#butter lettuce each

[organicdeliverysydney]

Butter Lettuce Each

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[soulsxng]

Send 🔥 for Muse A to attempt roasting Muse B. Orin to Cyrus

@arcxnumvitae | Multimuse grapevine | No longer accepting!

"Whaaaat, I can't do that to Cy, it's like kicking a puppy. Okay, okay, lemme think for a minute...uhhm. Cyrus, you...oh! You eat cereal like a freak. Though you do it with other stuff too, I guess. That whole 'I don't like my food to be soggy' thing. You're weird. Just eat right away instead of dicking around!"

"Th-that's not...that weird..." It was weird, and he knew it. When he eats cereal, he pours the cereal in a bowl, and milk in a separate cup. Then he takes a bite of cereal, sip of milk. Bite of cereal, sip of milk. "It makes me gag when my food is all...mushy when it gets in my mouth, when I'm expecting something crunchy or crispy!"

[bellyasks]

menu for a restaurant that specializes in overstuffing its customers (aka a silly prompt list)

Ask your server about dietary accommodations. Each meal is made to order, substitutions and alternative ingredients are available! All meats may be replaced with plant-based alternatives upon request. (And pick a meal to feed your favorite character--if they can finish it, they get one dessert on the house!)

Breakfast (all orders come with a side of home fries, fresh fruit, or your choice of meat)

Full Stack of Pancakes - Emphasis on "full." Lucky seven big fluffy pancakes, each with a different additive of your choice.

Big Ol' Bagel - A hefty bagel the size of your plate, toasted to order and topped with whatever you'd like.

Ostrich Egg Omelette - Okay, not really, but this omelette is made with two dozen eggs--the equivalent of one ostrich egg--and filled with your choice of meat and veggies.

Loaf of French Toast - A dozen thick slices of French toast topped with whipped cream and fresh berries.

Plus Size Pork Roll - A classic pork roll egg & cheese on our signature giant bagel.

Lunch (all orders come with a side of chips or fries)

Peanut Butter & Jelly Belly - The biggest PB&J you've ever seen, slathered generously on a buttery toasted baguette.

Quadruple Decker Club Sandwich - Your choice of meat with mayo, lettuce, tomato, and bacon, heaped on between four slices of bread.

Piece-A Pizza - This slice is equivalent in size to an entire large pizza and covered with your choice of toppings. Perfect for people who are lying to themselves when they say they'll just have one piece.

Double Footlong - Two feet of classic Italian hoagie on a fresh-baked roll.

Stomach Stretcher - They say eating a head of lettuce is a great way to stretch your stomach out, and that's exactly what this giant salad will do. We bring you the lettuce, you take it to the salad bar and add the rest.

Dinner (all orders come with a side of rice, fries, baked or mashed potato, or a fresh vegetable medley unless marked *)

Sushi Bloat Boat - A sushi boat big enough for a full table, pricey to share but free for any one person who manages to finish it alone.

Box of Pasta - A full 16oz box of pasta (your choice of spaghetti, penne, or linguine) tossed in Alfredo, marinara, or a white wine sauce. Add your choice of meat for an extra $2.

Full Size Fish & Chips* - An entire 10-20lb cod (ask your server about choosing a fish) cleaned, battered, fried, and served with steak fries.

The Whole Farm* - A barbecue variety platter. Pulled pork, brisket, ribs, and chicken breast slathered in our signature sauce, with an ear of corn, baked beans, and coleslaw on the side.

Raised Steak - A 48oz grilled ribeye. Also available as an equivalent weight of seasoned and grilled portobello mushrooms.

Dessert

Paint Can - A creamy and colorful milkshake served in a one gallon paint can. See the ice cream counter for today's available flavors.

Loaf of Bread Pudding - Warm bread pudding made with an entire loaf of bread, topped with an optional scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Root Beer Bloat - A classic float with your choice of ice cream. The twist is that this dessert holds two liters of root beer and a portion of ice cream to match.

Burp-day Cake - A seven-layer slice of chocolate cake guaranteed to be the size of your head or it's free, topped with a thick crust of fizzy Pop Rocks.

Gobbler Cobbler - A pie-sized dish of peach, blueberry, or apple cobbler, topped with three optional scoops of vanilla ice cream.

[swarm-of-polls-in-a-trench-coat]

Wanted to try a fun challenge, so let's build a sandwich! It should have roughly even amounts of ingredients, probably less of the condiments than the other things. And 2 pieces of bread.

Feel free to help each other out in the tags!

[foodfightbrackets]

Picky Eater Disliked Food Bracket

I saw this image going around and decided to open this blog I'd make polls about it!

I'm going to start with this list (minus ranch dressing, because it's pretty much unknown outside the USA), but I'm accepting submissions for more. The winner of each poll will be the most disliked food item.

Current list of contestants: Blue Cheese, Canned Tuna, Chicken, Coffee, Cooked Fish, Crab, Grapes, Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Mustard, Nutella spread, Oysters, Peanut Butter, Raw Fish, Shrimp, Snails (Escargot), Sourdough Bread, Soy Sauce, Tea, Vinegar, Carrots, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Asparagus, Beef, Turkey, pork, Liver, Brussel Sprouts, Dark Chocolate, Garlic, Lettuce, Broccoli, Zucchini, Coconut, Onions, White Chocolate, Tofu, Avocado, Oranges, Grapefruit, Raisins, Strawberries, Apples, Wheat Bread, Celery, Mushrooms, Eggplant, Beets, Watermelon, Cottage Cheese, Pickles, Peas, Pineapple, Bananas, Milk, Olives, Yogurt, Green Beans, Lima Beans, Quinoa, Shrimp, Honey

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Bread Debut: Miitopia

Hey, everyone, look! It's Bread! Did you know? Bread is the best thing since sliced bread. Some of you might argue that Bread is sliced bread but consider: Bread is an enemy in a Video's Game. Can sliced bread say that? I didn't think so.

