Food - Knockoff Whole Foods Orzo Salad

When I first started taking German lessons (Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch.), the classes were Saturday afternoons. For the first few classes, I kept waking up at my usual time, make an egg dish or waffles for breakfast, then look up and realize I had to rush out the door to class. I would be STARVING by the time I got out of class at 5pm. I eventually changed my morning routine, but before I did I would rush after class to Whole Foods in Union Square to get some lunch. But it couldn't really be lunch or something so large I wouldn't want dinner, it had to be a satisfying snack.

Enter the Orzo Salad at Whole Foods. That salad is perfect. Just wonderful mix of flavors, the sharp red onion, bitter parsley, creamy feta, and briny olives. Mmmmmm...

And I felt so silly buying a small container of it and scarfing it down on the train. Sometimes buying two when my hunger got the best of me in the market.

Just now while looking for recipes for dinner tonight, I stumbled upon a knockoff recipe, though it sounds like Whole Foods' recipe is a knockoff of another market's recipe.

Now I can eat it all the time, and avoid the ridiculous lines and nasty customers at Whole Foods (the staff is generally friendly there, but the customers... ugh...). Hooray!