Homemade jerk BBQ chicken with onions, baked beans (maple/bacon flavored), and cottage cheese

two years ago when i started back up at my college (after almost four years away, aaaaah!), i was super excited because there was a kick-ass food court on campus. well, because god hates me, that first day back i was all ready to order up some orange chicken from panda express between classes--only--horror of horrors--the food court was closed down and then demolished. it took them two years to build the new one--two years i had to either bring a lunch, starve, or buy something so greasy it slid right off the counter of the 'roach coach' and into my hands. today i got to eat at the new food court! because my campus is ultra-PC, we have food from all over the world represented--sushi, chinese, all-american, and coming soon: mexican, juice/smoothies, and ice cream. oh, for the love of god! food court, i sing thy praises! anyhow, today i had a two-item chinese food combo. it wasn't entirely gross, but passable. sub-par chow mein, sadly. oh well. thursday i go back to try the uber-trendy boba drink. i would go back now, but i don't want to shoot my wad in one attempt, you know what i mean?

I had a gyro sandwhich and six fallafel balls. I love saying the words fallafel balls.

I had some weird potato cheetoo thingys I bought for the first time this weekend. They are fat-free, which means, just like many fat-free chip products, they make you sick to your stomach :( I also had chef salad and four of ginger snaps.

so another grilled chicken caesar salad with vinagrette dressing and a fruit and yogurt parfait for dessert. two gross things happened during lunch, one of the guys that worked at the "restaurant" had cauliflower ear like you read about in 9th grade health class, and a roach crawled out of my pencil holder.

an apple.

sad, isn't it?

i had a meeting with a potential client. he took FOREVER to eat. and my card got denied cos it was demagnified at the airport. that was plenty embarrassing. i had this chicken marsala pasta. it was supposed to be on fusilli but it was tubes. it was good tho. now i have the shittiest breath/burps ever.

Today I had taco bell. I got what I always get when I go there. Two double deckers and a coke.

I had a stir fry bowl from Trader Joe's (the best grocery store in the world).

i'm still eating leftovers from the company meetings/parties. so i had pimiento cheese on melba toast (the toast was too greasy) and cheetos and doritos. it was totally orange. someone tried to offer me leftover shrimps but as a total orangist i refused em on a color basis. I didnt let that stop me from eating a sugar cookie for dessert though. I'll probably have a brownie later too.

Today I did errands at lunch, and when I got back, I immediately got really busy and somehow forgot to eat. At 3:30 I nuked some Wolfgang Puck's chicken and rice soup and ate some cottage cheese as a side. I was surprised to notice orzo in the soup in addition to the rice. It was good though - his soups are all pretty tasty. Wednesday and Thursday I ate the same thing I did on Tuesday.

say no to the fruit cup!

I had a ham sandwhich and doritos which were good. Then I had tapioca pudding from Nature's and now I have an urgent need to vomit.

i had a philly steak sandwhich and a large coke. the coke tastes especialy good cause the weather is so nice. it's one of those perfect indian summer days.

I had a roast beef sandwich from the lunch cart, although I really think I should have gone for the chicken cacciatore and pasta on special.

just went to lunch with my friend from the arts council. we went to applebee's which she thought was a scream. i thought it was a totally normal, unfunny thing to do. i got the southwestern chicken salad. a real hit or miss operation. today it was delish. but with gross guacamole.

( we finally solved the riblets mystery. apparantly its some part of the shoulder. the waitress told us.)

today i steak soft tacos and a coke but i'm already hungry again. yesterday i got in trouble a work so just ran down to the convenience store for a wrap to eat at my desk while waiting for my boss to arrive.

hey ya'll! I'm at the company meeting and we had roast beef sandwiches, potato salad, broccolli salad, chips, and and ice cream sandwich sundae dessert. Yummmm.

i went with my brother to this great sub shop. i got the turkey melt which is turkey, ranch, onions, tomatoes all melted up under swiss. then we had to go get my mom a cookie cos the cookies there were lame grandma brand.

i was out and about living my glamorous life, so i went the way of the mcdonald's drive thru lane. i got the two cheeseburgers meal, which i never get, and as an added bonus it gave me a rousing case of indigestion. like i said, my life is glamorous.

so after all that wendys talk i couldnt stand it and had to go. had the single combo. it was delish. i was quite surly before lunch. i think i will be riding this grease euphoria for at least another 20 minutes.

