What’s for lunch?

Frozen pizza. (Yes, that's how the day is going so far...)

Simple and satisfying cheese on toast.

Mackerel: my dose of oily fish so I can feel I'm being healthy.

Peanut butter cookies... fresh from the oven. And there's possibly some cookie dough that doesn't make it INTO the oven. I'll atone with a salad for dinner.

Still the same for days here, as the standard cheese roll and apple suits so many situations: WFH, walking or, as today, an attempt at shopping by car, so as to carry more in one trip and try a 2nd shop nearby if the 1st has too little of what we need. I did this for the 1st time a week ago and only had to wait 12 mins to enter the nearest large Tesco, but they had less than half of our essentials so I proceeded to Waitrose where I had to wait over 35 minutes. They should put up signs with estimated waiting times but today I will go armed with lunch - and reading material - so prepared for the worst.

I had Branston Mediterranean pickle substituted for the normal one last week and it's quite nice.

Tomatoes I guess and sitting out in the sun eating it. 😁

veggie frittata, salad, glass of wine

In today's incarnation of 'Forrest's attempt at healthy living', lunch was a carrot, leek, tomato and butter beans stew, with smoked paprika and oregano and topped with greek yoghurt. (I seem to be noticing a pattern there. My slight obsession with all things Ottolenghi may have spilled over into all of my cooking...)
I dare say it turned out so well, that I was tempted to have another serving, but ultimately decided to leave half for tomorrow, because sometimes it's so nice not to have to cook.

There's no dessert, I ran out of dark chocolate, so it's followed by just a coffee. :)

lynette , thank you, I try. I realised how awful I've been eating lately, and now that I have the time - and thus have no excuse - have decided to make a conscious effort about it. 

However, today is Easter and (although I don't really celebrate it) that calls for a little decadence, whatever that may mean to different people. So my lunch was kind of a brunch, and not particularly healthy, but I'll make up for that with a salad for dinner. :) Baked beans, greek yoghurt, za'atar, 2 soft boiled eggs and some toast (cut into strips for dipping into the eggs, which is a personal favourite way to eat them!).

Dessert to follow: it will be a hot cross bun, toasted and lightly buttered; maybe some jam too. I also predict some (more) coffee in my near future.

Super simple carrot soup from Heidi Swanson's 101 Cookbook site and a farro with roasted vegetables salad. Dessert was a citrus-infused pound cake with cornmeal that Melissa Clark of the NYT recently wrote about. Cut the sugar in half and subbed apple sauce for all the oil to make it more healthy. Still was quite tasty, particularly with a dollop of vanilla yogurt.

Lunch was another picnic but this evening I home made pizza and it turned out great. Tomorrow I am trying bread rolls!