Bread is one of the very first enemies encountered in Peculia, and from this first encounter, the theme of the world becomes immediately apparent: Funny! Yes the game has been funny up to this point, but this is the Funny world, so they need to show you some especially funny enemies to make that clear. Enter Bread! And also Running Nose, who is also delightful and might get its own post someday.

But not today, Buster! Today is Bread's time to shine! Despite how wacky it is, Bread is a pretty standard enemy. All it can do is float up to you and tackle you. Nary a Special Attack to be seen! But that's okay, I think. Even without any condiments, Bread adds flavor to the game! Unless the eyeballs count as a condiment? Maybe if you're Shrek.

For some reason, the Miitopia Wiki has these descriptions for every enemy that don't exist anywhere in-game and are completely made up. Personally I think we shouldn't be insulting the Darker Lord for using their imagination. I think it was an inspired choice of them to make Bread into an enemy. Some of us would benefit from taking each others' eyes and putting them on random everyday objects to create new and exciting monsters. You know, for perspective. Maybe one of us can even become the living forks in Miitopia 2!

Now, as you're probably aware, Miitopia is an RPG, and every good RPG's bread and butter is introducing Stronger Color Variations. But alas, Miitopia does not have Buttered Bread, nor does it have Wheat Bread, Burnt Bread, or Very Lightly Toasted Bread...

...Because it goes above and beyond!

Meet Ham Sandwich! More than a mere Stronger Color Variation, Ham Sandwich not only gets two slices of grilled bread, but also Ham and Cheese! And lettuce. There's also lettuce.

Unlike Bread, Ham Sandwich does in fact get a Special Attack, called Wide Attack, which as the name implies, is a Wide Attack that can hit three Miis at once.

...Okay, it's not really that special, but is getting attacked by Ham Sandwich not special enough for you already? You gotta savor the occasion.

But remember to make room for dessert! Today's dessert? A Bread Sandwich! This is "Traveler" Bread, which takes the Dugtrio approach of giving us three slices of Bread at once! The more, the merrier, I say! And if that wasn't enough for you, "Traveler" Bread is a BOSS FIGHT!

Traveler Bread takes a page out of Ham Sandwich's book, once again getting the Wide Attack, but unlike Ham Sandwich, it gets TWO turns, meaning it can hit three Miis at twice! And that's it really. A small change to the Bread formula, sure, but it's okay. It's hard to improve upon perfection.

And that's it for the post. BEGONE!

[ediet-the-right-way]

Sharing from my meal plan Notes to those who need ✨

New Plan - Calories

No Snacks Between Meals

No Grazing

Eat without distraction / Mindfully Eat (when kids are asleep, when you don’t have to get up every ten seconds)

Eat One Bit at a time

Chew each bite 20-30x

Start fast at 5pm / 6pm

End fast at 11am/12pm next day if possible

5 hour eating window, 2 meals a day with 1 snack or 3 meals. Plan emergency snack.

Tea Between Meals

Sleep by 7/8p

Avoid Food Noise

Drink tea

Exercise

Make a protein shake with a lot of ice

Take a bath

Shower / do hair

Prep foods for next day using bento boxes.

Eat at the same time every day. don’t destroy a good routine.

Everything you eat at work, eat the same way at home

If doing Low Carb / Keto

Pre: I’ve never had a good run with keto but for those of you who are trying it, follow guidelines below.

Stay under 1100-1000 Calories

Boiled egg with shrimp

BLT Salad from Keto Cook Book (Lettuce in lieu of bread)

Veggie Egg and Cheese Bake

Examples:

Breakfast: Start at 12p: 470

1 cup egg whites - 133

with S/P/Garlic Powder

1 Egg - 70

2 ozFeta - 80

5 Cherry Tomatoes - 17

Sautéed mushroom and Onion - 50

- OR -

Meal: (Keto) 430

6 oz Steak - 240

1 Egg - 70

1oz Feta - 40

15 Spears Asparagus - 60

4 Cherry Tomatoes - 20

Meal: (Keto) - 367

Salmon - 280

Asparagus - 27

Meal 2: 323

2 Cups Salad Greens - 20

1 tbs skinny girl dressing - 5

4 Cherry tomatoes - 20

1 Cup Shredded Chicken - 170

1/4 Avocado - 58

1 oz Feta - 40

Meal:

2 Turkey Roll Ups

Tomato and 1/2 Avocado Salad

1 Egg

2 Sweet Peppers

With cream cheese

- OR -

Meal: 460

Cottage Cheese Flatbread Pizza

* 1 Cup Cottage Cheese - 180

* 2 Eggs - 140

* Mix , Bake at 350 for 40min

* 2 tbs Pizza Sauce - 40

* Mozzarella or Violife Cheese - 100

- OR -

Meal: 352

2 Cups Salad Greens - 20

1 tbs skinny girl dressing - 5

6 Cherry tomatoes - 20

1/2 Cup Shredded Chicken - 85

1/2 Avocado - 100

1oz Feta - 40

1/4 cup Blueberries - 10

1/4 Cup Strawberries - 12

1/2 tbs Dark Chocolate Chips - 50

Pickled Onions - 10

Snack: Protein Shake

* 1 Scoop Protein Powder - 80

* 2 Tbs PB2 - 60

* 1 Cup Almond Milk - 30

* Ice - 0

-OR-

* 1 tbs Peanut Butter - 98

* Smashed Berries - 50

* On Toast (Dave’s Killer Bread) - 60

- OR -

Pick from one:

My ask is always Open if you need meal ideas ✨

[speedlimit15]

my sandwich

sourdough toasted on the outsides only

very light mayo spread

pan fried smashed garlic

oyster mushrooms fried in leftover garlic oil/butter mix

1 leaf lettuce (romaine, wilted)

Some might say this sandwich is too simple to be enjoyed. however, when each ingredient is treated properly with precision and care this "Sinple" sandwich transforms into feast which rivals and in some cases completely overshadows what is available inpopular sandwixh shops today

[madlori]

Dinners with salmon

Hey fam, just felt like sharing some recent dinners. I've been trying to eat more blood-sugar friendly (lots of protein and fiber, complex carbs, fewer refined carbs, etc). Here are a couple of recent dinners.

