Keeping Up!

I have two lunches from the past week to add. They're very similar, because we were running out of everything else towards the end of the week!

Main dish: leftover pot pie, pizza rolls (thirty seconds in the microwave, who could say no on a day you're running late?), and leftover spaghetti.

Other: apple, carrot sticks, granola bar, wheat thins, red beet egg, little rolos

In the second picture I accidentally snapped my little ice packs too, so there you go. I use straps to hold my bento box together, and I just use the straps to secure all the little ice packs to the outside. They work extremely well, but if you need to keep something cold more than 4-5 hours, I'd say go for something more heavy duty. They start to lose their cold by the time lunch comes around five hours later for me.

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leftover dayyyy

Last week was a lazy lunch week, because it was homecominggg :) I'm wishing I would have tried to do a lunch to match spirit days (mismatch monday, nerd day, clown day, school colors day, and class color day), but it was one insaaaane week, what with being sick and getting ready for the big homecoming game (we lost 40 to 0. Yes, forty to ZERO.) and dance.*

Today's lunch wasn't much better. I need to get back to planning. When I get lazy, I stop using my skinny box because it's so much harder to make 'cute' or interesting.

Without further ado...
A little slice of leftover stromboli. They were on sale at the grocery store yesterday, all you have to do is bake them! So easy, so good, so bad for you :) surrounded by salad with grocery store pasta, fish crackers, strawberries, and graham crackers.

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*I know this isn't about bento! But on a side note...a group of us went out to dinner before the homecoming dance, and it was amazing.

Eight of us went to this Japanese place called Fujihana, and it's one of those restaurants where they cook right at your table, so it's basically like dinner and a show ;)

The food was great, our chef was great, it was so much fun and I would love to go back sometime! I wish I had taken more pictures while we were there, but I think most of the ones we snapped were of the guys making funny faces and singing.

One of our friends didn't get any of the chef's puns until the end of the night, but they were making Family Guy references in the car all the way to the dance. That just goes to show you exactly how boys' minds work....

This anecdote completely lost sight of all relevancy.

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Excuse me while I cough up this lung.

Well, I've caught the cold everyone at school has been flinging around. What's my prize? Being sick.

However, there's no better time than when you're sitting in bed crying out 'woe is me' to update tha blog. ;)

Here's a lunch from...Monday. I think.

I'd been feeling icky since last Thursday, thus the abundance of turkey wraps/sandwiches and pasta (comfort fooooddddd) plus a chocolate chip cookie just for kicks.

• turkey wrap
• grocery store-bought pasta salad
• grapes and strawberries
• goldfish, red beet egg, cookie.

Not too shabby, I suppose.

Getting whacked with the sick stick did not throw off my sense of time, so since it is wednesday, this can be my What's For Lunch Wednesday post.

Go see all the other lunches here!

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TGIF lunch

Friday's lunch

Used up the last of the turkey to make the wrap - and it was gooood! red beet egg, carrot sticks, goldfish, macaroni from the freezer stash, and salad.

Quick and easy!

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It's one of those days.

It's one of those days where you keep trying to talk to your Chinese teacher in French, but then you can't remember how to say anything in French 3. Pre-calculus makes no sense, Chemistry is frustrating, and Global Studies makes you want to pull your hair out. (Thank you for teaching me what a mountain is in a 10th grade college prep class, I had forgotten they were pointy.)

deep breaths.... :}

Needless to say, lunch was a welcome distraction.

Turkey sandwiches with little heart cookies on top (cut like that, scraps went into my dad's mouth), carrot sticks, red beet egg, grapes, pasta salad from the grocery store.

Oh well, tomorrow's another day.

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Speaking of tomorrow - hey, this is my What's for lunch Wednesday post :) Check out all the others here!

Ahhh, pizza. Greasy, delicious, pizza.

