2G22 - 1: Lunch

[Vibing_V]

What do you have for lunch? Do you eat lunch? What are your favourite/bestest lunch ideas? What are some new lunches you've tried and loved/hated?

I need new lunch ideas.

[RDM]

Dagwood sandwich with mushroom/tomato seitan slices.

[Vibing_V]

I love me some mushrooms!

[Lord Golbez]

Oh wow a new hot topic. I typically have a salad. Before that I typically had an almond butter sandwich or two. TodayI had an energy bar cause I can't be bothered, but I might have a salad later.

[Vibing_V]

Salads are incredibly varied. What are your salads made up of?

[Lord Golbez]

Lettuce or some kind of leafy green (sometimes baby kale or baby bok choy), cucumber, tomato. Then I sprinkled on some torn up nori strips for flavor and add some sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.

[WaWard]

I grew all the salad I ate this summer which is alot
I have pepper's coming up soon and more carrot's, and if I'm lucky another coliflower

THE GARDENING GENIOUS

[Fei Ayanami]

I had a halloumi sandwich for lunch, it was good although I was not the one who made it

I assume I could though

[Damien]

Now I work from home, most days I will have warm pitta and humus for lunch. Other regular lunches are veggie/vegan gyoza, sandwiches, sausage rolls, pasties, or soup (depending on the season and how hot it is).

I used to get a sandwich and eat it during my lunchtime walks back when I worked in an office but now I kinda have lunch-block too and always end up having the same thing from Gregg’s whenever I’m actually in the office.

Btw, where I live half the people call the middle of the day meal “lunch” and half call it “dinner” and it always winds up in a silly argument. Northern England have too many words for everything!

[Lord Golbez]

While dinner is what I would always call the last meal of the day, I think traditionally it may refer to the largest, so lunch could ve dinner if ts the biggest meal of the day (it usually isn't for most people though, I think). Supper would be the more unambiguous word for the last meal of the day, but I never use it.

[Damien]

Some northerners call the three meals breakfast, dinner, tea.

[Mitsurugi CP]

We grew tomatoes for the first time this year and even though we got a determinate variety, it put out more tomatoes than we could possibly eat without canning them (to date, I think we've harvested something like 20-25 lbs of roma tomatoes from 5 plants)

Fresh tomato sandwiches are much better than they have any business being. I've basically eaten one at least 5 times a week for the last month and a half since they started getting ripe. Toast sourdough bread on one side, spread a little bit of mayo on the bread, and salt your tomatoes, and it's absurdly good.

[Fei Ayanami]

In Quebec the words are déjeuner, dîner, souper, rather than the standard European petit déjeuner, déjeuner, dîner.

So Quebec and northern England would sort of agree.

[WaWard]

It makes more sense here because at lunchtime you don't really break your fast unless your a millenial doing intermittent fasting

[WaWard]

Just had a tomato sandwhich. It was delicios

#inspiredByMits

[Fei Ayanami]

It makes more sense here because at lunchtime you don't really break your fast unless your a millenial doing intermittent fasting

Agreed, though I’d have gone with déjeuner, leuntche, dîner.

[Lord Golbez]

It makes more sense here because at lunchtime you don't really break your fast unless your a millenial doing intermittent fasting

I'm not doing intermittent fasting, I just wake up late!

[Mitsurugi CP]

Just had a tomato sandwhich. It was delicios

#inspiredByMits

[Vibing_V]

Lettuce or some kind of leafy green (sometimes baby kale or baby bok choy), cucumber, tomato. Then I sprinkled on some torn up nori strips for flavor and add some sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.

I don't think I've ever had baby bok choy raw.

My usual salad would be spinach or mixed baby greens (hopefully including spinach) with a bunch of proteinful toppings like salmon, ham or hard boiled egg, cheese, some olives and/or avocado, and maybe some pistachios or sunflower seeds or something. A light bit of oil and vinegar/lemon juice.

I ought to do more saladas. >_>

I really enjoyed the "Jen" quinoa salad too. Feta, cucumber, mint, parsley.

I grew all the salad I ate this summer which is alot
I have pepper's coming up soon and more carrot's, and if I'm lucky another coliflower

THE GARDENING GENIOUS

Big produce doesn't want you to know this one trick~

I had a halloumi sandwich for lunch, it was good although I was not the one who made it

I assume I could though

Halloumi is delicious. I need to see if it is available for reasonable cost.