I'm also on a bit of a salmon kick. I picked up a couple of pre-seasoned filets at Kroger but honestly it's much cheaper to buy plain filets (you can usually get them for about $5 each - Costco had big flats of them, like 8 for about $30, and they freeze well) and season them yourself. You can put just about anything on salmon. Or nothing at all.

On the left, I had an avocado to use up so I made two avocado toasts when I'd normally just eat one. I like avocado toast on Wasa crispbread. I put a very thin schmeer on it of either goat cheese or cream cheese, hummus in a pinch. Then the sliced avocado, drizzled with lemon olive oil with salt and dill on top.

I've also discovered that salmon is super easy and MUCH tastier in the air fryer! I make a little aluminum foil boat for it to ease cleanup. The one on the left is the preseasoned one. The one on the right I did with about a tbsp of melted butter, garlic salt, ground pepper and smoked paprika. Did it for 10 mins at 390 but it needed a couple more, tbh.

And on the right is a bowl of this week's Dense Bean Salad. I make a big container of it on Sundays and eat from it all week. I usually put it over some broccoli slaw, or shredded lettuce, or other greens. This one is chickpeas, black beans, cucumber, red onion, minced green olives, diced ham, chopped salami and edamame with some dill olive oil. When I eat it, I top it off with a little lemon juice, red wine vinegar, lemon olive oil and sometimes feta (I forgot the feta tonight).

Dense Bean Salad is a great thing to keep on hand. You can get really creative with it and the ingredients are cheap especially if you skip the meat ingredients.

[pinkchampagne]

♡ 365 Soft ♡

Pink Champagne's Personal Development Plan

updated december 6, 2024

this is my version of 75 Hard, modified for a realistic approach to long-term personal development and self-improvement. though i was inspired by the structure of 75 Hard, this isn't a short-term challenge. i've organized this plan as a lifestyle blueprint that can be continued for longer than 75 days.

unlike a crash diet or a challenge intended to be started and stopped over and over again, this set of guidelines can be easily implemented into one's life, and here’s why:

i will not lie and say i don't care about physical appearance, but the focus of this strategy is to feel better and improve overall health. my plan explicitly outlines which foods to gravitate towards and which to cut back on. there are no bad foods; this is just what works for me.

crash diets and workout challenges might produce the superficial results you want, but implementing a health strategy that focuses on the big picture is more beneficial in the long run. i’m easing into it, allowing cheat days, and not setting a 75-day timeline. give yourself grace and celebrate your wins.

i love the basic concept and structure of 75 Hard, however, progress pictures are generally most helpful for those who are trying to improve their physical appearance. since this is a long-term plan prioritizing health over appearance, i replaced this section with one on consistency in general, focusing on routines and habits. i also added a self care section because that’s extremely important to me. i will continue updating this post.

with healthy habits comes a healthy body and mind. take care of yourself and you will reap the benefits, mentally and physically.

🫧 DIET

alcohol:

weekends only

never alone

water between drinks

no shots/shooters/bombs etc.

5 drink limit

be mindful of who you're with; do they encourage good habits/behavior?

cut back on the following significantly:

sugar

dairy

carbs

red meat

processed foods

caffeine

exceptions: feta, parmesan, greek yogurt, kefir, mayo, bacon, honey, matcha, celcius

notes:

begin taking marine collagen and chlorophyll for skin and hygiene

increase fruits and veggies: romaine lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers are my focus right now.

increase protein intake: chickpeas, peanut butter, eggs, black beans.

honorable mentions: oats, blueberries, avocado, sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, spinach, kale, white meat, kombucha

🫧 WATER

100 oz a day. i'm purchasing a brita faucet filter and a new water bottle to encourage this goal.

🫧 WORKOUT ROUTINE

mondays, wednesdays, fridays:

30 donkey kicks, each side

30 fire hydrants, each side

3x

tuesdays & thursdays:

30 second plank

30 second side plank, each side

30 crunches

3x

notes:

sometimes i do my ab workout on saturday or sunday as well to get a third one in.

i plan on working cardio and physical therapy exercises into this routine eventually.

i’m thinking of purchasing a home pilates reformer!

🫧 SELF CARE

skin

wash face twice a day + use zit stickers

rhassoul clay/charcoal/honey face masks

sheet masks

actually use my quartz roller

ice roller, gua sha, steamer

red light therapy!!

body

exfoliating body scrub

first aid beauty kp bump eraser for legs

glycolic acid for legs + under arms

pumice stones for feet

misc.

continue getting hair cut every month and a half

be more consistent with brow waxing

get rid of old clothes + build new wardrobe

🫧 KNOWLEDGE AND GROWTH

daily podcast playlist

personal development podcasts & youtube - listen to at least one ep/vid a day

date yourself instead podcast – lyss boss

hail yes podcast

hailey gamba on youtube

thewizardliz on youtube

tam kaur youtube + self obsessed podcast

books - 30 minutes a day

freedom is a constant struggle - angela davis

a people's history of the united states - howard zinn

i'm taking book and podcast recs!

