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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Granny Smith Apples 🙂
They are GREAT with peanut butter, which is a major bonus.
apples, mixed with greek yogurt 🙂
My fave has to be apples.. Apple pie, fresh apples with pb, apple dumplings, apple anything COME TO MAMA!!! LOL BUT. my fave is apple crisp!!:)
I actually saw these in the grocery store the other day.
My favorite is banana. I split it down the middle and slop on some almond butter or sunflower seed butter and put the other half back on again. It’s so good!
I love any kind of berries, plain!
My favorite fruit is pineapple! I could LIVE on pineapple. My favorite way to eat it is mixed with yogurt, or in a smoothie!
strawberries, dipped in nutella!
I love apples–sliced thin with a sprinkle of cinnamon!
I do love my apples(I’m boring I know):) buuuuuut there is nothing more delicious than nutella and peanut butter on a banana
I love canned peaches mixed together with cottage cheese! mmmm
Golden Delicious Apples and I love eating them with Crunchy Chunky Peanut Butter or in Apple Pie!
I love all types of berries! blueberries, strawberries, raspberries…you name it!
…oops! forgot to say that i love them in yogurt and ice cream! or inside a pie!
Strawberries! I love them in smoothies mixed w/ skim milk, yog, wheat germ, banana, and protein powder.
Easily bananas and I love eating them in oatmeal of course with some peanut butter mixed in! So good 😀
I am completely obsessed with apples. I swear half of every paycheck goes towards apples. It’s bad.
As for my favorite way to eat them…well…besides in Apple Pie 🙂 I’m a fan of cutting a refrigerated apple into teeny tiny thin slices so it takes me forever to eat it!
i looooove raspberries and the best way i’ve had them is fresh raspberries in a hot caramel sauce!
Kumquats – picked fresh off the tree. Great frozen too. Taste just like a sweet tart candy…… yum!!
I love blueberries mixed into my morning Greek yogurt with a little bit of honey and nuts. So yummy!
my desk drawer looks …. exactly the same ! soup, tea, honey, condiments, untensils . gotta love the extra deep drawers. cube life.
I love apples with peanut butter. That’s really cliched, but it’s true!!
I can’t pick just one favorite fruit! It’s like picking a favorite child. Fresh cherries: straight off the stem. Cold watermelon: after a long run. Mango: on top of my sushi (or frozen in my vodka soda). Strawberries: on top of waffles with whipped cream and syrup. Blueberries: in my smoothie. Bananas: smothered in peanut butter. Okay, I’m done!
Fun stuff!! I love apples but lately i’ve really been digging the pineapple. I mostly like my fruit naked but one day I definitely want to try GRILLED pineapple. It’d be so good with some vanilla fro yo i bet
Such a hard question! Raspberries, strawberries, really any berry all by themselves or in smoothies. But right now I’d have to say NECTARINES straight from the farmer’s market because I’m really missing summer fruits right now.
I love grapes mixed in plain yogurt.
I love bananas in peanut butter and nanner sandwiches!
Raspberries! Especially in muffins!
My favorite fruit varies, but right now I’m really loving apples. My go-to way to eat them is to dice them up in a bowl of Three Sisters Apple and Cinnamon oatmeal with nutmeg and a big spoonful of PB&Co.’s Maple Peanut Butter! So good!
Apples are my favorite… big, juicy Fuji apples. I love them just cut up in slices.. or when I can’t wait, I just take big bites!
One of my favorite fruits is watermelon. It’s great cut up and mixed with fresh basil and feta cheese in the summer time 🙂
My favorite fruit is raspberries and my favorite way to eat them is simply by cramming as many into my mouth as I can 🙂
Hi Julie!
I LOVE pineapple. I love it plain, cut up in chunks! So juicy and yummy!!!
I love Watermelon…on a hot summer day, on the lake! Or if it’s spike 😉
My favorite fruit is watermelon… as soon as I get it I cut it up and I put it in the fridge to get really cold. Then I eat the whole thing in one sitting. 🙂
Navel oranges. They have to be ice cold straight from the fridge.
Watermelon! In little triangles while on the lake 🙂
Grapes, raspberries, granny smith apples…. on their own. So delicious…
POMEGRANATE! I can spend hours eating one and it always looks like a murder scene when I’m done.
I love mango, and I just eat it plain, sliced up. Funny story: the first time I tried a mango, I had no idea how to eat it, so I bit into the flesh like an apple. Bad mistake…
How clever it is to keep good, wholesome food in your drawer at work. And I would eat the pb if I left it in there too 😉
As far as fruit goes, I LOVE to munch on fresh pineapple pieces. Once I figured out that cutting it wasn’t so intimidating, I’ve enjoyed eating it much more often!
My all-time favorite fruit…well, I have 2. I love peaches and cherries. In the summer, I eat them all of the time and in a million different ways. I especially love cherries in chicken salad.
PASSIONFRUIT! Sliced in half, scooped out with a spoon, while lying on a tropical beach 😉
I love fresh pineapple! I love just to get it plain, fresh, and cold! So good : )
i love apples! especially in the fall, freshly picked from the orchard trees! (then made into apple crisp, apple pie, apple butter… 😉 )
Clementines. Usually on their own, 2-3 at a time!
It’s a tie between strawberries and bananas (which is a GREAT combo as well). Just depends on what kind of mood I’m in. Absolutely love strawberry shortcake or just a banana with peanut butter.
I LOVE bananas, sliced down the middle with some chocolate chips in them, microwaved for 20 seconds. So darn good!
I love apples smothered in Peanut Butter or Greek Yogurt…you could probably top any fruit with those 2 toppings and it would be the bomb – for real. 🙂
I love Strawberries! My favorite way to eat them is as is! But I also love them dipped in chocolate!
I love banana wheels and peanut butter made into little sandwiches with cinnamon graham crackers! Delish!
LOVE strawberries and pineapple in cottage cheese.