Using Bento Boxes for lunches.
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missthang11205 wrote: »This is my first bento box. On the bottom is mixed field greens and deviled eggs. On the side of that is a lite ginger salad dressing and pumpkin seed. Above that a tomato and cucumber salad. Last but not least green beans, beets and Japanese purple sweet potato. What do you guys think?
Those devilled eggs look awesomely delicious!
Why can't you get yourself a box of your own and make your lunch at the same time with similar fillings? I know at least one person on this thread who makes a bento for herself, the hubby and the kids all at the same time.If I did not have to make lunches for my children everyday I would make bentos for myself. I use Planetbox lunch boxes for my children which are bento style and have separate inserts you can buy to further separate food. It has completely changed how my children eat and they eat all of their lunch now.
Monday lunch looks like most of my lunches from last week, but with bulgogi sauce on the meatballs so I'm not going to bother posting a pic. Today's though, is veg (pan grilled zucchini and red pepper on spinach that was cooked with garlic and ginger), pork loin and rice with a shiitake seasoning and an umeboshi.
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"This is my first bento box. On the bottom is mixed field greens and deviled eggs. On the side of that is a lite ginger salad dressing and pumpkin seed. Above that a tomato and cucumber salad. Last but not least green beans, beets and Japanese purple sweet potato. What do you guys think?"
I love the idea of putting deviled eggs on top of salad greens!
Thanks. At first I just had the eggs but I wanted it to look pretty. It was really yummy. I mixed the pumpkin seed and ginger dressing with the salad. It was surprisingly filling. That and the cucumber tomatoe salad were all I ate and I was full.
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SpecialKitty7 wrote: »missthang11205 wrote: »
This is my first bento box. On the bottom is mixed field greens and deviled eggs. On the side of that is a lite ginger salad dressing and pumpkin seed. Above that a tomato and cucumber salad. Last but not least green beans, beets and Japanese purple sweet potato. What do you guys think?
Looks great! So...gotta ask. What's a purple sweet potato? Does it taste different than an orange one?
Thanks. Firstly I love purple and all purple food. But yeah, it's sweeter than yams, at least to me. Give them a try.
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mangrothian wrote: »Those devilled eggs look awesomely delicious!
Thanks. I haven't made them in a while. They came out pretty good. I need to start cooking some more.
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Thursday bento. Today is a long run day, so extra protein. Meatballs in tonkatsu sauce, a bunny egg that looks like it has myxo, veg (cabbage, broccoli, carrot) and rice with tunamayo furikake.
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mangrothian that looks so pretty and yummy!0
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HarvestLand - Boneless Chicken Breast, 125 gram 132
Generic - Jasmin Rice, Raw, 128 g 448
Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup 55
total 635
seaweed and the rice sprinkles - cant spell the f word
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mangrothian wrote: »@colejkeene They're so pretty! I have the same box as your orange one, but in pink. It was my first Bento box, and even if it cracks I don't think I could bring myself to throw it out. You've also made me want to make kinpira again.
I'm sure your husbands workmates are just jelly if the best thing they can pick on is your husbands lunchbox. My husband likes my Bentos, but he and his co workers actually work from an office in our garage, so I don't make him one.
Also, do you you make your own furikake, or do you buy it? There's only a few pre-packaged ones I can eat since I'm msg sensitive (lips swelling up like you've have collagen for a few hours is NOT a look I go for).
I also had a look through the allthingsforsale site, and I might do some ordering from there, but I'll have to be careful not to get carried away. Quite a few of the things that I've seen there I can get for less in my local Daiso store. Those moustache picks though...
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I have a three tier tiffin box from sostrene grene. I wish I had also bought the two tier one for shorter days. I have a tier at 10.30, 12.30 and 3. The first is usually my breakfast, oatmeal or rice with yogurt and fruit, or sometimes eggs, the second is dinner left overs or a freshly made salad, the last is my afternoon snack, often cheese, fish sticks, something quick to eat that will keep me till dinner time. It's really nice to have most of my day's eating decisions pre made.0
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aussie_girl_del_runner_5 wrote: »
hahahamangrothian wrote: »a bunny egg that looks like it has myxo,
Del, I'm glad someone here was able to giggle at that. I kinda forgot that myxo'd rabbits were only an Australian thing.I have a three tier tiffin box from sostrene grene. I wish I had also bought the two tier one for shorter days. I have a tier at 10.30, 12.30 and 3. The first is usually my breakfast, oatmeal or rice with yogurt and fruit, or sometimes eggs, the second is dinner left overs or a freshly made salad, the last is my afternoon snack, often cheese, fish sticks, something quick to eat that will keep me till dinner time. It's really nice to have most of my day's eating decisions pre made.
I've seen some awesome 3 tier boxes, but your issue is the reason I haven't bought them. I just add in snack boxes when I do want them, and leave them out when I don't. Otherwise I'm inclined to always fill them with food that I may not really need.0 -
furikake- thanks f word buy it.
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Hi everyone! I don't have a bento box yet. I am just a bento lurker. I check this thread often. I did make some sushi inspired lunches this week and wanted to share. Not bento but different. I need to get a box I think I could pack more food. LOL! soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2016/07/masonable-mondays-1-sushi-inspired.html
This is crab stick, cucumber, avocado, furikake and rice crackers.
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Hi everyone! I don't have a bento box yet. I am just a bento lurker. I check this thread often. I did make some sushi inspired lunches this week and wanted to share. Not bento but different. I need to get a box I think I could pack more food. LOL! soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2016/07/masonable-mondays-1-sushi-inspired.html
This is crab stick, cucumber, avocado, furikake and rice crackers.
I love how you're storing the avo and rice crackers with the mason jar; that's awesome. I was trying to figure out how the Avo was defying gravity, then it clicked.
I think the taller mason jars would actually be a really good way to store California or rice paper rolls, providing you don't pack them so tight you can get them out again.0 -
@mangrothian Thanks! I have found that chop sticks help a lot to fish things out of the jar. I packed dumplings this way and it worked great. It was so good I needed a bigger jar.0
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Maybe I'll have to get a mason jar and try a vertically layered bento. Hmmmm....0
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I realized I didn't have a lunch plan this morning, so it was frozen bento stash to the rescue this morning. Jasmine rice, shrimp and edamame. No fancy box today because I didn't have the time to thaw everything to get it in nicely.
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Family Gourmet - Banana Chips, 0.33 cup (30 g) 170
Raisins - Snack Box, 1 oz 90 22
Great Value - Apricots, Dried, 6 pieces (40 g) 103
Gremmway - Baked Carrots, 0.5 cup 29 7
Generic - Baked Sweet Potatoe, 33.25 g 29
Starkist - Kid's Creations Bacon Ranch Flavored Light Tuna, 1 pouch 2.6 oz (74g) 110
total calories 5311
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