Friday, November 14, 2008

xc and the lunch menu

so i work on the champs-elysees, one of the most expensive avenues in france and i don't earn as much as those who make tambay along its. la duree is just in front of my office, fouquet a bit further up. so it's totally understandable that i usually have a hard time choosing what i'd eat for lunch every single day. and no, i don't eat at la duree nor fouquet (besides i only have 1 hour for lunch).

everyday i go through my coin purse to check how much i can spend for lunch that day. everyday i go to the supermarket a block away to do lunch shopping. some days it's a sandwich (most days i should say) others it's a 2-minute microwave meal usually some sort of pasta. i don't like going to fast food joints anymore...no more mcdonald's and kfc for me. sometimes i bring food from home but nowadays it's just so depressing to get up in the morning while it's still dark that i don't even bother.

today i sort of was craving for salad (i've been craving for salad for the past 3 days) so i went to the supermarket to check out what's available. a bowl of leaves is more expensive than a nice sandwich. then again a small bowl of salad won't be enough to whet my appetite so i thought of maybe buying a small sandwich plus salad. but by the time i made that decision, i wasn't craving for salad anymore. so i left the supermarket to walk around and maybe, hopefully, find something to eat.

i found a daily monop' (a small version of the supermarket but only selling ready to eat meals) in a side street and went in. basically it was the same stuff as that in the supermarket. i decided, again, to just get the salad-sandwich meal there but what do i see just beside the salad area?

a small freezer full of ben and jerry's goodies!!!

to make the long story short: lunch menu for the day: ham and cheese sandwich with a side of chunky monkey.


I've always bought ben and jerry's by pints and this one's just one small cup. i didn't know that a spoon was already provided inside. cool.


at 2.90, my ice cream was more expensive than my sandwich. but who cares!! it's friday and i can do whatever i want.










it seems that i only post entries on fridays.
cool.
have a happy weekend

peace, luv, and , hoping i don't break something skiing this weekend,
xc

1 comment:

Mai da Paypay said...

grabe. i can eat a complete lunch for P70. come back home to the third world!!!

or not. haha! para may mag tour samen sa paris next year ;-)