How do we do lunch?

If we had eggs for breakfast we need to think about trying something different for lunch. If not, we could do omelettes which go well with almost anything...tomatoes, cheese and avacardo is delicious, mushrooms, red peppers, ham. Make it up as the fancy takes you. It is probably wise not to exceed two eggs per day, besides, eating eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner could get very tedious. 

I think we need to take a few lessons from the great masters of the salad for lunch...Subway (minus the fresh  bread)-Yes, I know the buns are very tempting! Actually Subway do very nice salads with any of their meat, fish protein add-ons. You do pay a bit more for them than if you simply get the salad roll version but the quantity is almost enough for two people or two meals.  I have often thought, "Why does Subway seem so delicious when the salads that I make at home can be so BORING." I think the answer has a couple of  answers. Firstly, any food which you don't have to prepare for yourself always tastes better and, secondly, Subway have such GREAT VARIETY on offer. 

The old proverb says, "If you can't beat them, join them!" I am not suggesting that we should all get a job at a Subway franchise but we can copy their formula for success. A colleague who regularly took salads to work for lunch used to prepare little containers of grated carrot and grated cheese, peppers  gherkin, cucumber and whatever else she fancied on Sunday night. These containers were kept in the fridge so they could be used to make up a quick salad to take to work each day. Tuna or salmon comes in convenient little tins and a few slices of ham  or other meat is not too expensive and is easy to add later.

The real challenge for some of us is getting used to eating salad. Lettuce does have a way of getting tedious. I am afraid it is really a matter of reducating our palettes. I used to loath cucumber which some people eat in great chunks but persistence has now enabled me to include them without prejudice. If you need to educate yourself eat the Subway lunch with the delicious buns until you think you can manage without it :-) If we stoop to punishing ourselves with our eating we are destined to fail.

Next blog: How goes the dieting?