Easter Leftovers

Easter Leftovers: Deviled Egg and Green Bean Casserole (which wasn't as good cold as I thought it would be)

Spring Roll Monday

Mmm, discovered that a chinese take-out place just up the block has the best spring rolls! We bought half a ton and froze some to appear in today's lunch:

Simple lunch:

• 2 spring rolls from Sweet House
• red beet egg
• green grapes
• strawberries
• and before I left I added almonds, unpictured

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• Leftover breakfast pizza
• strawberries
• red beet egg
• goldfish
• carrots
• thin mint for dessert
  

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Oh no, numbering! ;)

I took lunch in a smaller box today, probably could have organized things a little better.

• Leftover Pot Pie
• Red Beet Egg
• Carrots
• Strawberry
• A little cup of jello for dessert (not pictured)

Hit with the Sick Stick.

Yep, I have been ^^ I pack less when I'm sick, because I use my packing-time as sleeping-time, so here's the latest:

• Leftover Lasagna
• Carrots
• Grapes
• Salad
• Red Beet Egg
• Almonds and a thin mint cookie for desert

Posted to What's for Lunch Wednesday (totally forgot it was wednesday until I noticed it on my blog feed....)

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Laura

Omnomnom.

(ran out of creative titles)

Strawberries and grapes, cup of pears, lettuce divider, tortilla strips, fried rice (with peas, carrots, broccol, onions) and half a baked egg roll...someone else ate the other half this morning when I wasn't looking! O.0

Posted to What's for lunch Wednesday.

everything but the kitchen sink?

Contents: 'baby carrots' (found the two giants on the left in our newest bag of baby carrots...I think maybe they're mom&dad carrots instead), salad with last part of the egg roll, tortilla strips, celery, almonds, broccoli, and French dressing. Sugar free chocolate pudding for dessert.

Ahhh!

Going back to school after a five day weekend (the fifth day being an unplanned snow day) is not fun. What is fun? Lunch.

Contents: Salad underneath Red Beet eggs and part of a veggie egg roll we discovered at the grocery store (pack of 5 to bake), a layer of leftover mac&cheese, a cup of pears. Soup on the side in a thermos.

Question: is it just my thermos, or is there a trick to keeping things warm inside? (Or are my expectations too high?)

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Laura

Linked to What's for Lunch Wednesday.

Return of the Bento

Meatless Meal: Peanut butter and Marshmallow fluff on hot dog roll, salad, grapes and strawberries, pasta salad, leftover chips.


Meatless Meal: Cheese-filled tortelini, strawberries and grapes, granola bar, carrots, rice and sauce.

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When I told my mother I had decided to be vegetarian, she was good about it. The other night we made lasagna, and she told me she had planned to make a little meatless portion of it. I was very impressed that she was willing to do that, as I hadn't been expecting much.

However, not five minutes later, she reminded me that we have TUNA in the cupboard, and keeps telling me that I should take it for lunch....

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Laura

PS - I'm loving the fruit. For V-day, my sister got an edible arrangement, and we're all slowly picking away at it. It's better than anything we've been getting at the store!

Linked to What's for Lunch Wednesday.

The No-Name Bento

It has been a long day, my brain is on the frits (fritz? Is this even a word? That's how bad it is) and so today is a no-name bento.

My lunch, on top of a department store ad (woops. I woke up later than usual.)

Top: Turkey/Romaine/Cheddar scraps roll-ups. Note to self: More romaine next time. We've been testing out different brands of turkey, and I don't particularly like this one! Peach, Broccoli, Red Beet Egg
Bottom: Leftover pasta that wouldn't fit in yesterday's lunch, salad.
Spaghetti sauce and dressing on the side.

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8 days till school starts! Where did this summer go?!?