🫧 CONSISTENCY

follow budget

follow morning, evening, bedtime, and weekend routines

meal prep for weekday lunches: couscous salad with chickpeas, feta, sundried tomatoes and white wine vinegar + lemon juice dressing

create & post content every day ♡

[quicktimeeventfull]

god of the fryer

hello all here's (the start of) a death note fast food worker au. you can also read it on dreamwith. cw for abelism & abelist slurs. there is literally no chance whatsoever that i will ever finish or even consider finishing this because working food service at the restaurant this is based on gave me unfixable psychic damage. nonetheless. perhaps you will enjoy this as is.

Light is not above working in a fast food restaurant to put himself through university. He tells himself this mostly because it’s what his father told him, in a slightly exasperated tone, when he’d driven him to work this morning.

“Light,” he’d said, “Plenty of people take on part time jobs to support themselves. You don’t have some special quality which makes you better than them.” Then he’d stopped the car, put on the same wax museum smile he’d used years ago when Sayu was throwing tantrums, and said, “Have a good day at work, son,” in a tone which brokered no argument. 

As of last week, Light doesn’t even live with them anymore. He has his own, terrible little apartment, even though Touhou is easily close enough to bus — his parent’s idea, definitely not his. His father only drove him here today as a last favour. Light feels like he’s being sent to the gallows. He has no idea why this is happening to him.

So here he is, standing in front of what looks like the world’s saddest salad bar but is actually his collection of hamburger toppings while a girl in a backwards baseball cap reads off the menu in a sharp, clipped voice. She is going to be his manager.

“So we’ve got three basic burgers — regular, buttered bun, and regular with an extra bun in the middle.” 

“Like a Big Mac.” 

“Yeah,” she says, blandly, “but calling it that is grounds for instant termination.” 

He stares at her. She sighs. “I’m joking, but still, please don’t call it that. If someone asks for one, just say we have three basic burgers … anyway, we’ve also got a bunch of special edition burgers. There’s a cheat sheet pinned to your station..” She taps a laminated sheet listing a series of increasingly bizarre burger names and the ingredients which go into them. There are six.

Light Yagami, top of his class in every school he’s ever been to, is fairly certain that he does not require a cheat sheet to memorize six hamburgers. 

“All you need to worry about are the toppings, anyway. The guys at the grill will do the patties, and whoever’s on fry will bring you buns. Oh, and anything with mushrooms or fried onions. They’ll do that too. We’ll get you trained on some of that later. It’s honestly pretty simple. You’ll probably fuck some stuff up today, but I’m sure you’ll have it down in a couple of shifts.”

“I won’t fuck anything up,” Light reassures her. She laughs, which he finds offensive.

“Thats the spirit.”

She wanders off towards one of the girls standing next to the grill.

Light exhales slowly. 

The building isn’t as horrible as he was expecting. His vision of the back of a fast food restaurant involves dark, cramped quarters and grease stains on every available surface. In reality, it’s obsessively clean and painted in off whites and a weird salmon colour that isn’t as ugly as it sounds. This makes sense, now that he’s thinking about it — it faces right into the dining area, so the customers can see into it. You can find the grease stains if you look, but they’re mostly around the fry and grill.

His section is shielded by a half wall which he can just barely see over. His toppings (lettuce, onions, tomatoes, pickles, shredded and unshredded cheese, and some strange red and green sauces which he cannot identify) are refrigerated interior of the actual counter, so it’s freezing cold. 

Behind him, everyone is already milling about themselves, talking and nudging each other with a companionability that is equal parts nice to watch and achingly melencholy for reasons he does not with to acknowledge.

He takes his laminated sheet off the counter and scans it. He is very determined to do everything perfectly, especially now that his manager laughed at him for saying that he would. Regardless of what his father said, it’s just hamburgers. He got a perfect score on his entrance exams. He has literally been helping the NPA solve crimes over the dinner table since he was eleven. He can handle this. 

The bell on the front door chimes, and a man in a scrappy white shirt and a hurricane of black hair walks through it, shoulders hunched, and skitters through the dining area, past Light, and towards the break room. Skitters really is the right word for it — he moves like he’s being hunted. 

“God.” The voice comes from behind him. Light flinches, then turns to see his manager beside him, staring at the space where the man had been. “L’s on fry today. Fuck. I told Misa she was absolutely not allowed to switch shifts with him today. I didn’t want to be dealing with him and training someone new.”

There’s a scraping nastiness to her voice which Light does not like. It’s different from the tone she’d sed with him earlier. 

“Is he new, too?” 

She snorts. “Lawliet’s been working here for six months, but he still acts like it’s his first sixteen minutes. Look at it this way, I guess — no matter how badly you do, you’re not going to be the worst one here. He’s kind of a retard.” 

“Oh,” says Light, not sure what to follow that up with. He had not been aware that people said things like that out loud anymore. She seems to mistake this for companionability, and smiles at him. He smiles back, automatically, and she turns and walks away. 

Maybe he should have said something, but it’s his first day, and what is that going to accomplish, really? Keep your head down, he tells himself. It’s just for a little while. If he can figure out whatever the hell his parent’s game is and play it properly, they’ll realize that he doesn’t require whatever lesson they’re trying to teach him and they’ll let him stay at home and eat their food until he graduates and can get an actual job at the NPA which does not involve putting tomatoes on top of lettuce or calling your coworkers retards. 

He stares at his little laminated sheet of six varieties of the exact same food. From the corner of his eye, he can see L scuttling out of the break room, a baseball cam jammed on top of his mass of black hair. He does not join in with everyone’s chatter. 

Someone sprays something on the grill and a cloud of grease rises up towards the ceiling. Not to be dramatic, but he already wants to throw himself into the fryer. 

