67.

mine!

Lid: Chocolate pocky
Top: Blackberries, pineapple on skewers, sour cream, babybel cheese
Bottom: Pepperoni hot pocket
Sidecar: Tangerine, babybel cheese, turkey pepperoni, bunny egg, salt in the apple

sixty-one.

Tight seal box: creamy spinach + spaghetti, chicken, sauteed zucchini
Top: tangerine, apple slice, lettuce, celery, bunny egg
Bottom: apple slices, mozzerella cheese
Lid: assorted dark chocolates + fork
Outside boxes: little pecan pie.

I found this pecan pie at wal-mart for 58 cents. i had never had pecan pie before and i thought i'd try it. pretty damn tasty.

57.

Swiss chicken in side container
salad in big lock&lock w/ bleu cheese dressing in small container
tangerine segments, chocolate chip cookie.

56 - easter! bunnies oh my!

top: spiral ham sliced, rolled, peeled tangerine cutie, few strawberries sliced onto skewers.
bottom: baby carrots, italian dressing in the orange cup, celery, cherry tomato, ranch dressing in the divider cup
tight seal: romaine leaves w/ tulip cheese cutouts, cherry tomatoes and grilled cheese bunnies


I kinda burnt the sandwiches but thats because when I went to turn the pan on to heat up, I accidentally turned it to high instead of like 4 or 5 on the dial setting. Whoops. This was really yummy, even though the sandwiches were cold by the time I got to eat it ):

33 + 34

for momma.

Top: Broccoli, ranch dip in the orange sauce cup, black grapes
Bottom: Egg salad sandwiches in hearts and stars, tangerine for filler

So my mother was going to a church thing today, and I decided to let her use my box. She was originally going to make some egg salad and take some rice crackers to eat them with, but then I volunteered to make her lunch for her, and she happily agreed.

for me for lunch today.

Left: Pan fried potstickers
Top Right: Tangerine
Top Bottom: Hot dog chunks, ketchup in the kiwi container

I just felt like making a bento for me today, and all we had was the lock&lock containers, since Mom has my box for her thing, I decided to just throw some things from the freezer and fridge together.

St. Patrick's Day! [ 30 + 31 ]

for erika.

Clockwise: Bunny and star eggs, star peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, kiwi slices, tangerine

Yup, that's right. My best friend Erika went to school with me today. It was pretty rockin'. Although she just ended up eating the yolks of the eggs and I ate the whites. Since she didn't really want eggs. I did get some red white and orange in for St. Patrick's Day though, which I am quite proud of!

my bento today!

Main tier [ right ]: Hot dog chunks, ketchup in the kiwi sauce cup, salt in the apple for the eggs and avocados, craisins, fruit by the foot
Side car [ left ]: Avocado chunks, bear and heart shaped eggs, tangerine, grape tomatoes for fillers

Unfortunately after class, I was still hungry, so Erika and I ended up going to the Subway on campus and getting lunch and I got coffee [ I was falling asleep in Psychology AND World Religions ]. I wish I could get my bentos to be more filling. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated.

twenty nine.

my dinner (:

Top tier: Tangerine, apples, tuna salad
Bottom tier: Romaine leaves, heart egg, bear egg, grape tomatoes and salt in the apple.
Bottom left corner: Chunky peanut butter for apples

Well, my mom had hard boiled some eggs and I finally got the chance to use my egg molds today! I was so excited, because they were so cute! I hate to eat them though. But, they are eggs after all. I felt like bentoing for dinner tonight, and so I did, except I didn't make one for Erika, since I kinda just didn't feel like it. I just put her food on a plate and such.

I didn't plan on eating the lettuce, really. I just wanted a filler, but I ended eating it with the tuna salad. It was pretty dang tasty.

my favorite things - 27.

for a thing at my mom's church. [ explanation to follow ]

Left to Right: Cheese shapes [ tulip, bear, bunny, bird ], fruit by the foot, craisins, mint herb tea, clementine tangerine, oreos, 3 musketeers mint, more cheese shapes [ heart, bunny, star ]
Not pictured: tube of blue glitter I placed in the box after I shot this photo.

Okay, so my parents are Latter-Day Saints [ LDS, Mormon, whatever you'd like to call them ]. And the ladies have their own group called Relief Society [ I have NO idea why it's called that, but just go along, kay? ], and they had a birthday of sorts. They have a dinner [ this time it was various salads - regular lettuce kind, pasta, fruit ], and you bring a gift. And this year's theme was "my favorite things". So for the gift you have to bring your favorite things [ and less than $10, of course, but I think I might have spent more than that, but ah, what the hell ] and wrap them up.

So of COURSE I decide to do bento, since it's SO much fun (: It didn't help that I decided to go last minute [ like, 5pm that night, and the dinner started at 6.30pm ]. But, mom and I ran down to Wal-Mart and luckily found those lock-and-lock boxes that most people on bentolunch rave about. I also found a 3-set that I can use for Dad's lunches that have a smaller square and round one with a sandwich-size box.

So I get home at like, 6.25 and run in the house to throw my box together. I wanted to put things in that if they kinda weren't refridgerated, it wouldn't be too big of a deal. I mean, I think the cheese could hold up pretty well, since it normally does in stuff like sandwiches and the like. So I figured ah, what the hell.

