5/26/11 - Chinese Takeout

I was much too lazy last night to cook. So I opted to try this Chinese food place near work. Very reasonable prices, and rather yummy food. So that made its way to my lunch today; white rice, pork and broccoli and two fried wontons.

Two things about this lunch: 1. I know it's not overly healthy. But it's food! 2. There's meat in it. Yeah... it was fun going vegetarian for a while, but the whole reason I made the switch is starting to fail. In my own kind of twisted logic, I went vegetarian so I could actually meet my calorie levels, which were about half of what they needed to be (my apetite is not one of my strongest points). And this little mental ploy worked rather well. But it's not working anymore, try as I may, and I am getting a bit restless of my meal options, so I might start featuring meat more often in my lunches. Yay.

5/25/11 - Stirfry and cheese cubes

This bento contains cabbage, carrot and broccoli stirfried, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and alternating blocks of pepperjack and cheddar cheeses. Yum. I actually woke up very early and cooked the stirfry in the morning, together with the eggs, and I've been wanting cheese cubes for a while (strange craving, eh?), so this bento came to be. Nothing especial or pretty, sorry.

5/18/11 - Tuna salad

Well, the lighting on this one is completely off...

But the contents of this bento are rice onigiri, boiled egg and tuna pasta salad. Normally done with elbow pasta, I ran out of it, so in comes the mini shells. Handy, eh?

Also, have I mentioned that about 90% of my lunches include a side of yogurt with granola or an apple (or other fruits), or both? I just cant fit them on the specific boxes, so I rarely photograph them together. They normally go as my 4pm snack, or if I'm specially hungry (like yesterday), as a dessert for lunch.

5/17/11 - Pre-vacation lunches

Oh yikes, have I really been that busy?

I am going on vacation starting Thursday through Monday (so no lunch for those days, at least not in bento form), and have to get a lot of stuff done at work... a lot. I have been sending photos to my blogger, but I just realized I hadnt written anything about them. Oops. Sorry!

But let's get right to it. This is today's lunch. This is what i call an "I have no clue what I was thinking" lunch. It contains salsa, carrots, broccoli, cheese (pepperjack and mild cheddar), rice and coleslaw. Yeah. I still am not sure what was going on with me this morning. Been in one of them moods... but I am happy to comment that the salsa did not spill all over the place.

Can't find a photo for yesterday, but it contained pasta with veggie stirfry.

On Friday, I had rice, tomatoes and some scrambled eggs with onion and tomatoes, as well as a salad on the lower end made of romaine, tomatoes, feta cheese, and some olive oil/vinegar dressing:

For Thursday, I had bowtie pasta, scrambled eggs, peppers and carrots:

5/11/11 - Sleeping Cat

Not really proud of how this one came out, but I tried!

Below is bowtie pasta with tomatoes, and above is a sleeping cat cut out from mild cheddar cheese and pepper jack cheeses with cucumber detailing.

This morning I was laying in bed thinking about switching the time on my alarm clock again because I think it’s getting me up too early. I actually ended up just laying on the bed for about half hour more because I didn't want to get up. I thought about a nap, and so came the napping cat.

This was hugely impromptu. I had the image in my mind of a yellow cat with a white tail and white ears sleeping soundly. So I cut up some cheese. If I had more time, I probably would’ve made it more presentable, but all in all, this took a good half hour to prepare (including making breakfast). Maybe I’ll retry it again later when I feel more confident.

Thanks for the get-well wishes!

5/10/11 - Potato Medley

I'm still alive! Wow, I had never been that sick in my life, or for that long, so that absolutely threw way too many things off the window. I was in a cooking ban for a rather longer time than I'd like to admit, but I am hoping that's now in the past. It's so hard to get back into a routine when it has been shaken upside down.

Yesterday it was a no-cook day, as I only ate empanadas I had made a few weeks prior. Those things are so forgiving, and they last so much. Either as dough or as finished product, they can sit for a good week and still be perfectly good.

As for lunch today, I still havent finished inspecting the damage of the two weeks being sick (bye bye rice, again!), nor finished making a complete grocery shopping run, so I have carrots and broccoli with a potato vegetable medley microwavable side.