Brown-Bagging It.
The funds are low this week. Translation: I'm brown bagging it all week long. This is a good thing because daily breakfast & lunch can average $12 easily from the in-bulding cafeteria at work which has never heard of Adobo or any other seasoning. $60 weekly, $240 monthly or $2880 annually. Whoa! Kinda makes Peanut Butter & Jelly seem like a viable & tasty alternative.
But fear not!
Brown bagging (or in this case a plastic target bag) does not have to be a soggy sandwich and dixie cup of water cooler piss...NO! Why not "take it up a notch"? Just a tad short of setting up my Foreman grill at my desk, I decided on Tacos. The bulk of the work was done the night before, that is the meat cooking and then stored into small left over plastic containers. Cheese, meat, gauacamole, taco sauce & shells along with a Rockstar Energy drink all assembled at my desk. It can get messy, so I put it all together over someones excel print-outs I took off the printer while returning from the microwave. Even with a desk full of small containers and and a napkin tucked into protect my shirt, some random co-woker stops by my desk to say "sorry for interrupting your lunch but...". I pretty much kept eating and pretending I could not speak while grunting at them letting food fall from my face onto what I think was their print-outs. That image is usually enough to send the message, "not while I'm eating...k? thx! bye."
In conclusion, I may have to do Tacos more often. The Taco Kit was only $2.69 at Target and a pound of ground turkey was about $2.99. Only thing I added was an diced onion and some additional Adobo. All together I had dinner & lunch for under $6.00. Plus I collected 3 "Box Top$ Education" labels worth .10¢ each for my sons school.
Tags: Brown-Bagging, broke = creative, Leave me alone and call the help desk.
