Thankfully I keep an emergency stash of soup in a drawer at my desk so I have something to eat should a food emergency surface. (Apparently I keep lots of fun stuff in my desk drawers!)
Foodie Drawer
Also in the drawer: A crap-ton of tea, honey, jelly, hot chocolate, utensils, lady products 😉 and miscellaneous personal papers. Things not in the drawer: peanut butter. I tried this once and the whole jar was gone in three days. Three days. And it wasn’t even specialty flavored peanut butter. I’m a mess.
Around lunchtime today I rummaged through the drawer and selected a can of Progresso chicken barley soup.
Chicken Barley
Bowl o' Soup
Sluuuurp
I also purchased a pack of honey roasted peanuts for $.50 from the little café on the second floor of our building to add some healthy fats and protein to my meal.
Feelin' Nutty
Fat + Protein
Fat: Check! Protein: Check!
This makeshift meal was surprisingly pretty darn good. Drawer food to the rescue!
Before moving on to some giveaway fun, I just wanted to let you know that the Fashion page was updated!
Now let’s get to it.
Funky Monkey Giveaway
As promised, I have a fun giveaway for you guys today! On Tuesday I tried Funky Monkey freeze dried fruit for the first time and loved every sweet, crunchy bite.
Funky Monkey
Along with the delicious flavor and fun texture, I am a big fan of the simple ingredients in the snacks… just freeze dried fruit. That’s it. Win!
Now you have a chance to win a pack of each flavor of Funky Monkey snacks. (You should get seriously psyched for the pineapple guava and apple cinnamon flavors!)
To enter this giveaway, simply comment below with the name of your all-time favorite fruit and your favorite way to enjoy it.
Example: I love bananas and they’re the jam in banana splits!
I will randomly select a winner tomorrow afternoon. GOOD LUCK!
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What a great giveaway!! I love pineapple. And I love eating it grilled (i.e. grilled pineapple with a sprinkle of honey and cinnamon). Hope I win 🙂
Great giveaway Julie. 🙂 Hmm…my fave fruit has to be bananas and I love them cooked into oatmeal with PB on top!
I wish my snack drawer at work was half as organized as yours. It looks like the grocery store threw up in it!
My all-time fave fruit might be apricots. Yep. Apricots.
Ah, my favorite fruit? That’s a hard one! It’s a tie between bananas and juicy watermelon! 🙂
I love bananas! Especially with pb!!!
I love bananas, too! I love them in cereal and making banana bread.
I love strawberries! They’re pretty much great in anything. Especially protein smoothies after a morning run 🙂
I eat a lot of bananas but I would probably say my favorite is watermelon. Bananas with pb, bananas in oatmeal, smoothies…its endless!
All time favourite fresh fruit is apples – doused with cinnamon, raisins, peanut butter/caramel drizzle, and chocolate chips.
But don’t even get me started on dried, unsulfured mango slices!!
I love eating grilled peaches in the summer! Yum!
I seriously love strawberries. I eat them on everything. The best way I enjoy them is to add them to a PB sandwich. Nothing like creamy PB with the sweetness of strawberries.
I love blueberries! I put frozen blueberries on fiber one cereal with almond milk…tastes like ice cream 🙂
Strawberries. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm. I like them in my smoothies mostly, but as well in my yogurt bowls. Oh oh and with my fro-yo. Okay I like them everywhere. Yummy in my tummy.
Strawberries…and I love them on shortcake 🙂
it’s really great to see how you chose your lunch on a whim that didnt include going thru fast food. lol kudos!
In other news, I love peaches and I enjoy them whole during hot summers.
pIneapple! on Hawaiian pizza!!
Yummmmm! I’m so excited about this giveaway, I reeeeaaally want to try those. Umm.. I’d say my favorite fruit are bananas because I eat them the most. But I think apples are my favorite. I’m really picky about which ones I like too 🙂
Yes, I cannot be trusted with an open jar of peanut butter. I would take “just one more spoonful”. Next thing you know, it’s gone!
My favorite fruit would be strawberries, espcially with some angel food cake and REAL whipped cream.
I love raspberries and i love them in yogurt with granola! or straight out of the package!!
LOVE watermelon with a little salt sprinkled on top!
I love apples, dipped in peanut butter!
I love all fruit, but if I HAVE to choose apples and bananas. I love both with peanut butter, especially peanut butter and banana sandwiches!!
Bananas in peanut butter and banana sandwiches!!!!
My favorite fruit is banana…with peanut butter! And honey if I’m feeling extra crazy.
Bananas on Cinnamon Raisin bread with peanut butter! Makes a great, sweet sandwich!
I love dipping apples in peanut butter! So good! Especially when it’s PB & Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams Peanut Butter 🙂
Cherries, just plain simple cherries are my favorite.
My favorite fruit is banana! I love them plain, right after a big run!
I’d love to win! I love apples because they are so versatile. My favorite way to eat them is sprinkled with pumpkin pie spice over a bowl of greek yogurt!
I love strawberries! I normally have them in smoothies…but I looooove chocolate covered strawberries the best.
My favorite fruit is raspberries…picked fresh from my grandpa’s garden and eaten on the spot!
I LOVE bananas. I just like em plain out of the peel. I’m usually in a frantic hurry, and they are so easy to eat on the run!
I love strawberries and there is no way I won’t eat them !
Strawberries… chocolate covered strawberries to be specific 🙂
I am a lover of all fruits, but my favorite is a tie: pomegranate or star fruit! As a little girl, my mom would always try to expand my horizon on food (which I’m so thankful for today because I’m the least picky eater ever!) and she’d always pick out fun and different things to try when we were at the grocery store. Pomegranate and star fruits were a big hit!
I love fresh peaches in the summer!! Just plain…but my Dad has to peel them..for some reason they just taste better when he does it 😉
I love apples – sliced up like my mom used to put in my school lunches!
I love peaches, especially from the red wagon flea market! They are delicious!
I love blueberries…Putting them on a salad or my morning bowl of oatmeal.
I absolutely love apples! I love them plain or with some peanut butter! 🙂
I love apples and they’re even better with some peanut butter!
My all time favorite fruit is green grapes. They are perfect plain.
Oh tough to pick since I love fruit but I would have to say cherries when they are in season. A bag of those don’t stand a chance in my apartment!
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Sorry…slippery keyboard. I love persimmons, as is. 😉
What a super organized drawer! Wow, I am impressed. My desk is a mess!
My fav fruit are green grapes…but I love the mix of green grapes and strawberries. It seriously tastes like a sugary dessert…it’s that good!
Bananas are, hands down, my most frequently eaten fruit BUT blueberries are my love. I eat them fresh out of the carton (by the carton), no toppings or preparation involved!
I love bananas and will eat them anyway I can! warm in oatmeal, cold soft serve, banana muffins, bananas foster ice cream….haha you get the point!
Favorite way is probably with cinnamon and strawberries in oatmeal though 🙂
I think I’d have to say apricots. Jam, dried, or plain, I’ll take it any way I can get it.
I love strawberrys all gooey in or on top of pancakes!
Apples ! i really like dried apples or warmed apples with cinnamon!!