supermarket, and the delivery options leave me unenthused, I need alternatives to my usual handful …
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