*Dear People I Know in Real Life, You should probably stop here.*
I was at Veggie Grill on Sunday having one of the best dates ever...by myself. It was raining outside, and I sat next to the window with my big ol' sandwich and my holiday to do list and the annual food issue of the New Yorker, trying not to eavesdrop on the not-best-date-ever going on next to me (lots of talk of energy and the yin and the yaaang) and being so, so, so very grateful for my husband and the totally normal way he pronounces yang and the fact that he doesn't do it very often. It turns out that Veggie Grill is having a special right now where you get a free entree when you buy a 30 dollar gift card. I did that. Now I want to do all of my holiday shopping in that fashion. Unfortunately nothing else on this list comes with a free sandwich, but they're all still really, really good: