Using Bento Boxes for lunches.
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If PB was 0 calories I don't know if I could fins much room in my day to eat much elseNarcissora wrote: »I wish peanut butter were zero calories. I love that stuff, but I can't eat it and still make my daily calorie goals.
Today's lunch consisted of rice, chicken with teriyaki sauce, tamagoyaki (which didn't turn out so well but tasted awesome) and two small dumplings in the bottom teir and a generic salad in the top tier.
Came to about 560 cals.
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Layer 1: chicken, raspberries, grapes, mushrooms and almonds
Layer 2: mini mozzarella balls with tomatoes and carrot flowers. Served with ranch dressing ( and a side of curious cat )
Every one of mine comes with a side of curious cat! Alternately it can be: pushy cat, thief cat, taste tester cat, or i'll just stick my toe in there cat...
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SpecialKitty7 wrote: »
Layer 1: chicken, raspberries, grapes, mushrooms and almonds
Layer 2: mini mozzarella balls with tomatoes and carrot flowers. Served with ranch dressing ( and a side of curious cat )
Every one of mine comes with a side of curious cat! Alternately it can be: pushy cat, thief cat, taste tester cat, or i'll just stick my toe in there cat...
Yes! She was on her way to thief cat; I got the picture as quickly as I could to save the bento. The picture may be a little out of frame but my lunch is secure!
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SpecialKitty7 wrote: »
Layer 1: chicken, raspberries, grapes, mushrooms and almonds
Layer 2: mini mozzarella balls with tomatoes and carrot flowers. Served with ranch dressing ( and a side of curious cat )
Every one of mine comes with a side of curious cat! Alternately it can be: pushy cat, thief cat, taste tester cat, or i'll just stick my toe in there cat...
One day I'll start calling you the crazy cat lady, but I don't want you spouting gibberish and throwing your kitties at me like missiles. That, and I could be called crazy dog lady...0 -
I wish you could "like" posts on here...
No bento for me yesterday, and I won't have one on Monday (my favorite food truck catered at work yesterday, and we have loads of leftovers for Monday), but I will be lurking around until then
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- Baby spinach, gouda cheese slice
- Chicken!
- Reese's mini peanut butter cups, salted edamame, blueberries
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mangrothian wrote: »SpecialKitty7 wrote: »
Layer 1: chicken, raspberries, grapes, mushrooms and almonds
Layer 2: mini mozzarella balls with tomatoes and carrot flowers. Served with ranch dressing ( and a side of curious cat )
Every one of mine comes with a side of curious cat! Alternately it can be: pushy cat, thief cat, taste tester cat, or i'll just stick my toe in there cat...
One day I'll start calling you the crazy cat lady, but I don't want you spouting gibberish and throwing your kitties at me like missiles. That, and I could be called crazy dog lady...
Meh, I've been called worse. Technically, I should be the crazy pet lady, as I've got cats, dogs, rats & fish.
@sagj Exactly! I'll have to share that with the other crazy cat lady at work, err..umm other cat enthusiast
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Hey, I resemble that remark!0
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I keep forgetting to take pics before I devour mine, but here's today's. I had a heavy breakfast out with my sweetheart, so I took it easy for dinner and snacktime. Large baked potato with cheese and sour cream, yogurt and multigrain chips with black bean hummus. Altogether around 475 cals.
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I've never seen blackbean hummus before, sounds interesting. And I'm jealous of that can of dr pepper; that stuff is so hard to get here. If I do find dr. pepper, its a specialty import and costs like AU$3 a can.SnuggleSmacks wrote: »I keep forgetting to take pics before I devour mine, but here's today's. I had a heavy breakfast out with my sweetheart, so I took it easy for dinner and snacktime. Large baked potato with cheese and sour cream, yogurt and multigrain chips with black bean hummus. Altogether around 475 cals.
