do you pack your lunch?

you're the man! i made it sure i have my dhaal and rice once or twice a week too...

Yeah, I can't live without RICE. hahaha Satisfaction given by rice is different. ahaha :)

bread is nothing compared to the staple foods we grown up with.

let the food cool out first before putting into your lunch box. that's what my mom and elder siblings were doing. while we are having our breakfast, the lunch has been set aside at one place waiting for the temperature to settle down then pack it. i hate carrying food which i can feel the heat penetrating at my back or at my side.

you need to wake up early.. my mom used to lambaste my door with a drum stick (tambor) lol if i remain asleep. that's her technique as am not being roused by her simple calls you know! really i sleep like a lard!!

Yeah hate that too, and it's all messy and wet during lunch time. Yes, that's the tip but when you are really in a hurry you cannot afford to do that. I usually prepare my own packed lunch! ;)

o my god.. you just made me remember my mom... she gets up before the dawn for us... i really miss my mom now as i did not have the time to see her during my recent vacation.. she lives in india with my father but i took my recent vacation in spain my dad's hometown as my brother saddee is there waiting for me... there were times that i placed my lunch box back at the dining table in our kitchen as i hate carrying it but when my mom noticed it, she'll come and bring it to me in school...

that's good of you staria. sure you could be a loving mother. what would you want to be a working mom or a plain housewife? well, my mom is an engineer but she never used her degree in exchange for her career as a mother when she get married with my dad and have her 8 offsprings! and yeah! everyone of us had been bre(a)st fed! we love our mom very much!!

Too bad I didnt get to experience that, my mom never did pack our lunch before when we were kids. That's why I will ensure that I pack my kid's snacks/lunch to school when they grow up. :)

oh, i always have my lunch hot whenever i use to working in the field.. if my mom knows that i will go and arrow or plow our rice field, he will come and bring my lunch at 11:30. she'd bring mashed potatoes with cheese and bacon with some nachorapz.. some rice and good viands with vegies and fruits...and she knows my favorite drinks well and that is the coconut water..

Hehe! Actually I live in the city, my profile picture was taken on a trip in a province her in the Philippines. I really can't wake up early, if I rely on my body clock, I'll wake up at 6am which is already late. I rely on my boyfriend to call me and wake me up every single day at 530am.. He's up that hour because he works nights shifts.

what time do you sleep then? gosh, that's practically 3 hours that you use to be upped everyday... lol.. i can't do that...well, your pix shows that you seem to be living in a village and i could imagine that the first croaking of roosters wakes you up at dawn... wow! sorry for saying i can't get up those hours but really i used to it when i was in my hometown during my highshool years...

that's 3 hours prior to office

hi that girl, we've been talking since a while and i have noticed that you are not in my friend list yet.. gosh sorry for that.. please accept my apology.. and we are talking like i have known you for a long time. and you are nice and sweet and funny! now i am sending you my friend request... well it's nice to eat in the cafeteria as you can see a lot of people eating.. there was a guy who loves gozzip and a little medding does he did while we were eating one time... some a lil negative but funny and most of the time positive and you can pick a lot of moral and lessons in it...and i like the companion of this guy...i am not a gozziper nor meddler lol but i love laughing when he started to row the boat.. so we, all his passengers you cannot see anyone without gasping breathe as everyone were carried by his stories with a lot of humor... another thing why i used to eat at the cafeteria is that, you could just sit while ordering and waiting for the food to be served and just leave when you are finished... lol... sorry as am really lazy.. lol

is it possible to carry out your leftovers from your cafeteria...? lol because here, whether you ordered a heaping or a faint in amount, your not allowed to carry out your excess... lol

Thank you for the friend request actually yeah, eating in cafeteria is pretty convenient and there are varieties of food too =)

if not because of the high price of prime commodities here, i should have been packing my lunchs every day too. in that way, i could also watch my diet..lol.. i just used to eat light meals every day in the cafeteria. well, seeing those foods and eating them every day is boring and honestly am getting tired of it. lol but what can i do? there is no any other options other than going to the cafeteria. otherwise, i need to drive 35 or 40 miles away from the work site just to find some good restaurant which can offer variety of foods and more choices... also, i am not good in cooking lol and i hate keeping utensils as i'm only one in my flat if i did not harbor a roommate... lol.. he stays downstairs and i asked him to share with me but he does not like.. he's also receiving his housing allowance so what for is the room sharing.. that he tells, besides, if your having a nightmare i could come up and expect my company everynight....i could ask him to cook but thanks goodness! the kettle almost flighted and the frying pan too has almost turned into ashes!! Gosh.. if i'm lazy, he's more than.. and he's forgetful too!

one thing that i'm trying to get rid of is that, having a heavy lunch as i have trouble breathing when i'm full... lol.. i don't know but eating heavy lunch just made me uncomfortable so i needed to walk along the hallway or march the whole building's perimeter to get settled down.. i hate this!! i have a heartburn and a benign heart murmur too so i avoid eating too much... a lil bite at lunch is what my system just needed as am also sedentary...

i don't understand why people always say eating outside is not always healthy! you know i stayed in a villa to an american compound here and i can say that the food are always healthy. the color is perfect and complete in variety. the messhall is clean and perfect with an open air and i just love eating there as i always think no place should be healthier than there.

so that's pretty hard too. well, i make it sure that if i tend to exert more energy, either at job or my extra activities outdoors, i should eat more so i could sustain my biological needs... i would suggest you to get up in the morning ahead of time and eat if you can. carbo foods like rice is the best thing to eat in the morning so at least we could burn those calories in our long whole day bidding. then eat less at night so that drive us to wake early in the morning and put someting in our stomach..

you do so? that's good to hear. perhaps, in your country, you all have the resources. unlike here that the a gallons of gasoline is a way cheaper than a tray of tomatoes. i'd rather eat outside than having a home-cooked food. not only does eats a lot of time preparing but also a pocket-holing. of course we need to save and that's wisest thing an expat like me want to do....

oh, thanks for saying that honestly... in our case, since we are earning and making our livings by our own, we can decide and have all the time to choose what we want unlike when we were still a dependent...

me too. there were mornings that i have taken heavy breakfast and seem like i do not need to bring my lunch anymore or have another meal again as what i have taken suffices my needs and the amount of energy that i'm going to use.