---

He is a burger god. Of course he is. His manager — her name is Tomoko, and he should probably start remembering things like that — praises him loudly for his formidable talents in memorizing the six recipes and remembering to put the toppings on buns instead of, what, his face. It’s absurdly easy, but they seem impressed for some reason. So that’s neat. 

The less great part is that people absolutely will not stop shouting. They aren’t angry. This just appears to be the only way anyone knows how to communicate. Literally everything — the need to restock the lettuce, the number of french fries L needs to make, whenever L needs to drop a chicken into the fryer — requires shouting. To acknowledge the shouting, the shoutee has to shout back. Light is required to shout at the customers whenever he’s finished bagging their burgers, so he is contributing to the problem. 

The only person who isn’t yelling is L, which makes him Light’s favourite person in the restaurant. Right now, possibly Light’s favourite person in the entire world.

Light absolutely despises unnecessary human noise. Even when he takes his exams, he shows up no more than a minute early, so he doesn’t have to sit through the panicked whispers and incessant rustling of papers and pens which always proceeds them. Between all the yelling and the hiss of the grill and the gurgle of the fryers, he’s just about ready to throw himself directly into the meat grinder. 

Luckily, he has always been excellent at coping in adverse situations. So he makes absolutely perfect hamburgers and wraps them with absolutely perfect folds and pairs them with the perfect number of napkins. If he pays total attention to what he’s doing, he can almost ignore all the sounds. 

He’s focusing well enough that it takes him a while to notice that the number of french fries which appear by his side is almost entirely random. Sometimes there are more than he needs, and sometimes there are less. This actually evens itself else nicely, so it doesn’t occur to him that anything is going wrong until Tomoko touches her hand to one of the bags, then makes an irritated noise deep in her throat. 

“These are cold,” she says, and tosses it with what Light personally thinks is excessive force into the trash can. “Just check before you bag them.” 

She marches off. 

He assembles a Seismic burger (three buns, secret sauce, shredded lettuce, fried onions, and a slice of cheese — and shouts at a customer to take it and its associated heart attack. 

From behind him, he can hear a new voice rising up among the clamour. Light stops what he’s doing for the first time since customers started walking in through the doors.

Tomoko is standing in front of L as he cowers back fro her. He must be tall when he stands up properly, but right now he’s just this tangle of limbs trying to knot and disappear into itself. She’s talking in a voice that’s curled like a fist — quiet, but it carries, and Light can’t help but notice how everyone seems to have paused to listen.

“This is the third time I’ve seen you drop double fries,” she says. “And I know it’s not the first because Yagami���s been bagging them cold.” Light feels a twinge of unfairness. No one told him he was doing anything wrong. “And you missed two orders of chicken. Yuri had to come back and cook them herself. I don’t know why you can’t get this --“

“If everyone would just be a little quieter —“ L starts. One of the guys by the grill cuts him off, abandoning any pretence of not listening. 

“How else do you want anyone to tell you what we need?” His voice is acidic, but L looks at him like he’s just thrown him a life raft. 

You’re misunderstanding, Light wants to tell him, the same way people shout advice to characters on television. He’s not being kind to you. That’s not a real question.

“If you could just talk to me instead —“

“Six months,” Tomoko said. “You’ve been here six months. I’m trying to handle a new trainee — who’s already three times as fast as you, by the way — and you’re screwing up the line. 

Someone drops a set of three buns in front of Light. He looks up, startled, then assembles three sets of cheeseburgers and turns back. 

“I apologize,” L is saying now. He’s actually physically stepping back, as if Tomoko’s going to hit him. From the way his voice is getting lower, more ragged, the way it’s speeding up like he needs to rush to the end before all his words topple over, Light can tell he’s trying not to cry. “It will not happen again.”

“I find that difficult to believe, because it’s already happened three times today and it’s been happening for the entire six months you’ve been here. If you want to keep your position —“

“It’s not going to happen again,” L says, words all in a rush now. He’s blinking quickly. “It will not. I can guarantee —“ 

This is absolutely the stupidest situation that Light has seen in his entire life.

There are many people who look down on adults who cry in public. Light has never been one of them. What he hates is people who look for little cracks of vulnerability and press down on them until they break, then hold their hands with their palms out and act like they had nothing to do with the result. It’s a peculiar kind of cruelty. 

It should be patently obvious to anyone that L is trying his best — if that’s not adequate, they should just fire him instead of batting him around like this. The way they’re talking won’t accomplish anything other than getting him even more upset, which has not once in the history of humankind helped anyone do a better job. It’s bad management, and it’s fucking sad and frankly cruel.

Light thinks of the word retard slipped to him like a gift he didn’t wand and which he’d accepted anyway. He sidesteps Yuri as she drops patties onto his station and strides over to L. 

Light steps between him and Tomoko and clamps his hands down on L’s shoulders. L looks up at him. His eyes are wide and so black they’re disorienting, like the aura of the night where a car’s headlamps drop off, and he looks not just upset but actually terrified. 

But he holds Light’s gaze like it’s a shelter being offered to him.

“Okay,” Light says. “Just look at me, okay? Focus. You’re okay. You’re doing fine.” He isn’t, really. It doesn’t matter. The truth is a malleable thing best tossed away in favour of the information which would be most useful in any given situation. “Do you remember what you were supposed to make?”

“Three orders of fries, two with cheese, and three pieces of chicken tenders,” L says, snapped out in a tidy rhythm. 

“Okay,” Light says, “Make that. One at a time. Don’t worry about all this other stuff. It’s got nothing to do with you.” 

“Yes,” L says. He presses his knuckles to his mouth. He’s swallowing hard. 

“You’ve got this. I know you do. You’re okay?” 

“I’m okay,” L says. He nods, once, as if to prove it. That’s why Light asked him — if you can get people to say something about themselves, most of the time they’ll end up believing it.

