What are you eating today?

[LutherMan]

Good for you thess. God's Blessings!

[thessarabian]

Has anyone had the new "healthier" pop tarts? I bought a box but I'm a little scared to try them.

[LutherMan]

Healthy pop-tarts? I'd rather eat the cardboard box.

[GreyBeard]

We actually cover much of the catechism in Sunday School, so it's not entirely new when they get to Confirmation. But my experience has been that prior to 8th grade, they are generally not mature enough to engage some of the topics of Law & Gospel I want to address through Confirmation.

[LutherMan]

Fair enough Pr. G. The kids these days are not like we were in the olden days...

[GreyBeard]

Pietist.

Thanks for the complement!

[ValS]

Has anyone had the new "healthier" pop tarts? I bought a box but I'm a little scared to try them.

Yes. I've had the chocolate and the cinnamon. Not great. Pretty grainy. And I had a hunk of icing on one of them that could've broken a tooth.

[LutherMan]

I just ate cold pizza for breakfast

[pstrmry]

1 piece of toast w/ fat-free cream cheese & jam. Too much coffee. This is my Lenten breakfast, except for Fridays when we have Rotary (7 a.m.) at a Mexican food restaurant, and Sundays when I have peanut butter on my toast.

I am already trying to think what to have for lunch.

[LutherMan]

That must not have been a very satiating breakfast if you are already pondering lunch.

I just put two frozen ham-hocks in a pot to boil and have some lentils to make a pot of soup from. I think a diced onion will be all I add, maybe some summer savory for seasoning. I have a loaf of roasted garlic bread from Whole Foods to go with it.

[pstrmry]

LM --- have you been raiding ValS's emoticon stash??
Part of the reason I am pondering lunch is because I am going to a meeting today and wish to bring lunch for the group. Cost, timing and misc. dietary requirements of the folks I think might be there are all a factor.

[LutherMan]

Got my own emoticon stash.
My pastor never deals with getting the food, he always leaves it up to others.

[GreyBeard]

I'm still contemplating breakfast after sleeping till 9:30 on my day off. I'm thinking of placing a pat of butter and three eggs into a frypan and consuming it with a big bowl of milk and cereal, most likely a mix of Corn Chex, Honeycomb, and Fruity Pebbles. And when I say a bowl of cereal, I'm talking about my 1 quart corning ware mixing bowl.

[LutherMan]

I will forever associate lentils as Lenten Food. When I was a little boy, about five or six years old my pastor's wife made a pot of Lentil Soup and served it to her Sunday School class before Wednesday Midweek Lenten Vespers. She proceeded to read us the story of Jacob & Esau when Esau came in from the fields and was famished, and sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of lentil pottage. The word lentil also sounded much like lenten to my immature brain.

Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

I still don't understand why we had Sunday School before Lenten Midweek back in those days, but I did enjoy my first exposure to lentil soup and love it to this day. It was very exciting for me to be eating the same Biblical food that the stern patriarchs of the OT had partaken from.

My soup is an evolving work in progress. I had four tomatoes on the vines that needed to be used so I diced them and tossed 'em in with the hocks. I also found a ziplock bag of roasted vegetables (red peppers, asparagus, carrots, green beans, red onion & grape tomatoes) in the fridge. I will chop them and add to the pot as I add the lentils and diced white onion. I added a few heaping tablespoons of summer savory. Smells very friendly in the house.

[pstrmry]

Got my own emoticon stash.
My pastor never deals with getting the food, he always leaves it up to others.

Don't get too jealous -- this is a group of clergy. we take turns. "the others" tend to do all the work at church. With the exception of Shrove Tues. Breakfast, which I happily organize, shop & cook for.