Hello & Happy Sunday!

Here I am hanging out at my parent's house for the day. This day is some housework, cooking (both of which I don't seem to mind, even though I don't feel as good about it at my house - weird), and a few little things that I forget to do during the week. Usually, I can easily convince my mom to change the channel from CNN, her favorite, to The Food Network - which I love.

Anyway, two notes about my days here, which are kind of connected. First, we LOVE the Food Network and every once in a while we watch a show with a new recipe and get to make it... and usually that comes out easy. Strangely enough, with my love for watching people on TV cook, and even cooking when I am at my parent's house, I cannot seem to get myself to get excited about cooking at my house. Now, do I have a nice kitchen? eh, No. Do my parent's? ABSOLUTELY. So that could it be, but I still need to finds a way to translate my love for cooking to my personal/solo life. Also, on a side note, it is obviously easier to cook for 3 then just for 1. So that's another issue all together.

Second, I am slightly obsessed with reading blogs. Sometimes they are people that I know, or have known in the past... sometimes I find myself reading about someone that I do not know. The reason that these a tied together is that I have landed on a blog about preparing lunch (not really cooking, but it mixes bringing my own food to work with trying to be more environmentally friendly - which is another goal of mine).

So the other blog is called Bento Lunch , and is written by a mom who sends her children to work with Bento Box Lunches. This seems like an easy way to make lunch - and make it healthy, rewarding and we rounded. So I might give it a try for my work lunches. Then I need to start planning out meals that can translate into lunches the next day... maybe not always as leftovers, but maybe the ingredients could work for lunch also... who knows.

So, it seems easy enough, I just need to get in the mode of planning my meals again - something that I did before but it only lasted a couple of weeks, as schedules got crazy - I know, story of my life.

I am going to try to blog about how this goes - trying to be budget friendly, health friendly, enviro-friendly, and to not stress myself out too much... though I will admit I am a little stressed out just thinking about it.

Alright, away we go... Have a great week...

C