Tangerine and Stir Fry Sides Bento

The vegetable stir fry was left over from last night's evening meal. It has lots of walnuts in it which are very good for you. The tangerine is my one a day since we have been gifted with a tree full of picked fruit. Healthy habits to start off 2015.

Sail On, Sail On, Sailor Bento

A midweek bento last week with a smoked salmon and cream cheese English muffin in the floater tray. Spinach with capers, red bell peppers with capers, heirloom green tomatoes, and a little pink pocket of walnuts in the main box.  

The lid of this box (and my current wallpaper) is a watery scene with demons on the horizon. I woke up last night with dreams of my death in the ocean. To all of those who have succumb to the kelp monsters, to the shadows of the deep, and to songs of the mermaids, my you rest in peace.

Stars and Stripes Forever Bento

Titled "Swimming Upstream"

because sometimes

 getting

 anything

 done 

around here 

feels like swimming upstream.

So when the inspiration comes 

to make 

star shaped 

grilled cheese sandwiches, 

I jump 

up 

and

 down

at lunchtime.

Stripey stripe green bell peppers, 

tangy mango salsa (a go go),

walnuts (7 a day),

and

a sweet treat, Hi-Chew.

(bless you)

Two Round Bento

Oven baked chicken pieces with walnuts and mixed greens on one side, and bibb, carrots, and grape tomatoes with blue cheese dip on the other.

Spring weather came back to the Central Coast of California. Yay! 

Mache Bento with Pineapple

Brought this supplemental bento with me to work last week. Also had a ham sammie. So the pineapple went well with that. The walnuts and dark chocolate were a perfect 3 o'clock snack, and the green stuff is called mache with an accent on the e from my garden. And despite mache being a cool weather green, it is still growing out there under a first year artichoke in 98 degree spring heat!

Stanley's Friend Totoro Bento

I had a good laugh eating this lunch the other day. A young man came into the shop and said "Please don't tell me you're eating fruit salad with chopsticks."

I held up my Totoro box cover and said "You do know ToToRo?" To which he replied yes.

Then, much to the fun that is where I call work, he did the whole Totoro scene when the girl lands on his stomach.

Olive Me Bento

For this week I took a lovely pork sandwich to work, yet I felt compelled to bring more food - perhaps a few sides. Hence, this polar bear bento box called out to me. It's time to freeze at work, so we might as well have a smile with Syrupy O'Clock.

The little pink bear (apparently with tummy problems) pleads, "Why not take Olive Me?"

Alas, I'm sorry we're destroying your habitat, Sweet Polar Bear. Here, have a cherry.