@SpecialKitty7 I used to be a crazy pet lady, but the house we're renting only allows dogs and fish. So that's what we have. Kitty had to move to my parents, where he promptly went out into the garden and ate something he shouldn't, and is now in kitty heaven *sniff*
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mangrothian wrote: »I've never seen blackbean hummus before, sounds interesting. And I'm jealous of that can of dr pepper; that stuff is so hard to get here. If I do find dr. pepper, its a specialty import and costs like AU$3 a can.
I'm not sure how far it would be for you but there is a place in Moorabbin that sells 16 packs of Dr. Pepper for about $12. They're called USA foods, they sell a few different things that are hard to find here but popular in the US 0 -
@mangrothian I bet if you can't find the black bean hummus, you could probably find a recipe for it. I can't imagine it's difficult to make if you can find the ingredients. I like it because it's spicy and has fewer calories than regular hummus.0
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mangrothian wrote: »I've never seen blackbean hummus before, sounds interesting. And I'm jealous of that can of dr pepper; that stuff is so hard to get here. If I do find dr. pepper, its a specialty import and costs like AU$3 a can.
I'm not sure how far it would be for you but there is a place in Moorabbin that sells 16 packs of Dr. Pepper for about $12. They're called USA foods, they sell a few different things that are hard to find here but popular in the US
I've been to USA foods a few times when I was living in the Eastern Suburbs, but I'm a little too far away from Moorabbin now.0 -
Wow! What great ideas and beautiful pictures! Thank you all for sharing! 0
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So, I'm finding myself wanting to try sushi again. Problem is: I can't eat raw sushi. It's always been a problem for me. Does anyone have any suggestions for sushi for me?
Also, I got myself another bento. This time it's a MonBento. I'll try to post pictures when I am able.0 -
srschaffer1 wrote: »So, I'm finding myself wanting to try sushi again. Problem is: I can't eat raw sushi. It's always been a problem for me. Does anyone have any suggestions for sushi for me?
Also, I got myself another bento. This time it's a MonBento. I'll try to post pictures when I am able.
I've made sushi rolls that are just veggies and have big chunks of avocado in them. I've also used those imitation crab meat sticks... Sounds gross, but I think they are super yummy. (BUT if you buy these, make sure to use them in like three days after you open the package. They go bad really fast). You can also used cooked shrimp - i've never done this, but I've bought tempura shrimp rolls at restaurants, so I don't see why you couldn't use shrimp to make them.
Try California Rolls. No raw seafood in those.
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srschaffer1 wrote: »So, I'm finding myself wanting to try sushi again. Problem is: I can't eat raw sushi. It's always been a problem for me. Does anyone have any suggestions for sushi for me?
I know here you can get cook salmon, tuna and chicken cali rolls. Also, look up sushi sandwiches. You can make those with tinned tuna, smoked salmon, etc., so you shouldnt have a problem with that.0 -
I get the shrimp California rolls which are good. I think there is also a shrimp salad one I've seen. They also make spicy shrimp and crab Cali rolls as well as tofu/ vegetarian roll. And that's just here in my Podunk southwestern US town grocery store; I'm sure there are so many more varieties out there. Raw fish is an ingredient in a segment of what we define as sushi; there are many types that don't touch raw fish with a ten foot pole 0
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I know I said I wouldn't be doing bentos for a while due to pre-planned lunch events, but I have been getting so off-track with my diet the past week that I had to really plan out my food in advance. Lunch is provided by my office tomorrow, but I put together a bento for dinner tomorrow so that I know what I am going to eat and I know that I will stick to something healthy.
I found a half-used box of whole wheat lasagna noodles in the pantry, so I made a bunch of spinach-filled lasagna roll ups. (That's the weird tomato-y noodley looking thing in the small box). Also, strawberries and a salad with tomato and feta.0 -
So you made cannelloni then (the rolled up version of lasagne)?Narcissora wrote: »I found a half-used box of whole wheat lasagna noodles in the pantry, so I made a bunch of spinach-filled lasagna roll ups. (That's the weird tomato-y noodley looking thing in the small box). Also, strawberries and a salad with tomato and feta.
