I feel like I’m back in high school today.
First, I’m at my parents’ house, studying at the kitchen table.
Second, I had a very high school-esque lunch.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich + Yogurt + Fruit
It was back to basics with this lunch!
As I was studying for my personal training certification this morning, I stumbled upon some information that was rather familiar to me.
Drugs!
In my previous job, I worked as the content team manager for a large website and wrote about medications every day. Oh beta-blockers and nitrates, how I’ve missed you! After working my way through a few chapters saturated with science terminology that was rather intimidating, it felt nice to read about medications today and feel like I was in familiar territory. Who knew reading about the classifications of medications would excite me?
I initially planned to drive back to Ocala after publishing my morning blog post, but my plans changed following a little miscommunication with my dentist office. I’m glad I packed my study materials!
I thought my dentist appointment this morning included a check up on a filling that was causing me some pain and my biannual cleaning, but apparently the cleaning wasn’t on the books. After I left the dentist this morning, I got a call informing me that an appointment for a cleaning opened up late this afternoon.
Back to the dentist, I go! The dentist two times in one day? Lucky girl, right here. 
Question of the Afternoon
- What did a typical lunch look like for you in high school?
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i love that you put a crap load of peanut butter on your pbjs! that is the only way!
it’s the best part! 😀
“that is the only way!”
AMEN! 🙂
LOL. i was going to say, wow you sure don’t mess around when it comes to PB&J! delicious 🙂
My typical high school lunch was usually a turkey sandwich and pretzels with either a snapple or Arizona iced tea! On Fridays I would hit up the cafeteria though for some killer chicken fingers! ;).
I freakin’ hate the dentist. You’re about the bravest person in the world to me right now.
HS lunch was usually a ham or turkey & cheese sandwich with an iced tea “drink box”. Except on Friday’s when the school ordered out for pizza! My Dad made the BEST sandwiches. We went to a concert this weekend and he made some sandwiches for us. SCORE!
Some days it was 3 for $1.00 chocolate chip cookies, some were turkey and cheese subs, and during senior year it was Wendy’s bacon cheeseburgers. Thank goodness for being in sports and having a young-person’s metabolism! 😉
This post made me want a PB sandwich I normally am not a big fan of Jelly, and plus you put SOOO much PB on it I’m like drooling at my computer! 🙂 I feel the same way about the medical terminology and the drug classification sytems I am so excited to read anything medical related because I am so excited to head back to school this fall such a nerd I know! 😉
You are so good about going to the dentist! I worked for one for 8 years…and beside having my boss check my xrays every so often I haven’t had a for real cleaning in…. lets just say a very long time…
Always be prepared! Haha! Your lunch looks yummy! I had lots of PBJ days, but usually I’d have some kind of turkey sandwich, grapes, carrots, goldfish, things like that. My dad always packed my lunch for me and he sent me to school with so much food! He would always fill the ziplock bags all the way up no matter what it was he was putting in them. It was awesome. I would just snack on everything throughout the whole entire day.
Wow! 2 times to the dentist–soooo lucky 😉 hah.
I love studying medical terms–I am odd, I know.
My typical lunch in HS was tuna fish sandwich and fruit and carrots. Kinda boring but delicious!
In HS I would eat pizza hut breaksticks at lunch. They were amazing and now I want some! 🙂
It’s a very Indian thing to eat full on meals for lunch ie not sandwiches. So lunch for me would sometimes even be rice and curry or pasta!
we have a Thai place in my hometown and I am in love with eating curry!!! 🙂 It is so delicious!!!
i always had a turkey sandwich with mustard and pretzels and some fruit!
My typical lunch in high school looked a lot like yours. I always packed a sandwich (either peanut butter [no jelly] or turkey), some sort of fruit, something salty (usually pretzels), and something sweet (pudding, teddy grahams, gushers [I loved when my Dad bought these, such a special treat haha], or a granola bar). I’m such a creature of habit…thank goodness I learned that there are many more and better options for lunch!
Good luck with your second dentist visit!
Ah, I hate when I mix up my appointments like that! I was homeschooled, so my high school lunches were anything but ordinary–I had full access to a stove and oven 😀
I love the dentist! I love getting my teeth cleaned (everyone thinks its weird). A typical lunch for me was peanut butter sandwich, apple, yogurt or pretzels. I often ate a mustard and cheese sandwich too, I was a vegetarian most of high school so those were my go to’s.
Two dentist appts in one day? that sounds like my nightmare!
There is nothing like good ole PBJ. It is the best! Now the dentist, not so much…
I hate the dentist! I have a hard enough time making myself go there let alone go twice in one day. You are brave!
I would always have peanut butter and jelly with my crusts cut off. I hate that part of the bread. I’d usually bring yogurt or pudding and some other kind of snack.
omg I”ve been cravinggg a PB&J!!! When I was in high school (I used to eat meat) so it was always a tuna sandwich with crackers and some fruit.. usually clementines.
Man oh man, two dentist appointments in one day? I’m just dying of jealously over here…haha.
I’m pretty sure I ate the exact same thing for lunch almost every day in high school: turkey sandwich, apple, and whatever baked good Mom had most recently made (almost always bar cookies, but occasionally brownies). And for mid-morning snack: tortilla chips. Every. Single. Day. Let me tell you, I was quite the adventurer in high school! Hahaha.
it’s good you have such a flexible schedule to go! I hope to find a career like that… I better get crackin’
Nothing like a good PB sandwich!!!
