Lunch for the week 10/22/17 (yeah, late)

Posting this week's lunch was difficult, yesterday's work time was lacking in empty time not otherwise spent.  Last night was more of the same, and I am never going to be able to post on Monday during working hours, even if I felt comfortable bringing my personal laptop in to the office and getting onto social media.

Mondays at the job do not have enough time to breathe, never mind goof off.

This Week's Lunch

It was supposed to be shrimp and chicken fried rice, but a co-worker forgot to bring her lunch and decided to order Italian delivery.  I've always had a weakness for fried calamari and marinara sauce.  I did have a little bit of the fried rice I made, but .... 

batter dipped inner tube slices!  It was delicious, and it was gone very very quickly.

The source of this was a visit to the local Aldi store, they offer a wide variety of foods as well as household stuff.  They had frozen packages of chicken fried rice and shrimp fried rice.  I cooked them up with an extra scrambled egg and some chopped onions.  The chicken bag had a separate sauce added after cooking, the shrimp was all mixed together.  They were officially 2 servings each, but they filled the frying pan and then some, and I'm using the 3 cup containers for the lunches.  It's a rather large meal.

What I would change

Not doing this again, the two dishes don't mesh well together, there's edamame in the chicken fried rice and it's got probably too much sodium but it's oddly bland.  They'd probably be better as separate meals, not lumped together.  If I try something like this again, only one package of pre-made stuff, and more adulteration.

Well, some experiments are failures.