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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.

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.