The chef recommends

For a lot of reasons (none of them interesting), we seem to have gotten behind in our grocery* shopping lately. This has led to some extremely, um, entrepreneurial meals that I might someday fashion into a cautionary tale to frighten small children. For now, I give you this:

Selections from The Billy Goat Recommends, A Cookbook

Reduced-fat wheat thins with low-fat cottage cheese and Pace triple pepper salsa

Popcorn with a bowl of warm pasta sauce

Fuji apple slices with cream cheese and raw walnuts

One small container of hummus eaten with a fork

Fancy blue cheese from the farmers market spread on dried pear slices that technically belong to the guy you are sub-letting from but he probably won't notice, right?

Whipped cream stirred into coffee in place of milk

And on your last day in the office of your now-former employer, I suggest eating nothing but handful after handful of peanut M&Ms all day.


*Pronounced "gro-shree"