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No Side Dish?!

This is random, but today I had a tuna sandwich for lunch. Not that anyone cares about what I had for lunch, really, but there it is.

The weird thing, though, is that I have always thought there had to be a side dish with sandwiches, I have even eaten chips I do not enjoy because there weren't any veggies or fruits around for me to eat alongside my delicious sandwich. (Chips aren't my weakness, I do enjoy soda, but those 2 items are usually the easiest for me to give up when I am deciding to set certain treats aside).

Do you know what though? I am not stuffed, I am not still hungry, and I am totally satisfied with just having had that tuna sandwich for lunch. I have some sandwiches prepped for myself and hubby for quick grabs at lunch, and when I came home from working out and running errands today, I grabbed that tuna sandwich and enjoyed my grub. It did not have to be a 3 course meal, there did not need to be something sweat that followed it, a simple sandwich was enough to content me.

Who knew?!

On a separate note regarding sweets, did you know you don't need a bowl of popcorn and chocolate candy in order to enjoy a relaxing movie night on the couch? A boiled artichoke is actually less work to snack on (especially while dealing with braces!) XD

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