I don't know about you, but my family very rarely sits down to a hot lunch together. Usually we're at school or our jobs, or we're grabbing some yogurt and berries or leftovers from the 'fridge if we are home for lunch.
Today we turned our usual practices on their head and had grilled flank steak and a tomato and basil salad for lunch, with some fresh blackberries. We've been running around lately, and I knew that if I didn't cook this steak soon it wasn't going to be edible anymore, so I fired up the grill on this 93 degree day and marinated the steak in some lime juice, ground cumin, Dijon mustard, vegetable oil and salt and black pepper for about 15 minutes. Half an hour later, we sat down to juicy grilled steak and sides and bubbly lemonade for a summer time treat. Solomon's away at camp, but Celia and Andrew were tickled to have such a deluxe lunch for a change.
Once in a while it reminds us that we're alive and free to make new choices when we completely mix up our routines, especially in such a delicious way.
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I am inudated with perfectly clean flyers, documents, and other paper notices that come to me with print on only one side of the page. Instead of recycling this paper straight away, I put it in my printer to print all of my draft or non-official work on the unused side of the paper.
I also use less-tidy paper or the clean bottom portion or backs of junk mail for my scrap paper before I recycle that.
It is amazing how much paper I save by reusing before I recycle.
Also, as a teacher of young children, I notice that many children only take a few sips of their lunch time juice box and then declare it finished. An opened juice box cannot travel back home in a child's lunch bag; so often a practically full juice box gets thrown away. Parents could save a lot of money as well as curb their consumption of extra manufacturing if they provided their child with a washable, reusable water bottle, such as a Rubbermaid closable straw cup, instead of a juice box.
Sounds good. We have pancakes or french toast for dinner and the idea of dinner at lunch is good on weekends here.
I also do my laundry across the street from Trader Joes and walk over to get some shopping done.
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