Blandness the Legend Continues...

Meal: lunch (Fri 10/29)
From: my fridge
Cost: nominal
Location: my kitchen

Another crappy turkey and cheese sandwich, kind of. I decided to try to spice things up, literally, by adding some sriracha sauce, along with some olive oil mayonnaise.  And I made it a triple decker for good measure.

Wholewheat bread as usual.

I added a granola bar to ensure my hunger was adequately satisfied.

Taste: the taste level was actually acceptable.

Conclusion: it could have been worse.

Drink: office water cooler water (Deer Park)

Modified Lunch

Meal: lunch (Tue 9/14)
From: my fridge
Cost: minimal (only paid for the bread in this case, less than $2 for the loaf)
Location: my kitchen

Based on yesterday's lunch I took my friend's suggestion and mixed sriracha sauce with mayonnaise before spreading it on the bread for my sandwich. Of course I had to toast the wholewheat bread I used for my sandwich again (due to fridge induced moisture), but this time I decided to leave it in a little longer to give it a nice browning.

Additional ingredients: 2 slices of cheddar cheese, 6 slices of turkey, 2 large pieces of iceberg lettuce.

Taste: absolutely delicious!
Conclusion: I was very happy with how the sandwich turned out, now I need to think of something for tomorrow.

Drink: a cold can of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Same lunch with a twist.

Meal: lunch (Mon 9/13)
From: my fridge
Cost: cost to me less than $1
Location: my kitchen

After a relatively expensive weekend (notwithstanding the 20 pairs of Hanes brand socks I purchased for $0.50), I needed to go back to my money saving roots. Another cheese and cold cut sandwich was in my future. I found some lettuce in my fridge, to make the sandwich a little "healthier" and I poured on sriracha sauce to give it some kick/favor, and maybe even burn off some taste buds so I could not taste the usual blandness. Thanks to a Costco run on Thursday I had some more cheese options than normal. I decided to go with swiss cheese, I was sick of yellow American cheese, the the exact opposite (white cheese with holes created by a neutral nation vs. yellow cheese without holes created by a "not so neutral" nation) would hopefully be a nice change.

Ample amounts of sriracha (chili) sauce.

(As I usually do, I lightly toasted the bread to eliminate all fridge induced moisture.)

Swiss Cheese Please!

The Finished Product

Taste: it was pretty good, the lettuce some how made it a different sandwich that I have been eating in the last few weeks.

Conclusion: next time I need to put less sriracha sauce, or cut it with something, as my mouth was burning for several minutes afterwards. But the sandwich taste good, we will see if I get heart burn later.

Drink: a nice cold can of Coke Zero.

Yes, I do have a snap on top to keep in the fizzy...

Ham and Cheese w/ Sriracha?

Meal: lunch (Thu 9/9)
From: my fridge
Cost: less than $2
Location: my kitchen

I am really trying to save money right now, at least until the end of the month. Therefore, today was yet another sandwich from home day. Yesterday I had a ham and cheese sandwich... today I was going to have another, but I wanted to change it up a bit. A friend suggested I try putting Sriracha (chili hot sauce) instead of mustard. To be on the safe side I put Sriracha on one side and good old light mayonnaise on the other. As usual I lightly toasted the bread to get out the moister accumulated from being stored in the fridge. I then added two slices of American cheese and put ample amounts of ham.

My Sandwich

Materials
-Boiled Ham (Target house brand)
-American Cheese (Kraft "Singles")
-Wholewheat Bread (Arnold's "Soft")
-Light Mayonnaise (Hellman's)
-Sriracha (Huy Fong)

Taste: not bad, not bad at all. The Sriracha gives it a nice kick to change the flavor and make it less bland, although the texture remains the same as my sandwich from yesterday.
Conclusion: Sriracha is an easy way to make my sandwiches not taste all the same.


Drink: a nice cold can of Coke Zero.