Turkey sandwich on a sub roll and an orange supplemented by another sampling of pasta salad, macaroni salad, doritos cheetos and some kind of peanut butter cereal bar with chocolate icing.

Today:
Grilled greek-style marinated chicken, with pepperocinis, peppercorn feta, no tomatoes (forgot them today). Also, cottage cheese and an apple.

Yesterday:
Grilled chicken, pepperocinis, peppercorn feta, chopped tomato from my garden, with a side of cottage cheese, but no apple this time. Don't ask me to explain that.

i had a hummus and fetta begal at Einsteins. I opted for the potato salad side and a pickle. this is a real light lunch for me. oh well.

I had a bowl of vegetable soup and an everything bagel with garden veggie cream cheese.

i just went and had lunch at a sidewalk cafe with my dad. it was nice but i was guilty about smoking cos people were so close. i smoked anyway. and i had to get my mom a sandwich, i got her the chicken salad, but i didnt want it cos its the kind with grapes. i got this turkey, havarti sandwich with apricots and green chili mayonaisse. it was really good, but the pasta salad was like cool ranch doritos in pasta form.

At lunch I got the new Outkast, and had the hardest freaking time getting it open. the double album gimmick means that the top and bottom have the protective plastic sticker label so you cant turn it inside out from the hinge to get the label off. and then I couldnt figure out which one i wanted to listen to first. but i finally got it. its like i was acting like my mom with her new christmas music cd from pottery barn or something. but does anyone else still get a little thrill when the album has a Parental Advisory sticker on it? i feel all naughty and remember when i got Appetite for Destruction for my birthday in 6th grade and my dad had to read the liner notes but gave it back to me anyway and then my birthday party went and saw say anything. I felt like such a teenager. But anyway, for lunch I had a veggie bagel on a rosemary and olive oil bagel and a half of a salt bagel with salsa cream cheese.

i didn't eat breakfast at breakfast-time, so i saved it for lunch time. which means i had bacon, eggs and toast with this awesome pink grapefruit marmalade. (notice the inclusion of bacon, the world's tastiest meat?)

Today I went to Anthony's pizza and had two slices of super greasy new york style pizza with sausage and a mr. pibb. I used to go there about once a week but have tired of it recently. but it was nice cause the girl behind the counter still remembered me and cred enough to ask why I haven't been coming around lately.

i went home and had a spaghetti and meatballs lean cuisine cos i was too lazy to make a sandwich. i microwaved it at the same time as the tv in the kitchen was on which was rebellious cos my moms paranoid and freaks when i do that. i also had a bunch of these little eclairs. i couldnt stop myself.

Everyone in my office is still suffering from a lack of power, so we all had to go elsewhere for lunch today. Three of us went to the Department of Agriculture cafeteria. I didn't have much money and my stomach hates me, because I have had to eat a lot weird stuff over the last few days, so I just had a sandwich and a diet pepsi.

This weekend we had our company picnic here at work, and I was POSITIVE when i left the house this morning that there would be mountains of leftover ribs waiting for me when i got here, and i wouldnt be eating the lean cuisine roasted vegetable pizza I brought.

I was wrong. No dice on the ribs. There was still macaroni and chicken pasta salad and twisted cheetos and doritos and pickles and peanut butter pie, so I ate all of that with my pizza instead of ribs.

i went to this diner in my high school neighborhood with my friend bunny. i had 'rocky cod chunks' which is basically an unattractive way of saying fish and chips. they make the world's best coleslaw there, too, so that was a bonus. i had a chocolate chip shake and decided to never order one again because the chips get stuck in the straw and at the end you're left with spoonfuls of chips and they aren't even that tasty. besides, i don't like to work for my indulgent rewards, you know?

Greek salad without the salad: Grilled chicken, pepperocinis, peppercorn feta, chopped tomato from my garden. About an hour later I swiped a piece of free pizza from the break room even though I wasn't hungry. The pizza was from a place near my house that I've never tried, so I convinced myself I had to try it as a "test." It was decent, not great.

