{What I Love} no 9: my favorite lunch

There are plenty of days when I skip lunch, or grab a handful of almonds and/or cashews and call it good. (I think that God was feeling particularly brilliant on the day he invented cashews!) But when I do take time to sit down and eat a proper sort of lunch, it is nearly always this:

It might be the world's perfect from-a-can soup. I sprinkle a little bit of cheese on the top and toss in some avocados if I have them. Sometimes I also crumble some tortilla chips on top. This has been my go-to lunch for more than a year now, and it's still a favorite. Since no one else but me enjoys eating soup, I've really stopped trying to force it down their throats—even though I do make some fairly awesome soups. (You should try my creamy potato! or my minestrone! or even my taco soup! Or, ooooh, one I just thought of, white chicken chili. They are good. No one else in my family believes me, but it is true.) I just can't eat them all by my lonesome.

So I resorted to canned soup, because, you know? I love soup. It's apparently one of the ways I am a freak of nature, but whatever. And this fajita chicken soup? So good, even if it does come from a can. The ingredients are all healthy, it's low in calories. And totally delicious!

What is YOUR favorite lunch?

Comments

[Margot/NZ]

I absolutely adore soup - could eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner (on the same day). For dinner tonight we're having Dahl Soup (a new-to-me recipe involving spicy lentils on a tomato base) - although it's summer here the temperature has dropped a few degrees as a cold front goes over, and that's enough of an excuse for me!

[wendy]

Mmmmm . . . soup.

My favorite standby lunch is a peanut butter sandwich. BUT, there are plenty of other foods I like MORE (a good deli sandwich, various soups, tobouli, chicken salad sandwich on croissants, pizza, to name a few). But I just absolutely adore Adam's All Natural peanut butter on what bread, and I love how easy it is.

And amen about cashews, sistah. :)

[Jamie]

I love that soup. There was a great deal on campbells soup a while ago at smiths and I bought a couple of cases of chicken fajita. I wouldn't let anyone else have it. IT was MINE.