Food Digest

I heard a “pop” and realized, “Oh yeah, if I run the toaster and the microwave at the same time, it blows a fuse.”

Campbell’s chicken corn chowder with a couple slices of toast. Simple, cheap, electrically powerful.

I’m trying to save money, can you tell? A thrifty bowl of store-brand Italian style wedding (with meatballs) soup and a hastily cobbled together turkey sandwich on thumb-impressed white bread. There is no shame in this.

If there’s a way to take a photo of a bowl of soup that DOESN’T make it look like a sick person’s sick, I haven’t found it. However, this bowl of Campbell’s Chunky chicken broccoli cheese with potato soup tasted much better than it looked.

I also toasted a couple slices of white bread to break off and dip into the broth, which somehow enhances the dreary lunchtime-bowl-of-soup experience for me.

Chicken and vegetable noodle soup from Manee Thai. Since it’s pretty much my first real meal of the day, it hit the spot. Corn, peas, cabbage, bean pods, all kinds of good stuff in a chicken broth with noodles and hunks of chicken. If this doesn’t make me better, nothing will.

Woke up this morning with a bad case of the … uh, let’s just say I wasn’t feeling good. Called in sick to work, slept as long as I could, then tried to eat some chicken noodle soup. 

I failed. Got maybe three spoonfuls inside me before I had to go lay down again.

But oh! That’s a gleaming spoon.

(Note: This is Trader Joe’s-brand chicken noodle soup. Not the Campbell’s good stuff, which is now added to my grocery list so my cupboard is properly stocked in case of a future emergency like this.)