Tuna pasta salad

This was actually lunch from yesterday, but it appears my phone was affected by the network blackout and wasnt sending (or receiving) emails until last night at 7pm.

I had: Tuna pasta salad with lettuce and toasted bread to go along with it. Tryint to get creative as I push back grocery shopping just a few days more...

Chicken noodle soup and 4 piece bento

Yesterday I packed some rice, tamagoyaki with cheese in the middle, the remaining coleslaw and some corn. Then right about lunch time, one of my co-workers had to leave for the day to pick up her son who had gotten sick and was starting to run a fever in school, and she had just prepared a chicken noodle soup. She asked us if we wanted it, because she wasnt going to be able to transport it and didnt want it to go to waste. I volunteered (never say no to free food), so that was my real lunch. Today, it will be yesterday's lunch. I think it worked out just fine.

Mushroom pasta

Here I go again with the whole pasta deal...

Nothing interesting here, besides some alfredo fetuccini, with mushrooms and broccoli, some carrots and tomatoes. I'm also running out of fruit to put on the side. I guess I miss the cherries on sale after all.

Rice and broccoli sides

Nothing really especial. Big delay since I've been between very very boring lunches or eating out for lunch at work (they buy us lunch, and we had two of those in 2 weeks. That had never happened before!). Last night I was working on a project from work and it took me pretty much my whole night. Yes, from 6pm until 10:20. So I left work, picked up some materials, came home, made (reheated) potato, chicken and cheddar broccoli soup and ate that. I also saved a bit and poured over rice for this lunch. Alongside, we have broccoli slaw, tomatoes and carrots and even more broccoli. Yikes. Didn't notice there was so much broccoli involved in this meal!

Mid Sept lunch

I am starting to wonder if it's really my photography vs the foods I am photographing that is sort of breaking my photos.

Anyway, this is breakfast potatoes with onion, ham and mushrooms, some broccoli/cherry tomatoes, and chicken pieces. Really yummy, and very messy looking.

I have to wonder, for whatever reason, I add cinnamon powder to my breakfast potatoes. I add salt and pepper, of course, but I also add cinnamon. Gives it a very nice flavor, I'll admit. The mushrooms were a new thing I was trying, since I had some leftover.

Oh, and by the way... 100 days left before Christmas!

Monday and Tuesday's lunches

Been busy. What can I say? This is Monday's lunch, which contains melon, some pita crisps, rice and stirfried veggies.

And this is today's lunch, made up of steamed veggies, apple chunks, shredded chicken thighs with broccoli, some rice and a itty bitty tiny cherry tomato.

Totally uncute sandwiches

Yup. I just wanted some sandwiches, and I know there was a world of possibilities to make this appealing to the eye. But I didnt.

So, there's two cheese and turkey sandwiches with a little mayo, tons of broccoli and carrots. Yum.

Pre-packed lunch

I had the right intentions this morning... but waking up super extra late didn't help them come to reality. So I am lucky I packed this last night!

It looks a bit empty, which is fine. The pasta is plenty. This is elbow pasta with mushrooms and shredded sausage (and onion and peppers), but it was super creamy, much to my delight. The divided containers have carrots and broccoli. Yum.

Lousy camera bento

And we're back to the whole I-need-a-new-camera... not just because my phone is dying (which is my camera as of right now), or that my photos are getting progressively worst (unexplainable), but that I might be doing more traveling and stuff, and I like to get photos...

I could kill two birds with one stone and get my phone upgrade that I've been planning for a while, but I definitely don't want to pay the $200 that come with it, so... I'll wait and push it out as far as possible. Or at least until the phone breaks. Until then, I'll need to borrow a replacement camera.

Anyway, this is from my parent's house: just some rice and beans with sauce, green grapes, pretzel thins and string cheese. I also added an apple (and two more in the bag, and some oranges...), but only an apple for this lunch. Yum!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. I know I enjoyed it.

Lunch and snacks

Over the hurricane weekend, I went home early and came back with a bunch of food I've been eating as lunches- no need to repack. But yesterday was the end of such provisions, so I am back to going on my own, and here's today's lunch.

Italian sausage and sauce, carrots, broccoli and some rice on the top tier, cherries, granola cereal and yogurt on the bottom tier. I am in love with my snack tier!

Tired-of-dates-as-titles

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.

7/15/11

Ok, so this lunch has not a whole lot of prettyness to it. It's rice with turkey sausage and peppers with carrot details (top) and carrot cake with apple slices (bottom). I had the funniest sugar rush after trying that carrot cake, I knew I had to get some to get me through a Friday workday. It's store bought (sorry, I'm a coward and wont make my own carrot cake yet), but it was super yummy. And melty (I blame the weather!). That's why it looks rather... smooshed in the photo.

Happy weekend, everybody!

PS: I'll be going on a road trip the last week of July, so I probably won't be posting... or maybe I will! But definitely not of food. I know (not really) it's against food-blogger policy to not pack your own meal during a planned trip... but I want to experience some of the local foods, so that's what I'm going for.

7/14/11

You know those days when you're wondering which god is after you this time? Because I refuse to believe that a single God would taunt and go after a single person so often and not get bored and move along. Yeah, that's me yesterday+today. Already. And it's barely early enough for coffee!

Anyway, this lunch would appear to be very familiar to you... if my camera had worked on Tuesday. Which it didn't. So here it is, anew: rotini with some cut deli ham and tomatoes, a side of broccoli with a bit of butter, baby carrots and a boiled egg. Yum yum. Happy Friday-Eve!

7/8/11 - Leftover day!

Die, blindingly bright phone flash camera! *cough* Oh, there you are. Sorry. In today's lunch, I packed the rest of the ground turkey with some rice, broccoli and carrots. Yum, simple, and got rid of some leftovers for me. Have a great weekend, everybody.

77/11 - Ground turkey

And for today, we have ripe boiled plantains, a few carrots, and ground turkey meat. I have never cooked ground turkey. And besides extremely salty, it was very yummy.

I had to go out and buy meat seasoning recently, and I think that finding out that the Goya (typical Hispanic meat seasoning) was the "With salt" edition AFTER cooking was not the best idea. But yes, it does contain salt. A lot of it, it seems. But it was good nonetheless, no complains! Best of all, the turkey meat was all natural, no preservatives, and under manager's special, so it only was $1.50 for a rather large pack. Win win. :) I might like playing around with the meat section now...