"Yammer yammer yammer. Blah, blah, blay. Yack yack yack."

Guess who's back in school?

Guess who is loving it?

Part of this school project is being super proactive and trying to take better care of myself. One, I'm actually eating breakfast before I leave the house. Two, I'm actually packing a lunch. I'm now on a schedule where I'm eating twice, yes twice, by the time I would normally have just gotten around to eating. My fellow class mates are increasingly interested in what's in my lunch. Today, a number of them asked me for the 'recipe.' Huh? *laugh* It's funny, because of course there are certain ingredients in certain quantities but there isn't really a recipe so much. However, I am going to post it up for them anyway. The one thing I did which I think sort of made the meal was adding a couple of spoonfuls of ''veggie butter." So, here is what I did to create the veggie butter:

I took a small can of tomato paste and mixed it with about the same amount of softened butter. I also added a tablespoon or two of pesto, a glug of tamari, and a couple of tablespoons of nutritional yeast. I also added some rainbow pepper. Anyone making this would want to experiment with amounts, working out their own preferences.

So today, my lunch was: about a 1/2 cup brown rice, 1/2 cup chick peas, 2 spoons of veggie butter, a sliced carrot, red pepper, green onion, 1/4 cup purple cabbage. I topped the veggies with about an ounce of goat feta. I also added a teaspoon of some of the hot peppers I canned this summer--you won't have those but you could use anything you like to add a little spice. I think I also added another tablespoon or two of nutritional yeast but I can quite remember.

By the way, that up there is a picture of the peppers in process.