Went to chipolte again. Got another free coke. The guy behind the register knows i spend some serious dough there. i got the naked fajita. welcome slp.

i comitted the cardinal sin of going to the grocery store and being hungry at the same time. then i shopped for so long i kind of wore myself out, and the idea of making something for lunch didn't sound so fun afterwards. but then gross fast food didn't sound good either. so instead i went home and made a blt. four hundred times better than any restaurants because i load on the bacon. i love bacon. i'd make a crappy jew and a crappy vegetarian. i've tried to be both in the past. yum, lunch!

Subway. Eat Fresh. Yeah Right.

i had this swanky bbq sandwich at the flying frog. they even let me substitute salad for potato salad. which is terrif cos they have shitty potato salad but fantastic cucumber ranch dressing.

a grilled chicken caesar salad. and i'm too embarrassed to say where it is from.

Bowl of vegetable soup, grilled chicken breast (Italian marinade), cottage cheese.

Turkey and avocado sandwhich on sourdough. I kep biting into little bits of hard processed turkey fat. It was gross. Then I had a white nectarine which turned out to be really slimey. Bad lunch day for me.

i had to go to a workshop today. it wasnt the snoozefest i thought it would be. only kinda horrible. but we had untypical buffet food. this chicken and strawberry salsa, and these orzo/feta boats in zucchini. it was actually pretty good. the ranch for the salad was top notch. and frankly you cant beat a roll with butter.

I was out running errands during most of my lunch hour today so i stooped in for a qiuck philly and fries from steak escape. I'm not a very big fan of there sandwhiches (mostly cause the bread is kinda hard) but if you get it with A1 sauce and banana peepers it's tollerable.

Same thing as Monday, and Tuesday...

turkey sandwich from home, a cup of chili from wendy's, and some red grapes. did you know that a bag of grapes at the grocery store costs over $4! im saving an orange for later, since the chili replaced that space in my belly.

I had tuna noodle gratin lean cusine-thing for lunch today. It was pretty good, but I was starving an hour later, so I went down to the vending machines to get something else. I put my dollar in the machine to get a diet pepsi and of course the bottle got stuck, so there went that dollar. Then I decided to get some pretzels, I put my fifty cents in and hit the JACKPOT. Things just started falling out of the machine, it was crazy. I really thought the whole machine was going to empty out, but it stopped after barbeque chips, cheese crackers, pretzels, twinkys, milky way bar and a couple of other things had fallen. I didn't quite know what to do, part of me wished I had had my purse with me to bring some stuff back for my officemates (or stash them in my desk for another day), but I didn't and I really didn't want to walk through the museum lobby, onto the elevator, and through the archives and library, carrying an arm full of junk food. So, I just grabbed my pretzels and the milky way bar and told the security guards on break that there was free food in the machine.

i ate a crummy sandwich at my moms house. my brother was there hurrying me cos he needed a ride. the sandwich was okay but i toasted the bread to much so it was all mouth cutty. and my mom was out of mayo. good tomatoes tho. they were grown at the lake.

i thought i would be lazy since i went to the dentist and go to mcdonalds and i ordered chicken mcnuggests a cheeseburger and fries. totally gross. but delicious. i had to just chew on one side of my mouth since the other side is numb.

Soup and Salad from Nature's - sorry, it's Wild Oats now. The salad was good, but the soup tasted like they made the original recipe then watered it down to make twice as much. And this guy Nate who is a brewer just told me that's exactly how they make Bud and PBR. They increase the alcohol content of the batch, then add carbonated water to it. Hmmm...

Apparently hot dog season is officially over. I ate a greek salad (lettuce, feta, tomato, onion, and pepperocinis) with chicken that I marinated and grilled last night, cottage cheese and a Gala apple.

today i had another sandwhich from jhonny mcguires. it's called the buhdda. stacked on white bread is turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, bannana peppers, mayo-curry spread and sunflower seeds.

I put all of the food I had left together last night and ended up with whole wheat pasta, chicken, broccoli and some fat-free cheese. It was pretty good. It went well with the sugar cookies my co-worker brought in.

baked spaghetti.

my mom and brother called up and said they were bringing shit by my office to put in the dumpster and did i wanna get lunch? my mom wanted to go to salsas but i wasnt in the mood for pork in chocolate with pinapple serrano chutney under a banana leaf. so we went to lorettas. i had a tuna sandwich and gazpacho.

