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Love with Food Box, September 2012

Food Subscription Box

I will be back tomorrow with a bento. Today is a quick post for Relatively Wordless Wednesday, featuring my September 2012 Love with Food Box. As I mentioned last month, I enjoyed the box so much, I decided to subscribe for awhile. This month’s goodies came with fun things to try, especially this Barney Butter [...]

Mini Meatloaf Bento (426)

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Things are going well so far with my new ECOlunchboxes bento boxes.  And I got super lucky with them when I packed this mini meatloaf.  It fits exactly.  YAY for some really great mini meatloaf pans from Sur la Table I bought forever ago but haven’t really used until recently.

Roasted Chicken with Cuban Black Beans (423)

Roasted Chicken and Cuban Beans Bento

Before I lament about the issues with today’s bento box, let’s just go over what’s in the two tiers.  The pink tier has cuban black beans over rice and  roasted chicken slices with roasted veggie slices of potato, peppers, onions, and broccoli.  The white tier holds a side salad with hydroponic lettuce mix, small hard-boiled [...]

Review: Love with Food Subscription Box

Love with Food Box

Subscription boxes seem to be all the rage these days, and there is another one on the market: Love with Food.  When my friend Kim returned from BlogHer ’12, she contacted me about a company she had met while there: Love with Food.  She knew the concept would intrigue me, and it most certainly did. [...]

NTM: Back to Nature California Lemon Cookies

ntm_lemon cookies

I really like the brand Back to Nature.  In fact, the only thing about them I don’t like so far is the fact that they took a cherry/chocolate granola bar off the market.  I used to buy those at Wal-Mart ALL. THE. TIME.  In fact, it was the only reason I shopped at Wal-Mart.  I’m [...]

NTM: Nueva Cocina Black Beans & Rice

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NTM stands for New-to-Me, a Not Exactly Bento segment that appears on Tuesdays.  When I decided to start bento-ing in 2007, I quickly reazlied that (1) I needed to learn how to cook and (2) I needed to grow my limited food choices.  Since then, I’ve tried to document my trials and tribulations with all [...]

NTM: Green Giant Garden Vegetable Medley

Today’s bento is another of those that I showed off yesterday. Since you’ve already seen that picture, I leave you with a “new to me” post for the day. An explanation of NTM follows at the end of this post. I’m not one much on frozen things that you heat, steam, stir fry, or what [...]

NTM Tuesday: Green & Black Chocolate

I have a little chocolate fiend that sits on my shoulder and convinces me to try chocolate treats.  He’s very persuasive and we get along very well.  Or at least that’s the excuse I use as to why I have some much chocolate around this house!  LOL!  Trying chocolate delights has got to be one [...]

NTM Tuesday: Heaven Scent Cookies

The other week while at Whole Foods, I was in the cookie aisle looking at this brand of cookies: Heaven Scent.  I thought they had a cleaver name.  How many times have you cooked something or tasted something and thought, “Oh, heaven”?  This brand of cookie had a thumbprint cookie, and I am on a [...]