Lunch

This is lunch. Leftovers from Supper last night (except for the avacado) but oh so much better than the fast food choices near my office. :-) Simple food but good and mostly healthy. The hamburger patty is made from 93% lean meat. When I cooked the patties I got so little grease I had to put a bit of butter in the skillet to saute the onions/peppers/mushrooms that are on top. Add a slice of cheese on top and it makes really good eating. Usually I use Swiss but this time I didn't have any so I used provolone. I'm not sure I don't like it better than the Swiss. This used to be my favorite hamburger when I was eating them on a bun. Now I just leave the bun off and add a couple veggies. David wasn't really enthusiastic about it the first time I made it. Until he tried it. This time when he saw I'd bought fresh mushrooms he requested it. :-) With the addition of a couple cans of assorted veggies it makes a good, quick meal when you come home from work and are too tired to put much effort into cooking.

Until recently I ate lunch out most days. Which gets expensive and isn't all that healthy. Especially since most of what is available within 5 miles of the office is Mexican food, or burgers, or pizza, or carb-laden meat/vegetable/bread meal specials. So I'm trying to limit myself to lunch out just once a week and the rest of the time I'm bring leftovers from supper or a chef salad. And surprise, surprise I'm not NEARLY as sleepy in the afternoon as I was after eating all those heavy lunches. Not that I still don't continue to have a bit of lethargy from my out-of-whack thyroid levels but at least I don't have the carb-coma adding to the problem. And one day when my thyroid gets regulated maybe, just maybe, I'll even manage to go a whole afternoon without falling asleep at my desk!