life | lunch

At 12:00 noon, although the computer work system showed that there are still many reporters' manuscripts coming in, I still decided to have lunch first. What is more important than eating?

Open the bento prepared by my mother, there are no surprising decorations and delicacies. It is two dishes with white rice, and today is two vegetarian chicken legs, which is made of several circles of bean wrap and a small wooden stick. It looks like a chicken leg. Another dish is milk cabbage.

Before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, I had no food for a long time at noon! Of course, this is not because my mother abused me or lost weight, but because of my own laziness and habit.

After graduation, I worked in a vegetable wholesaler and a toy wholesaler. Because of the heavy workload, I would have lunch in the afternoon, otherwise I would not have the energy to work. When I worked in the toy wholesaler, I ate the lunch my mother prepared for me.

After that, I started working in a newspaper office. Since it was not a manual job, I decided not to make my mother so troublesome, so I didn't bring a lunch box. Moreover, the two newspaper offices I work for are located in relatively remote industrial areas, and I am a vegetarian. There is no reason for the company’s restaurant to sell vegetarian food. If I want to go out for lunch, I have to drive. I am lazy and don’t want to go out. I don't even eat lunch. When my colleague asked me, I said I was losing weight.

I eat a little more breakfast every day, hoping to keep my stomach in until the evening. If I am really hungry, I will go to the restaurant to see if there are pastries to eat, or order toasted toast or two boiled eggs to eat. But it's just that you don't have to eat dinner, you can't eat a hundred rice!

But there is still a chance to have lunch, once a week, that is to go out to eat with the director. But for a long time, there should be five or six years without lunch, just a cup of coffee. The strange thing is that I don't feel hungry and I don't lose weight! The nutritionist said that if the three meals are not normal, there will be problems in the body. I have a lot of problems, that is, I eat less, but I am more fat.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, my sister sometimes helped her mother prepare brunch at home because she was unable to go to work. In addition, she also had health problems, so she began to pay attention to the food she eats, which should be less oil, less salt and less sugar. When I eat pickled food, I only eat the food prepared by my mother during the time of conditioning my body.

From that time to the present for more than two years, I can eat bento again when I go to work, and finally have lunch again!

Mom is actually very busy in the morning. She wakes up at 6 am to prepare breakfast and lunch for my sister and I. Because my sister is sensitive to beans, she always eats the food prepared by her family and her mother.

In addition to my father's physical relationship, the three of us will eat slightly different things, so my mother needs to prepare three different foods, so my mother does not have much time to arrange or carefully match the food. The only requirement is that I will eat it. As well as having enough to eat, and most importantly, cook whatever is in the fridge.

Mom often thinks about the troubles before going to bed last night about what to cook today. In particular, I am a picky eater and for health reasons, I do not eat many foods. If I do not eat bitter gourd, in fact, I do not eat anything that tastes bitter. I also need less oil, less salt, less sugar, no frying, no pickling, and less vegetarian food. It is expected that I often get my mother one big and two big, and she is fortunate to suffer.

I never dared to ask for too much. Of course, my mother would not prepare food that I didn't eat, so I could eat whatever my mother prepared for me, as long as I was full, and I would only eat 7 cents per meal.

I am grateful for the bento prepared by my mother. Although it is a simple dish, what I eat is my mother's heart and love.