Day 12

I was all over the map today. I made a standard eggwich for breakfast (opting not to use the egg I dropped on the floor) but I didn't feel like bringing tuna for lunch again and didn't have any better ideas, so I ate in the cafeteria.

They served a type of fish they called "drum", but according to Wikipedia that could be any of a number of different kinds of fish. Whatever it was I thought it was decent at first but by the time I was half way through it I decided I didn't like it at all. The rice was bland too, for that matter.

Fortunately the execs across the hall had lunch catered by Rudys so I had a little turkey, brisket and potato salad instead of the other half of the fish. (I devoured the turkey and half of the brisket before remembering to take a picture, but it was literally only an ounce or two of meat.)

I've been in a training class all week and the instructor brought in Round Rock donuts this morning. I miraculously limited myself to one but had a chocolate chip cookie too (and of course two Healthy Choice fudge bars this evening). I also had a mini Clif bar somewhere along the way.

I made a reasonably healthy and delicious dinner anyway, so that's something. That's a chicken cutlet (chicken from Buddy's), mashed potatoes, and fresh spinach sauteed in evoo and garlic. Yum.

Day 2

I spent the second and third days of the new year with Amtrak, so pardon the blurry pictures.

First, a microwave egg & sausage sammich with coffee on the Ann Arbor > Chicago train. Not much to say about that.

Lunch was fried rice and some kind of sweet and sour type chicken from a stand in Chicago's Union Station.

For dinner I had salmon, rice and green beans on the Chicago > Austin train. I forgot to bring my camera to the dining car, so I ordered the same thing the following night and copied the photo. When I'm in a situation where all the food is likely to have come from a factory farm, I will often choose a fish entree instead of beef or chicken. It's probably not from a sustainable source but at least it was probably wild-caught or raised/killed in a more humane fashion than your average factory-farmed chicken, pig or cow.