Today I ate for lunch: avocado, cucumber and carrot sushi rolls and an apple. For breakfast I had a brownie and milk.

i just had a chicken salad sandwich with a cup of parmesean/ broccoli soup. i was losing it before lunch. i feel much better now.

Indian food buffet (all you can eat) - chicken makhani, some kind of ground lamb dish with peas (Kibi Wat?), a couple of pieces of Nan, rice, a few fried onions, and some potato curry thing. Immediately went into a heavy food coma and could barely stay awake all day.

Tuna melt with salad (had sunflower seeds in it-yum), pepsi, and a pecan turtle. so good!

i wasnt hungry at lunch but drove past a mcdonalds and couldnt stand it. so i had a hamburger and a coke.

I had some chicken and mac and cheese today. I've been sick for three days, so I needed some good ol' southern comfort food.

Last night i made cracker chicken stew and brought it for lunch today. the only ingredients are 1 fat hen, a box of butter, a tablespoon of red pepper, and a box of saltines. oh and black pepper to taste. next time i wont use so much butter because i dont think my hen was fat enough. I aslo had a cranberry bagel with special imported french jams we have here at work. we are having a tasting because we might start selling them. i tried wild berries, black currant, and fig. there are 10 more flavors to try, all with more intimidating titles.

I had a salami sandwich and a brownie with sweat tea.

i had to go to this meeting today and on our way back we stopped in this restaurant that looked like a strip club. but it turned out to be this sort of old fashioned steak house. i had this black and blue salad that was fantastic. the steak was anyway. the bleu could have been a little more toe jammy.

Feeling adventurous - today I had an orange with my turkey hot dog with ketchup and deli mustard and cottage cheese.

a bbq tray with slaw and hush puppies and pork skins but i didnt eat the skins, they just come along for the ride. My fingers are greasy and are leaving marks all over my computer.

Today:
Peruvian ceviche tuna. Kidding. I had the usual: turkey hot dog with ketchup and deli mustard, apple, cottage cheese

Sunday:
Brunch in Pacific City - 2 scrambled eggs, perfect hash browns with extra salt and ketchup, 4 pieces of bacon, which was not as crisp as I'd like. The waitress sat down at the table with us while we ordered. It was weird.

Saturday:
A sammich consisting of tomato from my garden, fresh basil, and smoked mozzarella from Zupan's.

It is a rainy, cool day and i had Chinese while reading Raymond Chandler. The egg roll was prefectly fried, not too greasy. I spent the whole meal trying to determine whether i liked the taste of the garlic chicken. I don't think i did. I didnt really eat teh Hot & Sour soup that came with it. The woman at the table next to me turned around and said "I'm pregnant, and cant tell if things really do taste funny, can you tell me if this tea tastes old?" It just tasted like chinese food sweet tea to me. My fortune was "Everyone has enemies." On the way back i heard the NPR voice that says "ADM the supermarket to the world" and all those sponsor things at the end of a show read the lyrics to "Welcome to the Jungle." I think he's trying to diversify because him doing the voiceover to some symbol book that comes with audio directions. After 3 PM ET you can hear the reading here.

Boss's boss brought in Krispy Kreme's this morning, and I ate two so I told myself I would skip lunch or at least eat less, and eat later in the afternoon, but I had the usual: turkey hot dog with deli mustard and ketchup, cottage cheese, apple. My lunch habits may actually be too boring for this site. I tend to eat the same work lunch for a week or two straight. I've been on the hot dog kick for a while now.

We tried to have just a ladies day for lunch, but when we told our boss we were all leaving we felt bad and invited him, which was sort of disappointing. But then he ended up picking up the tab. We went to the Mexican place in City Market which is always packed with high rise workers. I got a chicken fajita burrito, which is basicaaly what comes on those sizzlin' fajita plates rolled up in a tortilla with sauce poured on top and rice on the side. it was tasty, but converstation was dull. it was all about the michael Peterson murder trial, which is the less notorious nationally, but more scandalous locally Peterson murder trial. i'm tired of it, and tired of talking to my coworkers. i hope that doesnt make me evil.

turkey hot dog with deli mustard and ketchup, cottage cheese, Fritos (forgot the apple this morning)

