The No-Cook Lunch Courteney Cox Eats Almost Every Day

Our celebrity adoration can go in different directions. Some fans are focused on a celebrity's ever-evolving love life. Some are fascinated with which celebrities are having Twitter fights. When I’m a fan of a celebrity, I’m a bit fixated on what they’re eating. 

I love knowing that Ina Garten eats oatmeal for breakfast almost every morning, just like I do most mornings, even though we prepare it differently. After shopping at Trader Joe’s, Tiffani Thiessen puts some of the snacks she buys in the front seat with her to munch on as she drives home. So do I! Growing up, Michelle Obama ate PB&J every morning for breakfast, which makes me love her even more. 

As an uber fan of "Friends" and its six stars with whom I virtually went through my 20s, I didn’t think I could be a bigger fan of Courteney Cox. But after I recently read about her daily lunch, I'm an even bigger fan. It’s silly, I know, but I don’t care. 

How Courteney Cox Adds Crunch to Her Turkey Roll-Up Lunch

The actress famous for playing Monica Geller on "Friends" told The Kitchn that she often has a protein shake for breakfast and that she’ll often throw together pasta with garlic and olive oil in a weeknight pinch. But it was her lunch—and one specific ingredient—that really caught my attention. 

Courteney makes a turkey roll-up for lunch, but she doesn’t put the ingredients in a tortilla. Rather, she puts the other ingredients on the turkey and rolls them up inside the lunch meat. 

"For lunch, most likely I will have turkey roll-ups which consist of Boar’s Head turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, Havarti cheese, avocado..." Cox said. (At this point, I thought, Oh, this is like the painful Atkins diet we were all following in the early 2000s.)  Then she finished the ingredient list and included one that could have never been in one of those sad, Atkins-inspired roll-ups I tried for weeks: "Fritos, and pepper."

Fritos! 

We rarely think of Fritos as an ingredient, but it’s not an uncommon one. Consider Frito Pie, Funky Frito Fruckies, or Frito Chicken Casserole. The addition of the salty, crunchy chip to a turkey roll-up instantly makes it more interesting and appealing. The crunch adds texture, kind of like adding potato chips to PB&J (which, in my opinion, takes PB&J to another level of satisfying goodness). 

So perhaps, adding Fritos takes Courteney’s everyday lunch to another level. I may just have to try it out.