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Simple lunch. A small sandwich with deli turkey and cheese slices, some mayo, cherries and carrot/broccoli combo. I think I have one from every food group!

8/24/11

I am pretty sure I am breaking some unspoken Chinese food rule, but... I was half heartedly surprise to discover I was out of rice. I really, truly do not recall ever running out of rice. But it wasn't in the pantry, so I must have used it.

Either way, dinner was good. I had bought a while back some sweet and sour sauce, and I had some chicken tenders, so guess what? Sweet and sour chicken! With peppers and broccoli. Yummy. And mashed potatoes... yeah. No rice. And the cherries are back! Wee. I still love this box a lot.

8/11/11

For today's lunch we have some leftover rice with the last of the ground turkey (or so I hope!), carrots and cherries.

But I am guessing I'm getting slightly spoiled with eating so much fruit recently, that I packed a snack bento with orange slices and more cherries. Yum. (Also, I was hungry by 4 yesterday...)

8/10/11

Slightly (VERY) tired today, so my lunch isn't much of a sight. I wasn't even going to photograph it, but then I thought, you know... I'm trying to log the lunches I pack. They wont always be pretty, they wont always be balanced, but they will be lunch. So there will be good, bad and uglies. I think this one falls between the last two portions. It is still yummy and light, which I wanted. Yes, I need to hunt down veggies ASAP. Nothing is on sale around here for weeks (no veggies anyway), which is kind of disappointing for it being summer...

So today I have 1 boiled egg, some boiled plantains and more cherries. These cherries seem like they will last until the end of the summer, at this rate.

8/9/11

I must say I like this new box, mainly because of the divisions. Though I am filling them with fruit right now (not that I'm complaining! I was missing having fruit IN the lunch box rather than on the side), it makes it visually appealing and easy to sort/serve.

On today's lunch, we have some rice and ground turkey with peppers, then some cherries, cut up oranges and some pepper/carrot mix.

I did find the box is very deep, so I put only a bit of rice in the bottom. Still, I very much like it.

8/8/11

Sorry, I have been terribly unresponsive. I was on vacation the last week of July (15hr road trip each way plus a convention on the weekend) and that barely allowed time for food, let alone, packed food. I'll plan a lot better next time, because stops along the way are only fun if you're going to somewhere scenic... Or an actual destination.

Anyway! Last week I was dead busy with the whole return to work, and although this week is already showing a LOT of promise of being one of the worst in my career, I still have to eat, so here's what I packed today in my new Lock & Lock box:

Spaguetti, watermelon, cantalope and oranges. Not very creative or very pretty, but I will get to that soon... Hope everyone's doing great and can't wait for fall! I, for one, I'm tired of this heat. :)

Especial thanks to Silverwing at Scrumptious Bento for sharing the coupon for Lock&Lock. They had such cute selections it was hard to pick, but I'm glad I did.