Wow, no time to really do a full treatise -- I just finished a long workday and I am attending an all-weekend Buddhist retreat for the next few days.
It would be much easier to just go out to lunch at the coop, which is just down the street from our sangha's center, but I have been really high-raw the past few days and I don't want to blow it, in case the deli does not have the raw or raw-ish selections. A full day of meditating and studying is actually quite hard work, and I just don't feel like a bowl of fruit will cut it. So I am trying to plan what to take for my lunches that will go down quickly enough, but have enough calories that I won't get hungry. We have a full hour for lunch, but I am such a slow eater to start with, and in meditation everything tends to get slower -- I will be hard put to pack in enough food in an hour that I won't get hungry again by 2:00!
So I'll make two smoothies when I get up (man, that'll feel early!) and take one. I'd like to make my usual red pepper/cashew dip and take sliced turnip and Manna bread, but I'm starting to fade tonight and I still have to make dinner. If I don't manage that treat, I'll have to get up even earlier and make a salad with mashed avocado and spices as dressing ... and what else? That won't be enough. I made my signature pie-in-a-blender (orange, apple, pear, spices, soaked almonds, and carob) but used banana instead of a pear, and it SUCKS!! I really don't like bananas that much, and that's all I taste in this batch, but it's what I have. If I really punk out, I can take that and an Asian pear as the dipping medium.
Or if worse comes to worst, I can always get a boring expensive green salad and fruit and the coop ... and hope I can resist if they have Almond Udon noodles. Or, God forbid, cake.