Lunch Diaries

I was wondering what ppl would like to read/see here. Irrelevant = Boring. Considering that I'm v prone to skimming through long travel posts, I think the same thing applies when ppl read my blog. Especially since I seem to have lost my ability to be concise hahaha. And then I realised, my life here is not all about travel (I'm not a tourist) or work (I'm not an employee) or study (school hasn't even started). I actually live here for now, so why not talk about everyday occurrences?

So let's talk about food ;) 7 weeks have flown by and away, but this week I decided to start documenting our daily lunch packages. Our usual: 1-meat-1-veg with rice (sometimes pasta). I think by the end of this post, you'll realise how precious food from the 家乡 is xD
 

Mon, 28th July

I must apologise for the badly taken photo coz the idea only came to me on this day at lunchtime in the office. This is my usual container, the other photos taken are of D's. Yes, I have a small stomach and eat a minuscule amount of rice. All prices represent 1 serving.

Veg: 1/12 Purple cabbage - £0.077 (£0.69/kg)
Stir-fried.

Meat: 1 Pork shoulder steak - £0.67
Pan-fried.

Total: £0.747 ~ S$1.56

Tues, 29th July

Fish is a rare treat.

Veg: 1/3 Broccoli - £0.23
Stir-fried.
 
Fish: 4/3 Salmon fillet - £1.67
Pan-fried with onions.

Total: £1.90 ~ S$3.99

Wed, 30th July

Veg: Greens [yes, its just called that] - £0.33
Stir-fried.
 
Meat - 8/3 Pork sausages - £0.47
Pan-fried.

Total: £0.80 ~ S$1.68

Thurs, 31st July

Veg: 1/6 Sweetheart [yes really] cabbage - £0.115
Stir-fried.
 
Meat: Pork mince - £0.67
Pan-fried with piri-piri sauce and tomato-chilli puree among other things.

Total: £0.785 ~ S$1.65   

  






Fri, 1st August

Veg: 1/12 Cabbage - £0.074 
Stir-fried.
 
Meat: Diced turkey thigh -
£1.17
Pan-fried with 2 eggs (£1.35 for 15) and (not evident from the photo) cereal prawn mix.

Total: £1.424 ~ S$2.99







 
Total lunch cost for one person this week: S$11.87. Wow.

 Now that I think about it...

1. it's really not too bad. I'm the smallest eater out of us so this is sufficient-ish. Mathematically obviously 1-1 will always lack the variety of 2-1 so yea, appreciate the cai fan my friends ;)
2. we've been really lazy with our veg. When I simply say stir-fried it means stir-fried with salt, which on hindsight we seem to have done for this whole week. No wonder we seem to be eating the same thing day in day out.
3. I'm not sure why the meat is in the middle for today's package. (I do the packing for us every morning, we generally have our "specialties")
4. we can afford to treat ourselves better/more? But I shall reserve judgement till we've examined dinner ;)

It was highly amusing doing this post, convenient to have receipts handy as well haha. So this is what we're eating and have been eating every workday, and it's fine for me. And I had fun, so I think the last 35 lunches in RR will appear here in their time ^^