I also got a purple stuffed lamb to put in with it. It was SO adorable. Luckily they had another one [ bought at Dollar Tree ] and Mom bought it for me, since it was so cute (:

25.

mine, finally!

Top: Tangerine slices, apple chunks and half a kiwi
Bottom: Cream cheese/ham sandwich pinwheels, string cheese chunks, craisins

I felt like having a whole bunch of fruit today. Mostly because if I had veggies, i'd have to cook them [ which was more work than I had time for this morning ] or eat them with ranch dip, and i'm trying to eat healthier. And the ranch dip we have is made with mayo, a ranch packet, some milk and a bit of lemon juice. That's not exactly calorie-free.

Note to self: Do NOT, WHATEVER you do, drink Coke Zero EVER AGAIN! Especially without food. It will fuck up your stomach and your brain and give you the nastiest headache EVER.

I had to go and buy subway just to calm my stomach down since there wasn't enough food in my box to keep my stomach from going crazy and the room spinning. This is not a good sign. Never again, my friends. Never again will I drink that crap. And diet/calorie free sodas are worse for you than regular sugary sodas. It's so horrible.

So my dad still has a lunch for tomorrow, since he went out surveying instead of staying in the office today, so he's just going to have it for lunch tomorrow! And, he's even coming home for lunch to eat it, since he's working about 15 minutes away instead of an hour away. He also won't need one for Thursday since he's working out of the office on friday as well.

bento 23 today (:

for moi ;D

Lid: String cheese, my cute clickety click fork! (:
Sidecar: Tangerine slices, ham rolls, banana oatmeal to go bar
Sealable container: Pizza mac+cheese

Okay, so I threw this quickly together this morning since I kind of woke up late [ well late enough for me to rush make my bento and try and get out the door to catch the earlier, two-car train ] I dumped the pizza mac+cheese onto a plate that i used to cut the ham up on for the ham rolls, threw in the microwave for a couple of minutes and sprinkled some extra cheese on top [ it was melted by the time I ate it 45-50 minutes later ]. This was the last thing I did before I went upstairs to shower, and honestly, it wasn't too bad slightly cold/room temp.
I threw the ham, tangerine and oatmeal bar together while I was making breakfast, so that wasn't too bad. Wondering how I made that pizza mac+cheese?

Pizza Mac+Cheese:
1 box kraft mac+cheese
1 can diced tomatoes [ I used petit diced tomatoes. They're basically just cut into a smaller dice ]
1 can sliced BLACK olives
2 heaping tablespoons [ okay, more like 4 heaping tablespoons, lol ] ricotta cheese
some hamburger, cooked with garlic salt, broken up
small handful of parmesean cheese
a couple handfuls of some sort of shredded cheese [ I used a Mexican 4-cheese blend, its what we've got ]
Butter according to mac and cheese box
milk/cream according to mac and cheese box
italian seasoning [ like, a half-tablespoon or so, just throw in however much you'd like ]

Ok, so while the noodles are cooking, pre-cook the hamburger with some garlic salt and maybe a bit of onion powder, if you've got it. Once the hamburger is almost done, cook the noodles however you like, and drain, finishing the hamburger and then turning the pan off while you prepare the other stuff. Leave the stove ON [ unless you've got a gas stove and can reheat the pan easily ]. Throw in the can of diced tomatoes. and let cook down a bit. Throw in the italian seasoning and stir. Throw in the parmesean cheese and the cooked hamburger. Stir. Put the butter in for the amount of mac+cheese you're cooking, and then put the noodles back in the pan [ the stove is still on, make sure the noodles don't stick though ] and combine with the tomato/hamburger mixture. Throw in your can of olives [ or if you don't like them, find something else! ] Add the milk. I personally start out with heavy whipping cream, as I like mine thick and creamy, and thin out as needed with milk. Dump the cheese packet into the macaroni mix and stir in until it's mixed in. Add the ricotta cheese and mix in until nice and creamy and all melted and stuff into the mac mix. Then put the shredded cheese in and mix until combined and melty.

You can also throw in pepperoni, sliced hard salami, whatever you'd like. It's mostly preference and what you've got. If you've got italian sausage, you could honestly throw that in too, and that'd probably be so delish!

I ate a heaping bowful of this for dinner last night and I still had 4 roughly 1-1 1/2 cup servings of this stuff, just perfect for my bento box! So it really is an awesome thing to make in advance and reheat later for quick and easy starch and protien. Although you may want to have more protien in this, since it's mostly carbs.

twenty-two.

for my papa.

Left to Right: Chocolate chip cookie, Shepherder bread, tangerine slices, grape tomatoes, baby carrots, ranch for carrots and tomatoes, butter, and my mom's lasagna.

All in all, a fairly easy and quick bento to throw together. My mom suggested that I give my dad lasagna for lunch, since he doesn't eat dinner due to acid reflux problems.

He also said that yesterday's lunch was about the best i've made yet, so I think that will be a future recipie to make for him, as well as me. I've been considering going to work with him when I have a day off. Maybe on spring break or something? I dunno.