So much talk about bacon! Well I have a bacon story too:
The BLT burrito from The Kitchen (kind of a whitey mexican food place in NYC). I actually tried to order this yesterday for lunch but there was a $12 minimum. So today I had cohorts go in with me so that it would be worth their while to deliver it.
IT WAS SO GROSS! What was I thinking? BLT burrito? I felt sure that bacon could not be put to any bad purposes (even though yesterday I ordered a bacon, egg, cheese from the diner and the bacon was super raw! i peeled it off but the smell of it still haunted me!). So I thought bacon and I would heal our relationship today. But this time, it was slabs of that gross thick British-style bacon. The kind you'd get served at the Chip Shop in Park Slope. The "L" was this really crunchy kale-type lettuce and the "T" was this nasty watery salsa. Plus it was loaded down with the spiciest chipolte mayo I've ever tasted. I was sweating bullets and couldn't belive how badly burned I got by a fusion burrito. I haven't had this much bacon trauma since the first time I got served halal bacon in a diner in Brooklyn.

Today, I decided not to have pita and hummus. I had part of a tex-mex chicken casserole that I made to eat for dinners this week. I also had some chips and black bean dip. It was a nice change and for once, I'm not starving 30 minutes after I get back to my desk.

i had bacon-wrapped hotdogs on saturday. bacon and hotdogs are heavenly. go to www.watchmeeatahotdog.com and scroll down to the september 2nd entry... yum! yum! today i have not eaten anything.... maybe i will find food on the way out to the mailbox but probbly not.

when will i learn that fast food bacon sucks sucks sucks (except for the bacon on the jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy's)? the office manager went and got arby's and i thought i would try their "ultimate blt." terrible. terrible. 1 thin slice of tomato on each half. too much bad tasting mayo (it was like they took the horseys out of the horsey sauce) and too thick bread. it also has that gross peppered bacon like what bruegger's has. I also got a cherry turnover, but it is just sitting on my desk because i have immediate indigestion from the blt. i will eat it later. I promise i dont eat fast food everyday. My favorite part about this blog is getting to trash food that made me sick. its like a personal revenge.

I went to one of the better sandwhich shops in downtown today. I usually go there on fridays as a treat but I'll be out of town so I went there today. I got a sandwhich called the "El Buey". It has roast beef, cheddar cheese, avacado and jalapenos as the main ingredients (also had onions, mayo, lettuce, tomatoes). Its served warm so the cheese is melted.

Today was my boss's birthday lunch, so we went to Portland Brewing Company. None of us drank any beer. I ate 2 very large onion rings, one half of a scotch egg, and half of a huge "drunken ham sandwich" which consisted of ham, swiss, fried onions, and tons of beer mustard - you know, the kind with the large brown seeds?

i had a half tuna sandwich and some broccoli parmesean soup. i got it from this great sandwich place lorettas. the people there are real tattooey and its real hot. it was delish.

today i went to my favorite mexican restaurant, La Fiest, with a couple of guys from work. whenever i go there i get the "hubs burrito". it's not on the menu but people there know what it is. super burrito, beef and been, green chile, x-tra cheese. and a coke to wash it down with. and of course a couple of bowls of chips and salsa. mmmmm. i should go there more often.

Brought my lunch: turkey hot dog, apple, cottage cheese

i just had lunch with miss elizabeth. we went to early girl. i had this bbq chicken sandwich and great potato salad. she had a steak sandwich with basil mayo and this chicken beef vegetable soup, that sounded grody.. but looked good. and she said it was good.

Today:
I had brunch - a fried egg and 3 pieces of center cut bacon. I overcooked the eggs, but Justin was nice enough not to mention it.

The lunch cart doesn't really move around as the name might suggest, but it could, I guess. They have pretty good food. You can always get a regular entree for $4.25, which has a meat and veggie or two and they also have sandwiches, soup and salad. I think baked potato bar Wednesdays are everyone's favorite.

So i went to Mcdonald's today. I've been trying to avoid going since this lunch blog started, and it is really embarassing how often i go. McD's is right next store, and the next closest place to eat is a few blocks away. So today, stuck at the office on Labor Day, I went. I ate a bacon grilled chicken garden salad with Vin. dressing. it was like a bowl of green sodium. Leave it to MCDonald's to make BACON a bad ingredient.