warning: don't read this while eating

since i'm leaving this afternoon for a five day weekend in iowa, i couldn't bear to go out to grab lunch (i've got food here! why spend the money?) or run to the grocery store (whatever i buy will likely go bad while i'm gone), so today is eat-random-leftovers day.  i dislike this kind of day.  for lunch i had the following:

• four mini vegetable eggrolls that i found in the freezer.  there was once a packet of sauce that went with them.  it is now missing, and the duck sauce i had in the fridge expired in september and BOY DID IT LOOK LIKE IT EXPIRED IN SEPTEMBER.  eww.  okay then - four mini eggrolls with a random packet of soy sauce i found.  excellent.
• a cheese quesadilla, made with two different kinds of cheese - not because i am fancy, but because i only had small portions of each cheese.
• approximately 20 chickpeas, eaten from the can until i realized eating chickpeas by themselves isn't exactly delicious. 

things i threw away while looking for food to eat:
1. the aforementioned duck sauce.
2. fresh parsley that i never used because i forgot i bought it
3. old cheddar cheese
4. half an onion whose other half was used approximately two weeks ago
5. a half gallon of barely used milk that expired november 8th.  it was so gross i had been holding out on throwing it away because (a) i wanted to recycle the plastic container, so (b) i had to pour out the GROSS milk inside.  i hope you are appropriately disgusted.  i can start talking about my dog bite wound any time now if you'd rather hear about that...


i would rather have been eating Fiery Sweet Potatoes
and my grandma's green bean casserole
and my sister's mashed potatoes
and Chocolate Bread Pudding.

but i guess that's what thanksgiving is for, right?  HOORAY.