28 Days of Lunch: Day One (9th October)

[catalyst2]

28 days ago I decided to photograph my lunch every day. Being the obsessive that I am, there were some rules (of course).


1. It had to be 28 days consecutively - if I missed even one day, I had to start again. I didn't miss any days - see there are advantages to being obsessive! - so got it done in just 28 days.
2. I had to photograph everything that I had for lunch - drink, dessert etc - with one exception. Unless otherwise pictured, I always have a 750 ml bottle of cold water to drink with lunch.

Things to note:
A) I am obsessed with rice, bananas and Pepsi Max - fortunately not together in the same bowl - but I eat these regularly, some may say with monotonous regularity.
B) Lunch is my main meal for the day. Years of working night shifts has left me unable to eat large meals at night. I usually reheat whatever the family had for dinner the previous night.
C) Breakfast is usually two vegemite sandwiches and a piece of fruit.
D) I usually eat a piece of fruit (almost always an apple or a pear ) on the way from work at night.
E) Dinner is something light - most often a chicken or cheese salad sandwich.

That all said, here's the first lunch.



It's chilli con carne on rice. We lost our original recipe so this was the first try for the new one. When I cooked it the night before, it was very bland but I added 200ml of tomato paste and 50 ml of hot chilli sauce to the pot. It's quite a nice flavour now and moderately hot.

Comments

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

We're leaving imminently, how do we get in touch with you in Mandurah? And is there any con carne left?

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

There is a bit of can carne left - frozen in meal lots of course!
E-mail me at catalyst2 (at) westnet.com.au

[harmalicious.livejournal.com]

I love you and your lunches, my friend. You are indeed, someone everyone should have in their life. Photographing your lunch....love it!

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

It was quite fun doing it - although a couple of restuarants I went to were a bit dubious about it!

[tijnat.livejournal.com]

My South African Browncoat friends are always taking pictures of their food when we eat out!

I look forward to seeing what else you ate in 28 days! ;)

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

I saw so many pictures of really fancy and special food that I decided it would be fun to take pictures of just every day food. I did surprise myself with what I ate though - there's quite a range but with some recurrent "themes".