Light smiles at him. “Then go on.” He squeezes L’s shoulders, grabs one of the fries, and turns away. 

Everyone is staring at him. He finishes his three burgers, wraps them up, and sets them on the counter. “Customer thirty-eight!”

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“You’re a miracle worker,” Tomoko whispers to him when three hours have gone past and there haven’t been any errors. He smiles at her. He doesn’t think it’s such a miracle — all he did was decide not to treat someone like dirt. 

His miracle lasts for about twenty minutes longer, after which L sends double fries and can’t seem to get back on track, but at least no one starts snapping at him again. 

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After work, Light steps into the bus shelter and finds L already curled up on the seat, his knees pressed to his chest, staring straight into the traffic. The lights from the passing cars flicker on his face. 

“Which bus are you taking?” Light asks, just for something to say. 

“Oh,” L says. “None. I’m waiting for my brother.” He brings his thumb to his mouth and chews on it. It’s such a bizarre, childlike gesture. His coat, a long army-green thing which hangs off his skeletal frame, seems too thin for this weather.

“Older or younger?” 

“Mm. No.” 

For a moment, Light thinks that L’s batting down the conversation, but he takes another look at the spellbound way L stares out into the rivers of cars and realizes he’s just distracted. “You’re a twin?” 

L tilts his head very slightly. “Still no.” But there’s something different in his voice now — like it’s a game they’re playing, this guesswork. 

“Triplet, then.” 

L smiles. It’s sudden and starting. He tips his head further in Light’s direction and looks at him from the corners of his eyes. 

“Correct, Light-kun.” 

Light wants to say more, but the blue lights of the bus flash across the glass of the shelter. They reflect L’s face, turning him into a strange and scattered thing. Somehow both inhuman and more human than anyone has a right to be. He straightens his messenger back on his shoulder and steps out of the shelter. “I’ll see you tomorrow, alright?” he says, then hurries out.

[halucinnate]

Cassie Ainsworth Diet & Workout ꪆৎ!!

“Wow, that’s... gorgeous.” — Cassie

If Cassie Ainsworth had a diet and workout plan, this would be it. Floating through life, living on just enough, and keeping everything light and airy like her.

Diet Plan

Day 1: 500 calories

Breakfast: Black coffee (0 kcal) + 1 rice cake with avocado (90 kcal)

Lunch: Cucumber slices + hummus (50 kcal)

Dinner: Lettuce wrap with deli turkey (60 kcal) + herbal tea (0 kcal)

Snack: 10 frozen grapes (20 kcal)

Day 2: 300 calories

Breakfast: Green tea (0 kcal) + a handful of almonds (70 kcal)

Lunch: Clear vegetable broth (10 kcal) + spinach salad (50 kcal)

Dinner: Zucchini noodles with garlic (40 kcal)

Snack: 5 strawberries (15 kcal)

Day 3: 800 calories

Breakfast: Black coffee (0 kcal) + plain Greek yogurt with frozen berries (80 kcal)

Lunch: Egg white veggie scramble (70 kcal)

Dinner: Grilled fish (150 kcal) + steamed vegetables (50 kcal)

Snack: 1 apple (80 kcal)

Day 4: 400 calories

Breakfast: Herbal tea (0 kcal) + 1 boiled egg (70 kcal)

Lunch: Celery and hummus (40 kcal)

Dinner: Cauliflower rice with salsa (35 kcal) + spinach (7 kcal)

Snack: Frozen blueberries (20 kcal)

Day 5: 200 calories

Breakfast: Green tea (0 kcal)

Lunch: Cucumber slices with lemon (8 kcal)

Dinner: Clear soup (15 kcal)

Day 6: 700 calories

Breakfast: Coffee (0 kcal) + plain Greek yogurt (60 kcal)

Lunch: Salad with mixed greens and balsamic vinegar (50 kcal)

Dinner: Small piece of grilled chicken (150 kcal)

Snack: Rice cake with a thin layer of peanut butter (70 kcal)

Day 7: Fasting (0 calories)

Herbal tea and water all day.

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Workout Plan

Keep it light, just like Cassie. Nothing too intense, only enough to keep the body moving and thin:

30-minute morning walk: Clear your head, just like Cassie.

Standing side crunches: 3 sets of 20 each side (waist slimming).

Yoga: Gentle, flowing moves that keep you lean. 15 minutes of slow stretches.

Plank holds: Start with 30 seconds and build up to a minute. Keep that core tight.

Calf raises: 3 sets of 20 to keep your legs long and lean.

Evening stretching: Finish the day with 10 minutes of soft, slow stretches.

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Benefits

Small Waist: The low-calorie intake keeps your waist tiny, and gentle crunches help you achieve that slim look.

Flat Stomach: The combination of core exercises and light eating keeps bloating down.

Slender Legs: Walking and simple leg workouts elongate without adding bulk.

Light Energy: Like Cassie, you’ll feel weightless, like you’re floating through life.

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“I didn’t eat for three days so I could be lovely.” — Cassie Ainsworth, SKINS 🌙

[ros3ybabe]

Daily Check-in - July 27, 2023 🎀

Today was easier than yesterday, but I am still so sleepy and tired. I have to work a full shift tomorrow AND Saturday on top of my weekend chores so I'm hoping to take Sunday as a full self care day! Fingers crossed!!

🩷 What I Ate Today:

Breakfast - One slice of toast with mashed avocado, paprika, a fried egg, and a side of watermelon, and one cup of coffee.

Lunch - ground beef burrito bowl with black beans, shredded cheese, chopped iceberg lettuce, sour cream, salsa, and a low carb tortilla.

Dinner - One plate of spaghetti with meat marinara sauce, grated parmesean cheese, and two pieces of buttered bread

Other - One cup of coffee with French vanilla creamer

Water ~ 30oz I just forgot to drink water today, but using my water bottle has gotten easier and helped me drink more during the work day.

