Messy Dining

I really love the whole foods brand tomato soup. It's been one of my go to easy lunches for a while now. Tastes great, seems reasonably healthy and best of all, just a quick shake and a few minutes of microwaving to prep. Easy peasy.

At least it is, so long as you make sure to keep your finger on the little spout when you do the shake step. I do this so often that I don't even think anymore. So when I gave it a firm shake this afternoon, it was like a slow motion horror sequence as I saw all my fingers on the side, none on top and a giant cascade of tomato headed right towards me. It went all over my face, my arms, my clean shirt that I had been looking forward to wearing today. I'm still finding little spots of dried tomato soup in odd places (in between my toes, behind my ears, etc). Only my pants managed to largely avoid the carnage, just a few easy to sponge off drips.

I finally managed to stop the soup dripping off of me, and moved to put the container back in the fridge. Which meant moving a giant container of greek yogurt. And yes, I did drop the yogurt, it's flimsy lid went flying. My pants weren't so lucky this time around.

An outfit change and a few hours latter it was time for my next meal. Come dinner time I was a little wary of anything drippy, so I though I would play it safe and just have a nice salad for dinner. Lots of hard, non-liquid vegetables. What could go wrong? Nothing, at least until I decided it needed a little more dressing. One firm shake to mix everything up again and of course the lid was just placed on, of course it flew all over me. Again.