I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my lunch.

When I do the weekly shop I try to make sure there are some options for the girls to have while they’re home, and I always figure there will be enough dinner leftovers that I can scrape something together for myself. (Not too many people in this house are fans of leftovers, so if there’s something left over, it’s mine.)

But lately there haven’t been a lot of leftovers for some reason.

And as a result, I’ve been making peanut butter and banana sandwiches for myself multiple times a week.

In the past few years I was eating a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It was quick, it filled me, and it was a nice treat on days I exercised, which are days I like to have something filling.

The jelly, though, was troubling me. I’ve tried to cut down on sugary items in my diet and jelly is pretty sugary. I mean, it’s basically pure sugar.

So I stopped eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…but I missed them. When I was thinking about doing PB and J for work, I didn’t consider it much because the jelly would be too runny and it would be too messy.

But then I realized I could cut up a banana in there.

I know this is not a novel idea. A lot of athletes have sandwiches like this one - I’d definitely read about it as part of someone’s diet.

I think I have a book somewhere that gives examples of the meals some athletes eat, and I think this was in there multiple times.

For me it’s a really good option - I use multigrain bread, so it’s not unhealthy - that takes less time to slap together than something like the peanut butter and banana oat bars I told you about at the beginning of the year.

And I like to think it’s helping fuel my runs - or re-fueling me after my runs.