Too Much Fast Food

I've been eating way too much fast food lately. My kind of fast food is mostly snacky kinds of foods that simply require slicing, popping in my mouth, or scooping out of a container. Cheeses, nuts and dried fruits, cottage cheese, hummus, peanut butter, etc. And if you stretch the definition....fruits! Everything from grapes, watermelon (s), and the last of the seasons stone fruits, like nectarines. Even exotic fruits like jackfruit and mammey....but as summer ends, fall begins, and new fruits start to make their yearly apperance, like the Honeycrisp apples!



Here's an example of what I mean by fast foods......this is the lunch I packed for Mark, and myself, before we headed off to the SF HKC a couple of weekends ago. "Tracy's All Day Lunch", manchego, and string cheese, crackers, salami, eggs, hummus, Indidan lamb and lentil stew with greens, carrot & celery sticks, fuji apple, walnuts, prunes and my favorite candy these days....dried cherry tomatoes! I found these little nuggets of sweet tangy goodness at the Vietnemese Market.
Usually I would pack a salad, but no salad was prepped (can you believe it? yikes), and so all there was to pack that morning was snacky, snacky, snacky, snacks! Minus the lamb and lentil stew...that was the only thing that day that did not get eaten...no spoon. again, can you believe it? I never, whoops, I mean, rarely if ever, do not have a real spoon and fork with me at all times (I thoroughly dislike plastic...can't eat a salad with a plastic fork, yuck!) My point is that this is how I snack most days and this is why I've been too lazy to prep salads! It's too easy to just slice, pop, or scoop!


I know we are all busy, like myself, and thank goodness for my pressure cooker, I always have big batches of soups, chilis, stew, beans, grains big slabs of proteins, like pork shoulder or whole chickens. But I admit to the letting the salads slide.....



Recently I've been reassessing my time, and my "time wasters"...that's the important bit, the time wasters! I have plenty of time, I just haven't been spending it on the important things. Why do I feel like I need to ruch off to a 5:30am yoga class, when I can go to a 7:15am yoga class ane get all of my food prep done before I even leave the house? Why do I feel as if I need to go shopping, for more stuff I don't need, when I can go home and heat up a nice bowl of stew, instead of grabbing an expresso, with whip cream, to stave off hunger until I get home....already starving and too hungry to wait 2 minutes for the microwave, so instead, I start, yep, slicing, popping and scooping! Fast food is a bitch!



I finished off my last package of dried cherry tomatoes.....and I ran out of peanut butter a couple of days ago....somehow I think I can survive without more fast food.



PS at the risk of sounding like a snob, I never eat bars of any sort. Energy bars, protein bars, granola bars, call them what you want to. I call them candy, and when I want candy, I'll eat candy.