day in, day out

I spend an inordinate amount of time on meal-planning. – why? – well because I love food and probably also following a mainly vegan diet. Vegetarianism is something I’ve been doing for 10 years now, and veganism is something I’ve finally resigned myself to because eggs don’t sit well in my stomach and I’m lactose-intolerant. Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t eat a slice of veggie pizza when that’s all there is.

Back to meal-planning: I do not think most folks do enough of it. It’s almost as if breakfast, lunch time, snacking, and dining is all a great surprise – “Oh, it’s lunch time…what should I go buy?” Those are words I almost never utter to myself because I’m always packing (a lunch that is). Mainly due to the fact that I cannot in any way afford to eat out everday, and finding decent food that incidentally  happens to be vegetarian is difficult.

And to me eating is an absolute joy, not time to “re-fuel” or “fill-up” as most commercials on TV make food out to be. Food is food, and not just fuel. Most of what I see pass off as food is so highly processed that it seems other-worldly. I mean, how can cookies sit on a shelf for a year and not go bad? Also most people say they don’t have time to make good food. Now I work pretty much full-time and go to school full-time, besides the fact that homework is omnipresent and I would also like some free, personal time, and yet I still manage to make myself 3-4 homemade meals a day! Don’t be lazy! Food is important. Just look at how many diseases can be curtailed or all together avoided by following a basic, nutritious diet. It’s not rocket science. Chican@s, eating lentejas is as “Mexican” as eating tacos de carne asada!

Rant end.

And I am grateful for his little chalkboard, a gift from a friend, which has been so useful! And it’s also rather aesthetically pleasing.

Life, so precarious yet joyous!