I think its great idea; were the pieces firm enough to just pick up with a fork by the time you ate it (ie, no knife/spoon required)?
Monday bento. Hopefully I wont be working late nights this week, so for the first time in ages I should have a full week of bentos at work. Yay!
Today's is two onigiri (i mooshed up an umeboshi with some mirin, and mixed it through the rice with the shiso furikake), some mini snags cooked with a spicy sauce glaze and a kale coleslaw mix that I impulse purchased at the supermarket. Totals 550 Cals. There's also my yoghurt and some starburst (another impulse buy - I went shopping when I was hungry ) to have for brekky/snacks.
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mangrothian wrote: »So you made cannelloni then (the rolled up version of lasagne)? I think its great idea; were the pieces firm enough to just pick up with a fork by the time you ate it (ie, no knife/spoon required)?
I thought cannelloni used a specific type of pasta? Maybe not. I don't do Italian often, so if it isn't spaghetti, chances are I might not know what it is. But yes, I ate my pasta creation with a fork only
Also, I looked for umeboshi at Wegmans (they have a pretty good Asian food section, considering it is just a regular grocery store), but I couldn't find it. I'm really curious because you use them a lot, and I want to try them out.
Also also, can you please pass an orange starburst over to me?0 -
Narcissora wrote: »mangrothian wrote: »So you made cannelloni then (the rolled up version of lasagne)? I think its great idea; were the pieces firm enough to just pick up with a fork by the time you ate it (ie, no knife/spoon required)?
I thought cannelloni used a specific type of pasta? Maybe not. I don't do Italian often, so if it isn't spaghetti, chances are I might not know what it is. But yes, I ate my pasta creation with a fork only
Also, I looked for umeboshi at Wegmans (they have a pretty good Asian food section, considering it is just a regular grocery store), but I couldn't find it. I'm really curious because you use them a lot, and I want to try them out.
Also also, can you please pass an orange starburst over to me?
You can either make cannelloni by rolling up lasagne sheets, or by buying the pre-made tubes. As to the umeboshi, they're something that I only ever seem to find at specialty asian grocers (the English term is pickled plum fyi). I do use them a lot, but I do warn you that they are a very sour, acquired taste. I love them, but they're not for everybody.
My daddy always said I was too sweet, so I guess I need sour stuff to balance me out My husband on the other hand, tells me sour is as sour does
And I'll only give you the orange starburst if you exchange it for a yellow one...
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So you are sweet AND sour; people love that combo!
My lunch today:
Layer one: green chile sausage, olives, grapes and mango
Layer two: corn and kale/cabbage salad with white cheese and shrimp. Served with honey red wine vinaigrette
Happy Monday all!
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It took a really long time, but I packed my boyfriend a smurf themed bento when they finally launched a game he'd been working on (ios programmer). Can't find a picture, but I'll keep looking and post it if I do. The smurf wasn't blue, he was brown because he was made of chicken flavoured quinoa. I cut a provolone slice to be his clothing. Cut up a chicken breast to look like a house shape. Background of Kale.
The colours were wrong, but the loves was there and he had a nice healthy salad. All he had to do was cut up the chicken breast and mix it all up.
I fell in love with bento a few years back. Started with a hot dog octopus (easy and awesome. Cephalopods are my favourite) and never made lunch the same again.0 -
Okay, today's lunch and snack bento: Snacks are a somewhat smooshed bunny egg, roasted almonds and strawberries. Lunch is broccoli, jasmine rice, pork dumplings & two green tea milk caramels (the things that look like green Starburst) . Both are kind of on lighter side today as I am expecting a big dinner tonight.
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wow I need to do this or portion control!!! It is also so visually pleasing to the eye.0
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wow I need to do this or portion control!!! It is also so visually pleasing to the eye.
It's quite fun actually. Since we're limited to how much we can fit in our box, it limits the calories (somewhat automatically) and by making it pretty and with variety it helps keep you sated.
Grab a tupperware/gladware and give it a go? It doesn't hurt to try
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