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lunchies.

we've taken, m and i, to eating those prepackaged frozen lunches, as they're so easily chunked into the car in their neat little boxes and handily frozen and micropopped up. and i don't get to go home for lunch every day now, which is a little sad, but i can deal. we stick with the 'we claim to be better for you' varieties generally, the healthy choice and the lean cuisine. the zatarains, we got once, and were happy with, but they're a dollar fifty more each and for things that are so easily compared in price - meh. they all sit next to each other happily in the grocery freezer and some of them are two bucks and the ones that are five, those are special occasion lunchies. screw 'em. obviously those people don't get capitalism or marketing. so. and since i'm the one going to the grocery store i give a very wide berth to those 'i'm a big manly man' lunches. i hate their advertising. hate. it. but. and m was very happy with the chicken carbonara yesterday and i was oddly impressed by the pot stickers. not really great pot stickers, but recognizable and not really that bad at all. for being frozen and microwaved i was expecting something much mushier. anyway. more like chicken-and-veggie-filled ravioli. it's always sort of a gamble, and it's always weird to actually see what the stupid little dish-thing looks like and how it compares to the cover of the box. all the lean cuizine's (which is what i have today) - i think they show them all in *white* microwaveable trays, whereas they package them all in *black* microwaveable trays, and this one shows an entire chicken breast parmesan when i'm quite sure that it's in handy-bite-sized pieces. i'm sure the zucchini is going to be decent but it won't be that color, it'll be pasty and limp and watery and a little weird, and the snow peas on the covers are never wrinkly. (avoid the healthy choice snow peas, everyone! they are like newborn wrinkly baby alien snow peas from another planet!) pasta is always a risk, too. pasta gets mushy in so many of these things i'm a little nervous about my chicken parmesan, here, being microzapped. wish me luck.

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