The easiest of easy lunches!

Whole Foods makes a tuna and cranberry salad that I absolutely love. But it's also... tuna salad, and I just can't get myself to spend $5 on a little container of TUNA. So I recreated it at home for a fraction of the price. It really couldn't be easier. One day I might try re-hydrating the dried cranberries by soaking them in water but this way is so delicious, it's like- why bother? And since I had a huge bag of mini sweet peppers, I stuffed some tuna in them and called it lunch. This would be perfect for those days when I'm at the office and need to eat at my desk.

1 can drained tuna
handful of dried cranberries, roughly chopped
mayo (I go super easy on it because mayo is gross, you could use olive oil here, too)
garlic powder
onion powder
dash of red pepper
s&p

Mix together and stuff!

Just a regular carrot in a baby sized body

Some people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes, I fall into Pinterest ones. Tonight, after clicking through from blog to blog to blog, I discovered how baby carrots were born. I haven't ever put much thought into the mini veggie's origin but it turns out, they're just regular old carrots whiddled down to the 2 inch size we all know and love. They were created to reduce waste since funny shaped carrots don't sell well- the knobby, bendy ones were being chucked. To avoid having to throw so many perfectly good, if unusually shaped, carrots away, the rejects were cut down and packaged as babies. Which is all well and good, but they cost so much more! For the same thing! Just smaller.

The USA Today article on the creator of the baby carrot can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2004-08-11-baby-carrot_x.htm