Tuesday, November 30

Ok, so today's lunch has a little story behind it. Rob (E's dad) has been dying for Chinese take out for a long time. So last night -- his one day off from work -- we stop and get two dishes for Rob and E: veggie lo mein and veggie mu shu. He was especially craving the mu shu. By the time we got home, it was late and so I was frantically running around trying to finish E's bath, feed the five cats, and get my head around today's school lunch while Rob made a salad and heated up the homemade veggie soup that I made on Sunday. Finally, as I was dishing out some of the mu shu so that E could start eating, the Christmas tree fell over on top of me, bulbs flying, cats flying, E crying because he got scared and because he was worried about the ornaments, and Rob freaking out because the mu shu fell on floor. Everyone was fine and only one ornament was broken so all in all not too bad, but the mu shu had to be thrown out and it took awhile to pull it all back together again. Needlesstosay, I had no energy for thinking about today's lunch so I made it easy on myself and saved some of the lo mein, threw in a few baby tomatoes, and brown rice that I had made on Sunday night. Oh, and a homemade vegan cookie to make up for the lost ornament.

• veggie lo mein
• brown rice
• tomatoes
• vegan chocolate chip cookie
• water
• morning snack: water, apple