Great Meals and Stories

Snacks

What I do to curb the hunger after a fruit breakfast is eat sunflower seeds or trail mix packages. I get up at 7 and eat by 8:30, so around 10:30 or 11, I'm hungry again, no matter how much fresh fruit I ate. To keep me going until lunch, a V8 and some nuts are perfect, and I'm generally held over until around 1 PM.

Don't go for the Planters nuts, though, because those are way too greasy. Try to find one of those salt-free packages of trail mix or health nuts. The V8 is a perfect complement, because it's like a meal by itself, so it both washes the nuts down and fills you up.

Since my lunch is usually both late and quite large, this combo will hold me over on most days until around 9, when I eat a small salad.

Veggie Burger

Man, I just had the most amazing veggie burger at this vegetarian restaurant close to school. It's a local place, called Quantum Leap. The link brings you to a page where they have their menu, which is good to look at when you're feeling like being vegetarian gets boring. It doesn't; it just requires a new kind of creativity and lots of soy.

The burger I had was a tex-mex burger: veggie patty (homemade, delicious), guacamole, and soy sour cream. It came with a fresh salad with ginger-carrot dressing: fabulous. Totally filling and satisfying, and all never touched by animal flesh hands or dairy.

Incidentally, in the July 2005 Cook's Illustrated, there is a recipe for the best veggie burgers. I'll try to figure out a way to distribute that to you guys as soon as I get back down to DC, where my subscription runs.