Day 9...Packing Lunch

Back to work means new challenges. It also means I may need to find a bigger lunch box...
Two days of being away from home made me realize how much I was relying on the fridge and kitchen functions to enable me to have local, home prepared meals and snacks.
My lunch box was bursting with containers of fruits, salads, eggs, and various homemade snacks.
I had to get to the classroom to get things ready for school and found myself snacking when I was hungry and getting along fine until the time came to head out for another school obligation. There, I found myself surrounded by many, many sugar filled, non-local edible items calling out to me..."Just a bite! You have eaten like this before!" As I found myself answering "Yes" to an invitation to join a colleague for lunch in the room filled with such foods with the ethereal voices of meals past, I also recall reaching for the small, but pride-saving, box of local gold edibles en route.
Meal Summary: Contents of lil' lunch box plus a few crackers and minuscule amount of chicken salad. I will chalk that up to good with a side of well done!
That was yesterday and today fared even better...
I decided to tempt the boundaries of my lil' munch box and went full scale on the home-made salad and extra fruit, plus some left-over potatoes. I also added to this bounty of local yum, the soon-to-be famous granola bars that I delightfully gleed about the day before (to colleagues).
This afternoon was a moment for me...watching the faces of those (besides my loved one at home) consume what was my first attempt at home-made goodness. It was a grand experience, to say the least. I thought my granola bars were good. I was very happy with the final result. Loved one was also thrilled...(but does that truly count as a review?) so to see the faces of those not bound by devotion with the same thrilled expression as a result of consuming my granola bars...well, it was just swell.
Due to this magnificent reaction I feel it is my duty to continue to add to the happiness and peace in the world through the home production of these bars. Who knows- maybe my segway to the non-local/organic eating public on the benefits of this way of consumption is through granola bars! Hmmmmm...

My next endeavor- peanut butters granola bars AND 2nd attempt at granola (first one was a bit dark and crunchy).

Recipe: TBA

What I have learned:
Never underestimate the space of lil' munch boxes.
Local/organic travels well ('cept yogurt...ew)
People carry pieces of the desire to eat better...it just takes one of you start that conversation.