Frozen lunches

I don't really eat lunch. I hate sandwiches except for over-the-top ones like chicken salad with bacon and pesto or turkey clubs with avocado. I despise dropping $7 or $10 for a crappy lunch that won't be satisfying, and I'll be hungry again in like an hour. I am willing to drop $15 or $20 on good lunch like sushi or noodles, but I won't do it every day. It's just not cost-effective. So I actually skip lunch a lot of days. I have a big bag of craisins that I bought at Costco and I just eat a handful of those. I know, it's not very healthy. My mother is going to read this and lecture me.

In any case, I have recently talked to some folks about lunches. One co-worker heats up frozen meals. Those are often high in sodium and whatnot so I avoid them. Another lady I just spoke to today talked about fresh meals made by Project Open Hand as their for-profit dealio. They will provide you with three meals a day for something like $15. Pretty nice.

So this is what I was thinking. I should do my own line of frozen lunches. Just for me. And J, of course, if he wants them. Why not? If I cook one "meal," I freeze individual portions of it. Then I can peek at other frozen dinners and estimate my reheat time. Eventually, I can have lasagne, other pastas, Chinese, etc. WOOT! Okay, maybe not Chinese. You're right: the reheat issue would be weird. Maybe undercook a little. I could learn something from that episode of Top Chef about creating frozen dinners. Freeze in pieces.