Using Bento Boxes for lunches.
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Narcissora wrote: »After a month of having no option but to eat out, I am finally settled into my new home! I don't have a job yet, but I figured I would do some bento lunches to get back on track with eating my fruits and veggies.
Mini hamburgers, cucumber and tomato salad (cucumber, tomato, parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, salt & pepper), blackberries, champagne grapes
I love champagne grapes, but I could never really get over the fact that you're supposed to eat the stems. It's too weird.
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DawnEmbers - Not sure what a bubble colour run is, but I did a colour run and it was great fun! Good luck!
My lady was from Japan - I got her from ebay, but it took a couple of weeks for her to get here. I also got an owl one, which I have used to pack tomorrows lunch.
Chinese rice with honeyed pork, radish, and pepper with a snack pot of houmous, a babybel light and a Satsuma, and hidden under the veg is a sneaky fudge for the afternoon munchies
I stuffed raw spinach into the pot after I had taken the picture, to hold it all in it comes to 761 calories, but it will do me all day, with a lighter dinner in the evening. 0 -
SpecialKitty7 wrote: »Narcissora wrote: »After a month of having no option but to eat out, I am finally settled into my new home! I don't have a job yet, but I figured I would do some bento lunches to get back on track with eating my fruits and veggies.
Mini hamburgers, cucumber and tomato salad (cucumber, tomato, parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, salt & pepper), blackberries, champagne grapes
I love champagne grapes, but I could never really get over the fact that you're supposed to eat the stems. It's too weird.
I didn't know you were supposed to eat the stem - I definitely don't. But the grapes are deliciously sweet and well worth the effort to pluck them all individually off the stem.0 -
plumsparkle - it's basically a color run but uses bubbles so it's very foamy and such. Or that's what I'm guessing. I've never done one before. My first 5k was a neon glow run in June. This will be my second time jogging a whole 5k. That owl is cute too. I'm not a big fan of pink but on occasion it's good.0
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DawnEmbers - it sounds like it will be great fun. I loved the colour run, and I did a 5k mud run recently. It was a charity event, and there were 8 obstacles you had to get over, mostly involving mud-the final obstacle was climbing up an inflatable slide, and sliding down the other side into a pool of mud0
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plumsparkle wrote: »DawnEmbers - Not sure what a bubble colour run is, but I did a colour run and it was great fun! Good luck!
My lady was from Japan - I got her from ebay, but it took a couple of weeks for her to get here. I also got an owl one, which I have used to pack tomorrows lunch.
Chinese rice with honeyed pork, radish, and pepper with a snack pot of houmous, a babybel light and a Satsuma, and hidden under the veg is a sneaky fudge for the afternoon munchies I stuffed raw spinach into the pot after I had taken the picture, to hold it all in it comes to 761 calories, but it will do me all day, with a lighter dinner in the evening.
I think I have the same owl on the way teehee. The honeyed pork looks delish!0 -
plumsparkle wrote: »DawnEmbers - it sounds like it will be great fun. I loved the colour run, and I did a 5k mud run recently. It was a charity event, and there were 8 obstacles you had to get over, mostly involving mud-the final obstacle was climbing up an inflatable slide, and sliding down the other side into a pool of mud
I missed out on the colour and neon runs in Melbourne this year (wasn't quite fit enough to do them yet), and the 'run for your lives' zombie mud run was cancelled. I have a 10km in October now, but that's it
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My bento is calorie lite tomorrow because my husband & I might go out to dinner.
Breakfast - biscuits & a bunny soy egg
1st snack - in the mini Hello Kitty To-go container is a instant miso cup of soup kit
Lunch - imitation crab legs n cocktail sauce in the little jelly jar, cucumber chunks with misses dash seasoning, plus cottage cheese with drizzled honey n cinnamon
2nd snack - in the Hello Kitty cupcake tin is 4 Hello Panda cookies.
550 calories.0 -
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I think I have the same owl on the way teehee. The honeyed pork looks delish![/quote]
it is, but the recipe used belly pork, so its quite high in calories. Next time i make it, i will try a leaner cut.
The owls are lovely aren't they. There were different colours with different expressions, but I love purple, and he is actually a pale lilac, not pink like he looks in the picture, so it had to be him lol!0 -
plumsparkle wrote: »[quote
I think I have the same owl on the way teehee. The honeyed pork looks delish!
it is, but the recipe used belly pork, so its quite high in calories. Next time i make it, i will try a leaner cut.