I didn't feel like snacking much today, and I couldn't finish my lunch, but I am very satisfied with my intake today! I love eating healthier and listening to my body. I do track what I eat, but I make sure it's food I like! Given my past, I can't do restrictions, so I choose to honor my wants in a way that works towards my goals and nourishes both my mind and body.

🩷 Workout - Upper Body Pilates (ish)

This one was really good! It was my first time trying it and it had my arms burning in a good way. I really enjoyed it, and I totally recommend. This is definitely going to be a regular of mine! 10/10

This one has been a favorite for a few years, I absolutely love the way it makes my arms feel. The movements are easy and effective, and leave me sore in a good way. Absolutely my favorite lean arms workout, hands down! 11/10

🩷 Habits I Completed Today:

Made my bed

Morning & Night Skincare

Morning & Night Guided Journal

Read 1 Chapter of a book

Workout

I forgot to do my mediation and stretching, and I didn't meet my hydration goal, but I'm taking every day in stride and doing what my energy allows me to accomplish. I believe in self compassion and flexibility in routine, especially given how my energy fluctuates on a daily basis. However, I am definitely doing the full habits list tomorrow, I'm going to challenge myself to accomplish every daily goal I have for myself!

🩷 Song of The Day: Eleven - IVE

This song makes me feel like a badass princess who deserves only the highest level of princess treatment. It's hard to describe how feminine and girly this song makes me feel, even on my most tomboyish, sweaty work days. An absolute bop!!

🩷 Current Read: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Tomorrow, I can do this. I can meet my goals, all of them. It'll take some effort, but I have faith in myself. Once I get the ball rolling, it's just a matter of forward motion with accomplishing each of my goals. I can't wait!!

I also need to budget for next Saturday, as I'm going shopping for some new clothes before my university opens back up for the fall semester. If I'm gonna feel my best, I'm going to look my best too! I'm really hoping to get a few new dresses, accessories (like hair stuff, pantyhose, jelwery, purses, etc), shoes, and maybe some tops and skirts too depending on what the store has. I love shopping, so I'm super excited!!!

Til tomorrow, my lovelies!! <3

[sweethoneyrose83]

Rambley's Railroad Menu ( Fanmade) Part 4 

Lunch in the Dining Car

Locomotive Club Sandwich: Triple-decker sandwich with turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise, served with a side of coleslaw or potato chips.

Pullman Porter’s Chicken Salad: A light and refreshing chicken salad with grapes, celery, and almonds, served on a bed of mixed greens or in a croissant.

Caboose Chili: A robust and spicy chili made with ground beef, beans, tomatoes, and a blend of spices, topped with shredded cheese and sour cream. 

Locomotive Club Sandwich 

Ingredients:

- 12 slices of thick-cut bread (sourdough or multigrain recommended) - 1/2 pound of cooked turkey breast, thinly sliced - 1/2 pound of cooked ham, thinly sliced - 8 slices of crispy bacon - 4 large leaves of romaine lettuce - 2 large tomatoes, thinly sliced - 8 slices of cheddar cheese - 1 avocado, sliced - 1/2 cup mayonnaise - 1/4 cup Dijon mustard - 2 tablespoons honey - 2 tablespoons pickled jalapeños, chopped (optional for a spicy kick) - Butter for toasting bread - Salt and pepper to taste - Skewers to hold the sandwich together

Instructions:

1. Prepare the Spread: - In a small bowl, mix the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, and honey until well combined. If you like a bit of spice, add the chopped pickled jalapeños.

2. Toast the Bread: - Lightly butter one side of each bread slice. - In a large skillet or on a griddle, toast the bread over medium heat until golden brown on both sides. Set aside.

3. Assemble the Sandwich: - Lay out three slices of toasted bread for each sandwich. - Spread a generous amount of the mayo-mustard mixture on one side of each slice.

4. Layering: - On the first slice, place a leaf of romaine lettuce, followed by a few slices of turkey, two slices of bacon, and a slice of cheddar cheese. - Top this with another slice of bread, spread side down. On this slice, spread more of the mayo-mustard mixture on the top side. - Add tomato slices, ham, avocado slices, and another slice of cheddar cheese on top of this second slice of bread. - Place the final slice of bread on top, spread side down.

5. Secure and Serve: - Insert skewers or long toothpicks at each corner of the sandwich to hold it together. - Carefully cut the sandwich into quarters, ensuring each quarter has a skewer through it.

6. Plating: - Arrange the quarters on a plate, garnish with some pickles or a small salad if desired.

Tips: - Customize the sandwich by adding or substituting ingredients like roast beef, different cheeses, or additional vegetables. - For a vegetarian version, replace the meats with grilled vegetables or a plant-based meat alternative.

Enjoy!

[howlingday]

Jaune Makes A Snack

A D&D Short story.

Jaune felt hungry, so he went into the kitchen to make himself a sandwich. A simple sandwich with nothing extravagant about it. He gathered the ingredients, bread and cheese and ham and lettuce and mayo, and set them on the counter. Dipping the knife into the mayonnaise jar, he readied the first ingredient.

Mayo - 16

Jaune took hold of the jar and swirled it's contents until he felt confident with his gained quarry. Carefully angling the jar, he retrieved the butter knife and earned his well-sized serving of condiments. He then slathered his mayo into the bottom slice, making near perfect use of each corner and side. Setting the knife aside, he reached for the ham.

Ham - 6

Jaune reached for packaged ham slices, only to realize it was unopened. No problem. He just had to tear open the... tear open the... TEAR OPEN THE- Ham slices flew all over the place as the packaging was torn asunder. There was ham on the microwave, in the sink, atop the fridge, and yes, even on the floor. The wettest slice slapped him in the face, landing in his hands. With a sigh, he set it down over the mayo bread slice and began cleaning up his mess. Better to clean ham than mayo everywhere, right? Once clean and his hands washed, Jaune took hold of the cheese block and cheese knife.