I had some seriously disordered eating in high school, so if I ate lunch it was a granola bar, or an apple. I love me some PB&J now though!
I ate a giant soft pretzel with cheese, a pkg of mumbos and a bottle of mountain dew almost every single day for lunch. Totally counts as pre-soccer practice fuel, right?
1. Your posts today are cracking me up!
2. I love that you get so excited to go to the dentist…Im currently in dental school and its so awesome when I have a patient who actually likes to come see me!!! If your ever in Wisconsin and need a dentist let me know 🙂
I used to buy lunch at school every day. Now, I work as a teacher at the same high school I attended & just the sight of the food makes me sick! I must have had a stomach of steel back in those days!
Sometimes I bought lunch at school (if they were having taco salads or mexican pizzas), sometimes I took my lunch (usually some sort of sandwich with a Breakstone cottage cheese cup & chips or pretzels). A peanut butter sandwich was often involved, but not with jelly. I liked PB & butter or PB & honey 🙂
In high school, I am pretty sure I ate almost the same lunch every single day: turkey sandwich, an apple (or pear), goldfish crackers, baby carrots. I also packed a banana and some plain Cheerios that I would eat during one of my morning classes.
Heavy on the PB and Jam, smeared right to the edges! It is an art.
Uhh, my high school lunches were awful.
Either non-existent, a giant muffin from the bakery at the grocery store, or a Tim Horton’s bagel.
Once in a blue moon, I’d actually get a turkey or a ham sandwich.
Good thing I know so much better now!
Oh to be in high school again! I ate fairly healthy, usually a ham and cheese sandwich with some yogurt and fruit.
high school lunch?
Are you ready for this…?
Wendys frosty and fries. I dipped the fries in the frosty! hows that for nutritional..
Breakfast was a sprite and 2 brown sugar pop tarts.
no joke. i was a healthy thing wasn’t I?
Aww, that stinks about the miscommunication with your dentist, but at least you got it all done in a day!
Just out of curiousity… how many tbsp of PB do you put on your sandwich? It look amazing!!!!
Pizza hut, subway and chic fil a. They had little carts at our school! Hmmm that sounds spoiled!
Oh what a great lunch! When I was in high school we had off campus lunch and I lived every close to my high school. I would usually go home every day to eat (once I had a car) and the best part was my Dad worked from home so it would eat together. It kind of became out little tradition. I know most people don’t think eating lunch with their dad everyday would have been a high school kids first choice but I loved getting those extra few minutes of just me and dad time. My mom was at work and my brother was at school so it was just the two of us and I loved it.
I’ve never been a PB&J fan 🙁 My freshman and soft more years of high school I dined mainly on Cheez-its and chocolate milk sold at the snack counter. Junior year I decided I was done with that and started buying lunch in the cafeteria every day. Some of that stuff was tasty!
Back to basics with the lunch, but boy it looks so good! Hope you enjoy Gone Girl–it sounds so interesting. I’m still in high school…but usually it’s a ham and cheese sandwich with crackers or fruit! Hoping to mix it up more this year and being more creative 🙂
When you mentioned your previous job, I had a thought that I would love to know what you think, 1 year later, about working for a company vs working for yourself/at home. I’m sure there are ups and downs to both but I’d love to hear your insights!
Hahaha this is so embarassing but almost every day I ate Special K with red berries and a kudos bar (yeah, those poor excuses for granola bars!!) that’s so bad!!
The kitchen table was my favorite study location in HS!
Lunch for me in HS was always a turkey and cheese sandwich on a bagel, plus a chewy granola bar or cookies!
I ate a LOT less healthy in high school, but it was usually the school lunch.
Sometimes I like going back to my parents house and watching TV. Brings back good memories.
Ugh, I’m embarrassed to say that McDonald’s was a typical lunch for me in high school. Once one of us got our license, it was McDonald’s everyday, sometimes twice a day! Otherwise, cafeteria french fries! lol Gawd, I wish I had know about eating clean and healthy 10 years ago :/
I will never grow out of PB and Jelly! Never gets old 🙂 I used to have tuna fish sandwiches on white bread EVERY day. I am not a huge fan of tuna sandwiches anymore!
back in high school I loved the baked potato bar. I got it with the melty cheese and then I’d have one of those snicker bar ice creams or chocolate chip cookies. I wasn’t very healthy back then.
I’m currently in a Ph.D. program for molecular pharmacology. I went to take a break from studying for a big upcoming exam only to see a post about all of the drugs I am studying! I’ll be dreaming about B-blockers, ACE inhibitors, diuretics, calcium channel blockers and potassium channel activators. Good luck with your studies!
Yum! I love PB&J! It is definitely one of the best sandwiches in the world, and I feel like you can eat it any time of day – breakfast, lunch or dinner!
When I was in high school, my parents ordered pizza for dinner every Friday night, so during the week, I would eat it leftover all week for lunch. Every once in a while, I would buy something, but it was pretty much leftover pizza every day, all week!
I was pretty lucky with lunches in high school. My mom would make me a deli-style sandwich on a fresh baguette with sliced turkey, havarti cheese, and pesto mayonnaise. So good, I actually miss my brown-bagged lunches!!
About the same, onLy difference was that normally I had an apple and if I was lucky (which wasn’t too often) I would get PRETZELS!!! Other times I got carrots lol I was very lucky, Mother created a health nut and didn’t even know what she was doing at the time 🙂 So I guess I should be saying Thanks mom 🙂