Another two-for-one special

Going backwards and starting with today's bento:

We made meatballs for dinner one night in the crockpot, and I asked to leave a couple out so I could put them in a lunch. Then I made some penne the night before, and put the two together with a little container of spaghetti sauce on the side.
Also in this bento:

• Bisquick biscuits (at this rate, I'll be out by the end of band camp)
• One of the last few egg rolls still in the freezer
• Red beet egg (We're not going to make it to market this week! I'm so upset, I love packing these in my lunch!)
• lots of grapes and an apple on the side

Now yesterday's:

In this lunch:

• salad with leftover chicken, some broccoli and carrot flowers
• bisquick biscuits
• apple, some cherries, almonds, red beet egg

4 days down, 4 to go! I have the sock tan to prove it.

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Clean out the fridge Bento

Towards the end of the week, it becomes very necessary to start cleaning out all the leftovers/anything that would go bad if it stuck around for too much longer.



















In this lunch:

• leftover crouton chicken (so good! probably not good for you though ;0)
• the end of a dole salad bag with dressing
• grapes and carrot sticks

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Band Camp Bento

AKA I'm-in-a-hurry-'cause-if-I'm-late-for-camp-they'll-KILL-me-so-I'd-better-get-this-bento-done. ;)

Still, I love packing a lunch and actually TAKING it somewhere!

Inside:

• Tuna on a sandwich round
• leftover egg roll (which was still mostly frozen when I put it in, but thawed out by the time we ate)
• baby carrots, grapes, and some almonds

In another small container, I also took some salad, and the only fork that would fit inside was this cute bunny fork! Dressing in the blue-lidded container.

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Also check out What's for Lunch Wednesday for more lunches!

Muffin Tin Monday

This is my first Muffin Tin Monday. I toyed with the idea of it since I began making bentos (a lot of mommy bento bloggers post MTMs) but this was the first time I seriously attempted. It will definitely not be the last!

I used a mini muffin tin since it was just for me, and inside I had:

• a leftover bisquick biscuit (say that five times fast)
• some failed mac n cheese (Note to self: basil is not good in macaroni and cheese, and milk is your friend) (edit: I made some more to see if I could perfect the recipe...and this time I added too much milk.)
• cheese flowers, with some great cheddar I got at the market (the orange pieces)
• turkey roll-ups (another market find!)
• baked tortilla chips. I burnt them. I'm not having a good oven day.

So, the next two mondays I'm at band camp all day, and after that...school (ahhhh!). But hopefully I can still do some sort of muffin-tin breakfast type meal?

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In other news, the bento box I ordered has officially been shipped out from Japan. They say shipping can take anywhere from 2-5 weeks, depending on where you live. In order to recieve the box before school starts, it has to come in 3 weeks, 3 days. Yikes. Cross your fingers for me!

Getting the hang of this?

My third attempt is my favorite so far! I read on another blog (or maybe several, I've lost track) that some people add food coloring to the water they make rice in. Usually for themed lunches, but I figured the last time I made rice it looked so...boring! So I added some color :)

In this lunch:

• Food colored rice with some left over plain chicken
• Leftover egg rolls (home made! but also deep fried, so still not very healthy, hehe) cut in slices
• Baby Carrots
• Animal Crackers under Veggie sticks
• Grapes, yum!

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In other news:

I don't really make any bentos over the weekend, because I often eat with one or both of my parents, depending on how busy we are. So, weekend posts will either be sans bento, or bento for special occasions/catch-up bentos ;)

And perfect opportunity for actually getting a packed lunch out of the house: Band Camps!

I do not wear a plume or play an instrument, but I do spin a flag (you are never ever allowed to tell a member of our color guard that they 'twirl' anything; they will hurt you with their six foot flag poles).

Very first, perfectly imperfect bento!

My first bento attempt was not so much a cute success as it was an 'oh thank goodness it didn't turn out worse than this!'

Still, I'm proud of my very first bento, the first of many to come.

A simple lunch of...

• plain white rice
• leftover shrimp
• strawberries (rare for us, since they're not in season here yet)
• carrots
• veggie sticks - which aren't actually made of vegetables... :(
• lettuce from the garden to keep everything seperate

Happy Bentoing!