Wednesday, May 9, 2012

a day in lab

by Sarah Zinkel on May 9, 2012

lately i’ve been lucky enough to work from home a couple days a week. i’m not gathering data anymore and i don’t have many classes left (just a few seminars per week), so it doesn’t pay to commute for one and a half hours to sit at my desk in lab, when i could do the same thing from home!

but i just realized that that means i have only been showing you food and meals from the days when i work at home and i’ve gotten pretty lazy about taking photos of what i pack to eat in lab.

so today i’ll go back to the old normal and show you what i ate on a day that i went into lab this week!

breakfast included the usual suspects.

breakfast - water coffee granola chobani

coffee + water.

work breakfast - yogurt and granola

and chobani yogurt with some love grown foods granola mixed in and vitamins on the side.

a couple hours later i had my morning snack.

work snacks - apple sauce and babybel cheese

apple sauce squeeze pack and a babybel. individual packaged things are perfect for snacking!

i was pretty lazy when it came to lunch to…

work lunch - trader joe's indian fare

a prepackaged trader joe’s indian food meal. i really like the punjab eggplant though! i don’t think i’ve tried one of these indian fare meals that i haven’t liked.

i was snacky like woah after lunch, so i grabbed a bar to eat on my way home.

raw revolution bar

i completely forgot about this raw revolution bar in my snack drawer.

raw revolution bar - hazelnut and chocolate

i still like the spirulina one the best, but this on was pretty good!

i guess it gave me plenty of energy because i came home and worked on my porch garden, took the dogs for a walk, and made a pretty delicious dinner!

huge veggie salad

for this, i made some orzo pasta for the base (trying to use up pantry items!).

delicious vegetable salad

then i just sautéed some green bell peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, asparagus, and cherry tomatoes in a bit of butter and added that on top of the pasta.

huge vegetable salad

and i finally topped it all off with some herbed feta!

clearly this meal won the “best food of the day” award! i didn’t realize how much i relied on packaged meals that day. i guess that’s what happens when we don’t have leftovers and i’m feeling lazy about packing food!

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thanks as always to jenn for hosting this what i ate wednesday link party every week.

it makes it much easier to get my fix of foodie porn! :)

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today is another work at home day! i have to bring my jeep in to the dealer though. there was a part recalled that i need to get looked at. bummer.

other than that, my day is wide open for productivity!

i love that. days when i have all kinds of meetings or seminars breaking up my work time always leave me feeling like i had no time to accomplish anything. i do better with long stretches to work on projects.

hope you have a lovely day!

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