Chik'n Salad Pita

Today I've got a really simple, and really delicious lunch. It taught me a thing or two about packing lunch in the Laptop Lunches lunchbox too. Homemade Chik'n Salad on a pita is so tasty, but at first I wasn't sure how to best pack and transport it. On my first try, I put the Chik'n Salad into the pita and then tried placing it directly into the lunchbox. That really didn't work that well. The stuffing started falling out all over the place, plus it really just didn't look that good, and that's important when you are a crazy person who takes a picture of your lunch every day for a website. Hehehe. I just didn't think that it would transport that well like that.

So, after a little experimenting, I ended up just laying a pita in the lunchbox by itself and then spooning a bunch of the Chik'n Salad into one of the containers. I thought about putting two pitas in there, and you could most certainly do that, but with Summer time coming up and vacations on the horizon, I probably should be cutting back on calories wherever I can, and eating only one pita instead of two will save me a few. There's more than enough Chik'n Salad there to fill one pita. And whatever is left over will be delicious eaten on its own because it's almost really like a fruit salad, with just a little mock chicken thrown in.

The Chik'n Salad is made from a few Morningstar Farms Meal Starters Chik'n Strips, onion, celery, chopped apples, grapes and walnuts. It's all mixed together with a little Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise. YUM! I would normally eat this on some bread, maybe with lettuce and tomato, but I used a pita this time just to be a little different. It's more interesting than seeing a bun in the lunchbox every day.

I threw in some raw carrots. I always have carrots in the fridge and they really come in handy for packing your lunch, especially when you've got that one last container that you can't figure out what to fill with. Carrots to the rescue again. For dessert, I packed a Lemon Bar Larabar. I think this is a fairly new flavor, because I haven't seen it before. I have, therefore, never tasted it before, so I am looking quite forward to peeling this baby open after lunch today. In case you've never heard me blabber on before, I just think that Larabars are the greatest thing for keeping yummy raw vegan food handy for whenever you need a snack. And they make great desserts for lunch too.

Well, that does it for Tuesday. Today's lunch is kinda' fun just because it's packed a little differently than what I normally do. That's one of the cool things about the Laptop Lunches lunchbox. You can move containers around, and even leave them out, making up all sorts of different configurations that really help to make your lunch just a little bit more interesting. I can honestly say that since becoming vegan, and since I started packing my own lunch (because you almost have to if you want to eat something vegan for lunch every day besides a wilted salad in a restaurant) my lunches are much more fun and interesting than they ever were as an omnivore eating the same old unhealthy fast food day after day, week after week. And they're not only healthier, they're cheaper too.

Thanks for checking in. Have a great Tuesday and I'll see everybody tomorrow!