Living the bento lifestyle...sort of
The sandwich in today’s bento box is the current apple of my eye (pun intended). It all started when my brother contacted me one weekend last month, “Have you eaten breakfast? You should eat breakfast. Breakfast is good for you.” Which is Jason speak for, “I want breakfast. Do you want to have breakfast with [...]
Do you mind if I eat a pizza bento at least once a week? I Now that I know how to make the dough, and it is so easy, I find that I’m thrilled to have pizza back in my life. Basically it’s a big breadstick I suppose as I don’t eat marinara sauce anymore. But [...]
Today’s jambalaya bento is packed in a Litter Free Lunch set by New Wave Enviro. I mentioned yesterday that I received lunch boxes from New Wave Enviro to test and review here at Not Exactly Bento. This particular set comes with 4 boxes, and is supposed to be geared for kids. Well let me tell [...]
Every so often I think to myself I need to make a breakfast for lunch bento again. Everyday I forget. When Sheri of Happy Little Bento posted her breakfast for lunch bento this week, it reminded me I really needed to to this again. I woke extra early to cook the meal for myself, let [...]
As I type this post, I’m eating this chicken and plum salad bento. How can that be? Well, it was for dinner last night. The last two weeks, I’ve found a bento rhythm that is working for me, for the time being. My rhythms come and go as my life changes and moods swing. HA! [...]
Hello everyone! Welcome to my jambalaya bento today! I am so so super excited about it. My co-workers have been raving about a new butchery that opened on my way home from work. I see it every day, but never stop. At the end of the work week, I visited the joint to see what [...]
It isn’t often I pack a sandwich bento. But a decent deal at Whole Foods convinced me. While I can’t completely afford to shop there, I have found a compromise. I purchase meat on sale elsewhere and my fruits and vegetables (which are fairly reasonably priced) at Whole Foods. Typically, I like the look [...]
Today’s bento is a little different for me as I don’t normally pack lettuce wraps or roll ups, yet there you can see one of each. Yesterday’s attempt at a fruit-nut-cheese salad from Bittman’s How to Eat Everything Vegetarian was a moderate success. Moderate because I couldn’t figure out how you would eat this salad with a [...]
I was so excited about last week’s pizza bento, that I posted a picture on my personal Facebook page. This resulted in an exchange between my mother and I where we decided to hold a small family pizza party at her house. I would bring the homemade pizza dough and a few toppings, and she [...]
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