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I’m going to Las Vegas tomorrow! No, not for gamblin’ or collectin’ hooker fliers (although I’ll definitely bring home a few, those are great), I’m going to PSW and it’s going to rule. Well, I hope so. Again I feel a little badly for neglecting le blog here, but school is time consuming. I also had a horrible infection in my gastro-intestinal system. I won’t elaborate, as this blog is supposedly about tasty things. I didn’t cook much besides vegetable broth in those days, anyway. Imagine my excitement two days into the treatment when I was able to eat a banana! Awesome.

My packed lunches have been a bore like me. Salad greens from a bag with carrot sticks and ranch dressing, all courtesy of Trader Joe’s. Once I threw a little tofu in there – it didn’t taste very good. Hopefully I will encounter more exciting foods in Las Vegas this weekend. If I do, you will be one of many to hear about it.

Yeah, so, school started last week and I was feeling just a little too busy to update the ol’ blog. But it’s never too late, right? Right.

Truth be told, I abandoned my soup challenge a bit. I have had a bowl of soup every day (although someone told me instant ramen doesn’t count, so if they’re right I am lying to you) but the whole documentary part sort of fell by the wayside. Tragic, I know. Will you ever get enough pictures of bowls of soup? I don’t know, I just don’t know. Woe is you.

Bright side! My schedule this semester includes three days that commence at 9 AM and continue to at least 3:45 PM, and I happen to harbor a certain love for bringing a packed lunch. The restaurants around school (including its own totally weird café) can be a little pricey and none of them are very tasty. So I’ve decided to make a big effort to bring my lunch every day because it will save me money and give me practice being a mom. Speaking of, my mom packed my lunch every day in grade school and I had the coolest pink lunchbox. It was shaped like a briefcase and had its own little pink drink cooler that, now that I think about it, was shaped like a coffin. A coffin for beverages.

So, for this week (shortened thanks to Labor Day) I made pasta. I cooked 1 3/4 cup (dry) of whole wheat penne pasta, sauteed 1/4 of a yellow onion, heated up some Bolognese sauce from Trader Joe’s, and tossed it all together. This made two servings of pasta which I separated into plastic, microwaveable containers. I wanted to label them “Tuesday” and “Wednesday” but thought the other art school kids might make fun of me. I haven’t really put much effort into rounding out my packed lunches, though. A piece of fruit? Little Debbie cakes? Carrot sticks? What do you think? I’d love to hear stories about how your mom or dad or legal guardian packed your lunch, and what were the best and worst surprises.