Cheese - 14

Cheese was much easier to handle than meat, it seemed, as Jaune's knife perfectly sank and slid into the cheese block. Whitish yellow dairy came apart in such a thin, yet satisfying amount, Jaune felt like the ham incident would be a one-time thing. Upon placing the cheese over the ham over the mayo bread slice, he reached for the fresh lettuce to the side.

Lettuce - 4

Jaune took hold of the lettuce and ripped off a leaf of... Oh. No, it wasn't a leaf. It was the hold thing. Jaune ripped the lettuce in half. Well, that's no big deal. He could just rip- Nope! That ripped in half, too! He stood in his kitchen with a half and two quarters worth of lettuce and whatever strips fell to the floor! Okay, okay. Deep breath. Jaune took hold of a singular leaf and and ripped it free! ...Into his face. Blinking through the pain, Jaune set the leaf on the cheese on the ham on the mayo bread slice. Setting the lettuces aside, there was only one ingredient left to add, and he had such success with the first time use, he felt confident in using it again.

Mayo - 1

Jaune reached for the knife already in the mayo. He missed. He missed and knocked the jar off the counter, and he spilled the mayonnaise all over the floor as glass shattered everywhere. Even the knife was on the floor, a towering monument of his failure, sitting atop and within the full jar amount of mayo. Jaune bent over, took the knife in his shaking hands, and spread what little was on there onto the bread. It was barely enough to see any mayo on the bread. He'd have to clean this up, but for now, he just wanted to take a bite of his assembled sandwich with the barely mayo bread slice atop the sliver of lettuce on the good slice of cheese placed over the wettest ham slice nestled above the good mayo slice of bread... and took a bite.

The whole thing - 9

Soured by the trials and ordeals he suffered in making the sandwich, Jaune's enjoyment of the sandwich was kept minimal. The wet ham and poor quality of floor mayo on the top slice combined with the sad sliver of lettuce doured what little good he saw in the mayonnaise on the bottom slice and cheese amount in the middle. Jaune finishedhis sandwich, someow feeling empty as he stared at the mess he had to clean.

Hopefully, this won't happen again.

[pearlsoflongago]

Looking into the Garden

Life and Love

Geraniums by Childe Hassam

Portrait by a Neighbour

Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you’ll find her A-sunning in the sun!

It’s long after midnight Her key’s in the lock, And you never see her chimney smoke Till past ten o’clock!

She digs in her garden With a shovel and a spoon, She weeds her lazy lettuce By the light of the moon.

She walks up the walk Like a woman in a dream, She forgets she borrowed butter And pays you back cream!

Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne’s lace!

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Paysage au Bord du Lez by Frederic Bazille

Heartsease Country

TO ISABEL SWINBURNE

The far green westward heavens are bland, The far green Wiltshire downs are clear As these deep meadows hard at hand: The sight knows hardly far from near, Nor morning joy from evening cheer. In cottage garden-plots their bees Find many a fervent flower to seize And strain and drain the heart away From ripe sweet-williams and sweet-peas At every turn on every way.

But gladliest seems one flower to expand Its whole sweet heart all round us here; ’Tis Heartsease Country, Pansy Land. Nor sounds nor savours harsh and drear Where engines yell and halt and veer Can vex the sense of him who sees One flower-plot midway, that for trees Has poles, and sheds all grimed or grey For bowers like those that take the breeze At every turn on every way.

Content even there they smile and stand, Sweet thought’s heart-easing flowers, nor fear, With reek and roaring steam though fanned, Nor shrink nor perish as they peer. The heart’s eye holds not those more dear That glow between the lanes and leas Where’er the homeliest hand may please To bid them blossom as they may Where light approves and wind agrees At every turn on every way.

Sister, the word of winds and seas Endures not as the word of these Your wayside flowers whose breath would say How hearts that love may find heart’s ease At every turn on every way.

—Charles Algernon Swinburne

Picking Flowers by Auguste Renoir

The Flower's Name

Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, now I push its wicket, the moss Hinders the hinges and makes them wince! She must have reached this shrub ere she turned, As back with that murmur the wicket swung; For she laid the poor snail, my chance foot spurned, To feed and forget it the leaves among. Down this side of the gravel-walk She went while her robe's edge brushed the box: And here she paused in her gracious talk To point me a moth on the milk-white phlox. Roses, ranged in valiant row, I will never think that she passed you by! She loves you, noble roses, I know; But yonder, see, where the rock-plants lie! This flower she stopped at, finger on lip, Stooped over, in doubt, as settling its claim; Till she gave me, with pride to make no slip, Its soft meandering Spanish name: What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake. Roses, if I live and do well, I may bring her, one of these days, To fix you fast with as fine a spell, Fit you each with his Spanish phrase; But do not detain me now; for she lingers There, like sunshine over the ground, And ever I see her soft white fingers Searching after the bud she found. Flower, you Spaniard, look that you grow not, Stay as you are and be loved forever! Bud, if I kiss you 't is that you blow not, Mind, the shut pink mouth opens never! For while it pouts, her fingers wrestle, Twinkling the audacious leaves between, Till round they turn and down they nestle— Is not the dear mark still to be seen? Where I find her not, beauties vanish; Whither I follow her, beauties flee; Is there no method to tell her in Spanish June 's twice June since she breathed it with me? Come, bud, show me the least of her traces, Treasure my lady's lightest footfall! —Ah, you may flout and turn up your faces— Roses, you are not so fair after all!

—Robert Browning

Still Life with Flowers by Edouard Manet