Three for the Price of One

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a wonderfully delicious dinner ending with very full bellies. Not having the internet has made it quite difficult to keep up with the uploading of lunch pictures, so it looks like I'm going to be posting them in batches. More bang for your buck, right? Anyway, three lunches from long, long ago.

October 11: So, upon Biggie's advice, I made a trip to my local Costco to purchase the Aidell's brand of meatballs. I have to say, it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. They are perfect for the fastest lunch in the world early in the mornings. I just microwave them for 45 seconds along with my rice and pack the fruit the night before and I'm ready to go! It's amazing! This lunch contains 5 Teriyaki and pineapple meatballs, rice sprinkled with nori furikake, some steamed broccoli, grapes, and fuji apple--both from the local farmer's market. You'll probably see a variations of this very same lunch until I run out of meatballs, its pretty much my go-to lunch when there is nothing left in my fridge.



October 12: It looks as though I got on a small kick of making my lunch, go me! The top tier is filled with organic spinach topped with star shaped carrot slices, some shelled edamame and frozen white corn. In the small container is some sesame dressing from Trader Joe's. This salad is also a staple of mine, its one of the few ways I can get myself to eat so many veggies at once. Is it sad when you have to resort to semi-trickery on yourself? The bottom tier contains some salami slices with a small chunk of fresh mozzarella on cute picks that I picked up from the Daiso that finally opened here in San Diego! I used a small piece of foil to separate the sweet from the savory. Some grapes and part of a white nectarine round out the lunch, again, both from the local farmer's market.


October 16: I told you I used meatballs and salads when my fridge is absolutely empty! So, top tier is meatballs and rice sprinkled with nori furikake. The small container holds sesame dressing for the salad. Bottom tier is a bed of organic spinach topped with sliced carrots and white corn. I must have run out of my trusty frozen shelled edamame. Time to make a trip to the Japanese market! Next to the salad is part of a fuji apple from the farmer's market. Did I mention how much I love the farmer's market? No? I do!

So, it seems I should say, come back in about a month to see an update. Ok, I hope it isn't that long. However, I am going away on a few business trips that will be feeding me well. So, its a good thing that I have a huge backlog of pictures to share--eventually.

Oy, bento!

Ok, so I have been mulling it over. And well, I think I might just turn this blog into a bento blog. I only say this because my creative juices have taken a vacation and all that I really have to post are pictures of my lunches. I know, its not very exciting, and I'm not very creative, nor will I post recipes, but hopefully someone will find this blog interesting. Currently, I don't have internet access at my house, so I'm limited to the time I can steal away at work, so I have accumulated a few pictures that need posting. One day soon!

Bento, Bento Everywhere!

So I can see that this is quickly becoming a collection of my bento photos. Despair not! Soon I will get out of this creative funk and make something splendid for everyone to see. In the meantime, this is all I can muster while trying to fight this pesky cold that I feel coming on. Oh, and I realize that I am posting my photos humungo-sized, but I am just plain too lazy to resize them.

Boring backlogged bento. Woo for alliteration! Here we have some yummy left over filipino beef that a friends mom made situated on a bed of rice. Some shelled edemame and frozen corn fill the lower right hand corner and part of a peach all sliced up and ready to eat fills the top right hand corner. This isn't one of my more eye pleasing bento lunches, but it did the trick.


Whew! I am finally caught up! This is my lunch from yesterday. I think it would have looked better if I had used the green puti fresh box instead of the pink, but switching the boxes just would have been plain silly.

This lunch was both delish and super filling. In the top tier is some leftover chicken katsu on a bed of rice from a yummy Japanese restaurant that I adore. The small container holds katsu sauce which can be likened to "Japanese steak sauce". The broccoli is there for color. The bottom tier holds half of an apple and some grapes from my local farmer's market and some carrot sticks. I must say, since I have been reading Biggie's blog, I have been inspired to try to get 5 colors into my lunches. Tasty success!

Another Bento Lunch

So this is another lunch from a long time ago. August 27th to be exact.

The lunch consisted of the Spring Salad Mix from Trader Joe's with cucumbers, shelled edemame, frozen corn and carrots cut in the shape of stars. To the left of the salad are some fresh mango chunks and fresh blueberries. In the sauce container is some sesame dressing from Trader Joe's.

I haven't been making bentos lunches lately because I have been pretty lazy. Hopefully this post will inspire me to start making healthy lunches again.

Welcome.

Welcome. I am going to devote this site to posting the various things that I have made. From bento box lunches, clothes, totes, scrapbook pages, to art projects, everything that I like, I'll put on here. I'm kind of slow/lazy on the posting, so I'll do my best.

This is my lunch that I made on July 26. The top tier consists of nectarine slices, blueberries, and somen with a small bottle of somen tsuyu. The bottom tier has potstickers with gyoza sauce, inari sushi and some shelled edamame. Yum, very tasty and easy to make.