the ciabatta roll

This attempt at spending a dollar was actually a failure, but not for lack of trying. Noodles & Company has a strange promotion going on right now called the Ten Degrees of Salad, where you can enjoy one of their summertime salads for free if you have in your possession one of their special pass-it-on T-shirts. They distributed a certain number of T-shirts a month or so ago, and the idea is that you use it once, then pass it on to someone else who can then take it in to Noodles and try a salad. My deal-savvy mother received a T-shirt the first day of the pay-it-forward salad movement, and she kindly passed it on to me. So, free lunch! (Don’t worry, Tim got one too — there were a few shirts floating around my house since my sister and her kids had capitalized on the deal as well.)

I went for the very berry spinach salad, which was a little light on the berries, but totally loaded up with crumbled bacon and blue cheese. We felt the need to add some carbs to the meal, so Tim returned to the counter to order a $0.75 ciabatta roll (close enough to a dollar, in my opinion). He attempted to pay with a credit card, but the cashier told him cash would be required for a purchase that tiny. He was cashless, so he returned to our table to swipe a dollar from my wallet. But when he returned to the counter to hand over the money, the cashier told him not to worry about it since she’d already closed out the order. So, free salad and free bread!

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