I love lunch.

I love lunch. I guess that makes me a "lady who lunches," (whatever that means. I think it's a reference from before my time?)**

And for those of you who know me, you know Wednesdays at the office are no fun for me. 

I'm stuck at the desk, reading content, editing pages, and scrambling to get last minute things together for a 3 p.m. deadline (which we rarely meet, btw.)

However, since deciding to go/becoming vegan, I have a new obsession with consuming as much info as possible from the millions of vegan food and lifestyle blogs on the web, which I manage to squeeze  between editing and all that other stuff, making Wednesdays a tad more enjoyable.

This fact also makes me much more hungry for an uber delicious vegan fix on Wednesdays, which is ironically the least lunch-friendly workday of the week.

I am usually stuck at a desk, unable to take an actual lunch break,  realizing the food I actually brought to eat sucks and totally pales in comparison to all the crazy delicious sounding recipes I've just read. Sometimes I get sad when the clock strikes lunch on Wednesdays. 

(A lot of times, I don't even bother eating lunch on Wednesdays, especially if we are super busy which is CRAY for me as a devout luncher.)

Anyways, I'm sharing my lunch story today because it was awesome. 

It was a mix of homemade, takeout and a quick, much-needed jaunt from the office, coming together in perfect harmony as a totally classic, simple, (vegan) American lunch:

Soup. Sandwich. Cookie.

So I actually brought the sandwich in for lunch yesterday, but never got around to eating it (because a more exciting lunch option came up... aka lunch buffet @ Gateway to India with my office mom, Kim)

and I was a little skeptical how a day old hummus- tomato-cucumber-radish-spinach sandwich would stand up against my mouthwatering, vegan-blog-reading appetite.  

So, I jumped at the chance to go with coworker Jill down the street to Infinite Soups to pick up a bowl of their tasty, made-daily-from-scratch soups (of which they always have at least four vegan options.)

I couldn't decide between the Jamaican Rice and Bean or the Caribbean Red Bean, so I went nuts and  ordered half and half. 

I do not regret that decision.

AND, on top of everything else,  the lovely, also fresh-and-scratch made vegan-friendly Corina Bakery just happens to be right across the street from Infinite Soups. That's where the double pack of peanut butter cookies (vegan and gluten free) come in*.

*Cue parting clouds and  heavenly music.

As I near the end of writing this post, and take another bite of peanutbuttercookie-y goodness, I am overwhelmed with joy and happiness at the simple, absolutely delicious local lunch that can now join the blogosphere of vegan food write-ups that I will inevitably continue reading once I get done eating and get back to work...










** before posting I decided to go ahead and Google "ladies who lunch"... here's the Wikipedia definition:

"Ladies who lunch is a phrase to describe slim, well-off, old-money, well-dressed women who meet for lunch socially, normally during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a restaurant, perhaps in a department store during shopping. Sometimes there is the pretext of raising money for charity."

Ok, so apparently I'm not one of these "ladies who lunch." Maybe it would be more appropriate to call me "a lady who loves lunch" or "a lunching lady"? The simple term "lunch lady" also briefly popped into my head, but that phrase doesn't really work for the purpose of this post, either. 


Anywhoo - thanks for reading!

Sincerly,


Your Lunch Loving Lady