I wish I was one of those people who look at all junk food/fast food and go ew, why would you put that in your body? There are certain things I could genuinely say that about, but for the most part, I was raised on chicken nuggets and delivery pizza twice a month ;)

So we got pizza this weekend, and I just had to take the extra piece for lunch. Yum!

Really simple lunch. I've had next to no time for planning this week, so everything is going in my green-lidded sandwich box, all simple, quicky and easy things.

leftover pizza (cut in strips and stacked), salad with broccoli, grapes, turkey roll-ups/flowers?

Now, onto Chemistry homework :) Factor labeling, anyone?

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Fruit, fruit, fruit

Late post! I haven't been home since I left for school this morning about 14 hours ago because there was a football game tonight! We lost 31 to 8. Ugh. And on top of that, the band was playing like a hot mess, so the color guard looked like a hot mess...it wasn't a good night! But we did get walking tacos at the snack bar, because you basically have to eat junk at a football game ;)

Anyway, since that has nothing to do with bento, here's my lunch from today:

pancakes leftover from dinner, turkey roll ups, broccoli with some cheddar

grapes, apple, strawberries

We were surprised the strawberries stayed this good so long...we normally get fruit from the market, and it gets ruined within the first 4-5 days, but since I'm in school we don't go to the market anymore and the strawberries from the grocery store have been perfect since last Sunday....Even if they are more expensive.

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Lunch

Ah! I woke up later than usual this morning, so this is a quick, on the go, one shoe on one shoe off lunch :)

Top: Strawberry jam/bread rolls, apple, broccoli, red beet egg
Bottom: Grapes, salad, goldfish

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My Faux School Lunch Bento

In response to the '...why do you eat so healthy?' questions from friends, I decided to make some typical school lunch type foods. Of course, school would never get the budget for chickenless 'chicken' nuggets, but still. A girl can dream.

So this is my 'let's cheat and have chicken nuggets, mac n cheese, and tater tots all in one meal!' bento.

Top: Salad with tater tots (HOLY COW TATER TOTS!)

Bottom: 'Chicken' Nuggets (Morningstar), carrot sticks, broccoli and red beet egg, mac n cheese

I was SO excited when Ore-Ida frozen food was on sale this week at the store, because I have been dying to get my hands on these 'ABC' tater tots. I had dreams of spelling out my name, making an ABC school-themed bento.... But there was only one letter A in the whole bag. Just one. I had to use an upside down V for the other A in my name.

And THEN, I got my tots out of the fridge this morning to put my lunch together (after baking all five letters last night) and found that my R was missing. I was flabbergasted, but had plenty of time to make another....Except there were no more letter Rs in the bag! So I made a B quickly and cut it into 'R' shape.

There are about three Qs, some Zs and Xs...but only one A and one R?

Now I have no clue what words I'm going to make...I could do XYZ instead of ABC :P

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Ah! I almost forgot about What's For Lunch Wednesday! Check out all the lunches here.

The Giraffe with the Broken Neck

Only semi-literally.

Lately I've seen a couple of cute bentos with shapes...but I'm not much for decorating, or free-handing the shapes I don't have in cookie cutters.

But giraffes kept popping up (is that how you make giraffe plural?) so I just thought, what the heck? even if it's not great.

And it wasn't! I wish I would have decorated it better, and between cutting the shapes last night and putting my lunch together this morning the giraffe's neck broke! Ouch. Anyway, final result:

Excuse the bad picture!

Top: Grilled Chicken/lettuce wrap with the cheese giraffe on top, broccoli, red beet egg, checkered apple.

Middle: grapes

Bottom: the other half of the wrap with a slice of strawberry, sliced grapes, salad

A little up close of the giraffe:

So. I don't think shapes are 'my thing.' Maybe I'll just practice! (or get more cookie cutters ;) )

My friends think it's weird that I eat 'healthy' (most of them were having the school offered Domino's pizza today, and trying to dab off the extra grease with napkins. no thanks.) so tomorrow I'm taking morningstar 'chicken' nuggets and a little surprise, for me :)

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