Dinner has always been my favorite meal of the day. It represents a closing of the loop–a time to leave the frenetic outside world and come home, change into something soft and comfortable, create a wholesome meal, and enjoy it with those you love, even if it’s yourself.

So an evening art course has thrown me for a loop. For the past several years I have been taking classes in printmaking, which I adore, as I do photography. Thus, when the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston offered a class called Photo and Digital Applications in Printmaking, I had to take it.

It’s been fabulous and I am learning so much. The teeny, weeny problem is what to have for dinner. The class begins at 6:30pm, but everyone arrives around 5pm in order to use the various photo and printmaking machines, which are limited. There isn’t any time for a break and eating when I get home around 10:30pm seems a tad unhealthy.

Ergo, the small culinary conundrum. Big breakfast, late lunch? Normal breakfast, tiny lunch, early dinner?

Thus far, my strategy is to bring some snacks–something veggie related, like these crispy seaweed sheets, which taste like potato chips!

I also bring Japanese rice crackers, like this big one studded with black sesame seeds.

A piece of fruit, like an orange, is a nice option, as are plain, unsalted roasted peanuts for protein.

Look at the hole in the plastic bag! See that the bag is empty.

Note the mouse droppings (the tiny black rice-shaped things) in the blue bag.

When I came home last night I left my art bag on a chair in the kitchen holding my unfinished bag of peanuts. Guess who ate them in the dark of night?  Not me. Not John. Hmm….