Today we forgot to take a photo of this until we'd eaten half. This is one of the go-to poverty lunches in our Kingdom. The beginning of this fiscal year was unstable in the kingdom, so much fried rice was eaten, by royalty and peasantry alike.
Peasant's Fried Rice:
We take a pan and put some canola oil in the bottom--a tablespoon or two. Then when it's hot we break an egg into the pan and stir like crazy, until the egg is cooked. We add a bunch of frozen mixed veggies--whatever was cheap at the store (or whatever "fresh" veggies could be found in the scary depths of the Royal Crisper Drawer). We grate in some ginger, maybe some garlic. We slice a spring onion and throw the white parts in at this point, but not the green! Then we add some cold leftover rice, with soy sauce, fish sauce if we're feeling non-vegetarian that day, some sake, maybe some sesame oil. Whatever's handy. Then we add in some chopped cilantro, the green bits of the onion, and maybe some garlic chili paste, give it a good stir, and then put it in a box. Cheap and easy and delicious.
Often, it must be said, the peasants eat their lunches out of common Tupperware--and so does the King.
You'll also notice that the King sometimes forgets to eat her vitamin at breakfast. These are also the cheapo nausea-inducing (iron and zinc not buffered for her protection) vitamins. When the King is richer, she eats fancy vitamins that are OK on an empty stomach, and so if she forgets, she doesn't have to wait until lunch to eat it without barfing. When the Kingdom is poor, she makes personal sacrifices and so has to wait for a full meal to avoid negative side-effects. The King sometimes is delicate.
But isn't the King's water bottle pretty?
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