With my job in Fort Worth, I have to be there at 8:30am. So, with an hour commute, I have to leave at 7:30am. That’s a bit of a bummer in itself, but I have a conundrum about breakfast in particular.
With other jobs with a lesser commute, I could eat breakfast at 9:00 or 9:30. And, that would mean that my next meal (lunch) would only be about 3 hours away. However, if I eat breakfast at 7:30am (just before I leave), that means that my next meal is up to 5 hours away :(. So, I end up ravenously hungry by the time lunch rolls around.
Sure, I could just eat lunch earlier, but that would only increase the time between lunch and dinner (and I would end up ravenously hungry before dinner instead). So, I was thinking that I could make some type of “portable sandwich” so that I could eat it during my commute. That way, I could eat breakfast at least marginally later.
However, I don’t want just a regular sandwich, as I wouldn’t want any tuna or mayo to fall out and mess up my work-clothes. So, I was thinking that some kind of pouch would be convenient. I could use a Ziploc sandwich-baggie, but that would only mean extra trash that I would have to remember to take out of my car. Pita bread came to mind as well, as that would allow me to “eat the container&rdquo. But, I didn’t see any pita bread at Super Target when I went to look for some yesterday — perhaps another store might have some?
In the mean time, I’ve been trying to create a pouch out of a rolled tortilla. I have a stack of tortillas from Sam’s Club that are about 8" in diameter each. So, I take a tortilla and roll it into somewhat of a cone-shape and then fold over the pointy-end of the cone to crimp it. And, it kinda works. However, maybe it’s just the particular tortillas that I have but the tortilla keeps tearing along the crease-lines of the crimp :-/. So, to counteract a tortilla-rupture, I end up wrapping the tortilla-cone in a paper towel — which somewhat defeats the purpose of the tortilla since I still have to remember to throw away the paper towel…