For dinner tonight, I wanted to make anxiety-free lentil soup (it does not contain meat, dairy, or anything raw which means that it is a perfect dish), but I had to stay at work late. So I decided to stop by the store on my way home instead and get lunch meat and cheese for a sandwich. This way, I would have something for lunch tomorrow as well. The last time I purchased lunch meat, I got it from the Deli counter, (less chemical preservatives). However, when the person put the meat on the scale, I saw that the ham was not completely on the plastic sheet and was touching the scale directly. This was very disturbing, because I do not know how often the scale is cleaned, and I now had to worry about any other meats that touched the scale, not just my own ham. So if someone purchased some bad turkey and hour ago, my ham could become contaminated. I decided to purchase pre-packaged Genoa salami. Earlier today, I had a conversation with a friend at work who told me that this is the type of lunch meat she buys. She says that it lasts an entire week. I do not eat any deli poultry, such as turkey or ham, as that is more likely than a salted or smoked meat to make me sick. My friend is a very talented cook. She actually cooks 3 full meals a day, from scratch, even though she has a part-time job, and is a PhD student. She also is very health-conscious, not in the way that someone who wants to loose weight is "health-conscious", but in that she believes whole foods are better, chemical preservatives are not good for the system, etc. I always trust what she tells me about food. (Even though she told me that the salami will last for 5 days, I will only eat it for 3, just to be SAFE). So after I got home, I opened the package, and pulled out two pieces of salami. They were really oily. More oily than I ever remember salami being. First, I called my Baba, and casually told her that my salami was very oily to see if she said something to me like, "Oh, really? That usually means it's bad and I wouldn't eat it." However, her response to my comment was, "You should eat some soup, too." This was interesting, as my friend from work and I were just talking yesterday about how good it is for the digestive system to eat soup with lunch and dinner. So then I called my husband who was still at work, and he said that I should eat the salami. So, I ate 1/2 of my sandwich, and then took the salami off and ate the second 1/2.
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