The owls are lovely aren't they. There were different colours with different expressions, but I love purple, and he is actually a pale lilac, not pink like he looks in the picture, so it had to be him lol! [/quote]
I think I just asked for a random one, so I don't know which one I'm going to get. I'm happy with any; now I just need a baggie to match it ^_^0 -
No bento for me again. My husband has been working opposite hours of me, so by the time I get home, make dinner, exercise, take care of the crew, I'm too tired to make lunch. Just to share what happens if I don't have him to run interference, here's last night's ramen dinner:
Apparently my new kitty has a taste for miso. Sad thing is his slurping ability is better than mine
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@SpecialKitty7 i cant remember, but i hope you didn't log the whole serving0
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mangrothian wrote: »@SpecialKitty7 i cant remember, but i hope you didn't log the whole serving
I figured the 4 noodles and part of a yolk he ate weren't worth the adjustment
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Left my bento in the office today, so I packed lunch in a glad box.
Pasta with parmesan and crumbled feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, spicy chipotle garlic prawns, grilled chicken breast and tuna!
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Narcissora wrote: »
Haha thank you!! I definitely don't use my eye picks enough... gotta keep looking for fun produce to put them on at the grocery store. 0 -
Similar to my bento from yesterday:
Cucumber and tomato salad; champagne grapes; rice with peppers, onions, and salsa verde; and three mini burgers that are happy to be in my bento.0 -
mangrothian wrote: »
I missed out on the colour and neon runs in Melbourne this year (wasn't quite fit enough to do them yet), and the 'run for your lives' zombie mud run was cancelled. I have a 10km in October now, but that's it
Ooh, now I want to do a run for your life zombie mud run!! Will have to look and see if they do one in the uk!
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The neon glow run was fun though think it would have been better if I had known someone there. Doing it alone just wasn't as fun since almost everyone else was in pairs or groups. We will see how bubble color goes Saturday. I'm also signed up for a hero 5k, need to get a hero costume together still by September 5th. I have a 10k near end of October called Run Like Hell, which is Halloween based with a "clown" type of theme this year.
Decided to do bento for tonight. Last night I slow cooked chicken and potatoes in lite coconut milk with curry paste. Put chicken in separate container then today sautéed little onions and cooked lentils to add to the "curry" liquid and potatoes. There is a little thing of microwave rice under the lentils and such. About 600 calories over all but great numbers in protein from the chicken and lentils. I have so many lentils... Will find some uses for them tomorrow, on my day off from work.
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Bento today:
Breakfast: Blueberries, banana, Greek yogurt + cookies n cream protein powder + cocoa powder, hard boiled egg on spinach! (254 cal)
Lunch: turkey & laughing cow roll ups, mini quiche, snap peas, quick guac, chicken and wheat thins (445 cal)
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Narcissora wrote: »Similar to my bento from yesterday:
Cucumber and tomato salad; champagne grapes; rice with peppers, onions, and salsa verde; and three mini burgers that are happy to be in my bento.
Looks delicious and happy (:0 -
I have never heard to bento lunch box0
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Back at work after a 4-day weekend, and thank God for bentos b/c it was the only thing to look forward to:
Chicken, mixed veggies, rice, and a salad. (And I remembered my salad dressing, yay!)
Due to my cooking laziness (aka, the way 90+ heat in an apartment with a single window AC unit makes me NOT want to turn on the burners or oven), I will have the exact same bento all 3 workdays this week
But it was nummy and filling, so it should be fine. 0 -
I ordered a pink one and a yellow one >__< why are these owl bentos soooo kawaii?mangrothian wrote: »I think I have the same owl on the way teehee.0 -
No food to show but I got my first of two packages today. Thought the second might come first cause the free shipping meant I could get the shortest time frame and still not pay for it. But actually, my first order came earlier than expected. It's so cute! Penguin bento, little food separators, dessert pics with faces on top, and little sauce cups.
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Oh wow, everything is so cute! Cute accessories make bento more fun.DawnEmbers wrote: »0 -
And that's why I believe in eating with my eyes. If it looks good, and was fun to make, it'll always taste betterbunnyxhime wrote: »
Oh wow, everything is so cute! Cute accessories make bento more fun.DawnEmbers wrote: »
I've always been an owl fan. Most of my coffee cups and stuff have owls on them. The only worry I have about this box is that it's a lot bigger than my others, and I don't want to have the compulsion to fill it when it'll be too much food.bunnyxhime wrote: »
I ordered a pink one and a yellow one >__< why are these owl bentos soooo kawaii?mangrothian wrote: »I think I have the same owl on the way teehee.
I was so tired when I got home last night that I completely forgot to make my bento. I also forgot to post the pic from yesterdays, so here it is. My go-to quick bento, the smoked salmon flower bento
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So inspired by the Bento meals you have shown here. Visual appeal has so much to do with what we eat and the satisfaction it provides. Thanks for the ideas, going to try this for trip away from home.0
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That bento is gorgeous; you're so food talented! I bet you'll figure out how to fill up your bento without making it too high calorie. More veggies will probably be the way to go though lolmangrothian wrote: »
I love owls, too! I had been on TOM and saw the cutest horned owl plush, and I wanted it so bad, but it was sold out. There's a white one, too. (I'd post a pic, but don't want to divert from forum topic >.o;)
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