Now I work from home, most days I will have warm pitta and humus for lunch. Other regular lunches are veggie/vegan gyoza, sandwiches, sausage rolls, pasties, or soup (depending on the season and how hot it is).

I used to get a sandwich and eat it during my lunchtime walks back when I worked in an office but now I kinda have lunch-block too and always end up having the same thing from Gregg’s whenever I’m actually in the office.

Btw, where I live half the people call the middle of the day meal “lunch” and half call it “dinner” and it always winds up in a silly argument. Northern England have too many words for everything!

Gyoza

I used to do veggies/pita and hummus at some point (during the warm parts of the year). Now that we're into fall I'm hoping we do some homemade soup. I enjoy soup but since we don't have a microwave and I have to cook it on the stove (and thus wash a pan) I am less likely to have soup these days. But soup is a great hearty filler without being overly full of calories.

Also @ tea vs dinner. I remember going over there one summer and my aunt and all my cousins were calling it "tea" and my mom was annoyed/confused because they never called it "tea" growing up and she couldn't fathom how/why/when her sister started calling it that. And this is only South Manchester vs North Manchester. The vibe is totally different.

In Quebec the words are déjeuner, dîner, souper, rather than the standard European petit déjeuner, déjeuner, dîner.

So Quebec and northern England would sort of agree.

Ok, but this makes more sense. Having "déjeuner" and "petit déjeuner" seems superfluous, annoying, too many syllables, too much room for confusion. I fully support having separate names for the three meals. In the English example there are already 3 distinct names for the meals - and "tea" is used for having a cup of tea, or a snack with a cup of tea, or afternoon tea. It's a broad category that doesn't need to be broadened and muddied even further. :french

We grew tomatoes for the first time this year and even though we got a determinate variety, it put out more tomatoes than we could possibly eat without canning them (to date, I think we've harvested something like 20-25 lbs of roma tomatoes from 5 plants)

Fresh tomato sandwiches are much better than they have any business being. I've basically eaten one at least 5 times a week for the last month and a half since they started getting ripe. Toast sourdough bread on one side, spread a little bit of mayo on the bread, and salt your tomatoes, and it's absurdly good.

Congrats on the tomatoes and I really fucking mean it! There are some gardens around here with phat heavy tomatoes and they look so tantalizing. I can't remember who it is that taught me to salt tomatoes - it might have even been Frector - but wow, was it world changing. Salt all the tomatoes all the time! I don't think I've had just a tomato sandwich, but I often have cheese on toast with tomato on top. It elevates it nicely.

[Damien]

Yeah in greater Manchester they use all sorts of regional words for things. Dinner could mean any meal, depending on who you talk to. Just don’t ask a group of people what they call a small circular loaf of bread. You’ll end up with blood!

[Lord Golbez]

Are you talking about a roll?

I really enjoyed the "Jen" quinoa salad too. Feta, cucumber, mint, parsley.

This sounds kind of similar to tabbouleh. Have no idea what/who Jen is.

[Damien]

Are you talking about a roll?

Yeah. Don't use that word. Northerners will kick off. Seems every post code has their own name for it and people will fight you to the death, insisting theirs is the correct one.

[Mitsurugi CP]

What a weird, tiny hill to die on/be obnoxious to strangers over.

[Damien]

These are the names I can think of off the top of my head that people at my current workplace insist it’s called.
Roll, barm, bun, batch, cob, breadcake, muffin.
Generally, if you say “roll” somebody will either ask you what you mean (they know) or start ranting about what it’s REALLY called.

[Lord Golbez]

Muffin? WTF would you call a roll a muffin for when muffins are.completely different? Bun is acceptable. Never heard the other terms before.

[Mitsurugi CP]

BunBUNbunBUNbunBUUUUUN...bunbubububunbubuuuuun....

[Damien]

Yeah muffin is not acceptable. There are already two different baked goons called muffins.

In parts of Yorkshire, cupcakes are called buns.

[Mitsurugi CP]

Pudding in the UK is already extremely confusing.

[Damien]

That’s another regional thing.

[Mitsurugi CP]

Brits just can't get their carbohydrate nomenclature right.

Like how Americans argue about what counts as chili, barbeque, or pizza.