Leftovers

This is what I had for lunch today...

DELICIOUS!! 

And this is what I used to have for lunch before I started my cooking challenge...

I know it's terrible, I never used to eat lunch.  For a while I was eating yogurt, berries, granola bars etc. But I would mostly be too lazy either the night before or the morning of to put anything together.  So I'd justify and say, I'll just get something at work.  Except for that I wouldn't.  I'd justify again, I don't want to leave work because I'm in the middle of something so I'll leave early and get something on the way home.  Except I wouldn't until around 5:30pm cranky with a headache I'd go to the Starbucks drive-through and get an overly priced yet delicious latte and a piece of their lemon poppy seed loaf.  Super healthy!

I really think that this unhealthiness was adding to my stress at work, although there are many other factors.  But for a while their I was really miserable, so much so that one of my co-workers kept asking where the "old-Meghan" was.  Eating throughout the day has definitely helped bring back the real me!

Therefore leftovers are amazing.  Except for the fact that I'm finding I have too much leftovers.  Did you ever notice that recipes that are for two people don't make enough (no leftovers) and the others make way too much??  Seriously, if you like what you see above please come and open my fridge.  There is about half a 9x13 pan of this stuff in the fridge!!

Completely unrelated side note:
Today at work I had a hilarious conversation with someone.  We were discussing the can/bottle donation we have in our lunchroom and how the charity wasn't making a whole lot of money.  For whatever reason that made me think of pop can tabs.  You see in elementary school there was regularly a drive for pop can tabs to be used in raising money for wheelchairs for under privileged children.   This thought prompted me to ask my co-worker if they ever had this same thing...before he could answer I wondered.  How do they make wheelchairs out of pop tabs?  And how many does it take?  It was then explained to me that the pop tabs are sold because they are aluminum and they money from the sale is used to BUY a wheelchair.  Mind blown!