More bentos

I've neglected to post a few bentos I've made so I'm posting a few I've made since my last post. The first picture is my attempt at octodog which really didn't turn out that well. The octodog is actually a smoked sausage and chicken & veggie potstickers.

Second picture, hubs attempted to decorate his bento for lunch the following day. He had cut some SPAM into strips. Included with the brown rice and strips of SPAM is stir-fry ramen noodles.


Third picture has two containers; container on the left has 3 mini meatloaf patties with brown rice and onion soup gravy and the right container holds crinkle heart-shaped cucumbers marinated with Italian dressing, garnished with chopped green bell peppers.


Fourth picture is actually for tomorrow's/today bento(Wednesday) for hubs. Contains 3 chicken & veggies potstickers, steamed veggies(carrots, sugarsnap peas, mushrooms & onions) and brown rice. Also included is two mini egg custard cups for dessert.

A day late, but not a dollar short

Monday has come & gone and this bento was hubs lunch for yesterday. This past weekend I had myself a potsticker wrapping party. Hubs suggested that I use corned beef as a filling for the potstickers and so I did. Besides the corned beef I used shredded caggage, shredded carrots, lots of chopped green onions, some soy sauce and oyster sauce. It was simple enough to mix together and wrapping them into envelope shapes was not as tedious as I had imagine it would be.

Left: 2 chicken potstickers, 4 homemade corned beef envelope potstickers and cut up pieces of smoked sausage.

Right: Green beans, baby carrots and wannabe octodog on a bed of brown rice.

Yummy greens

This was hubs lunch for Wednesday afternoon! It also happened to be what hubs had for dinner Tuesday evening; me too minus the udon noodles.

Left: Small round container filled with sliced steamed zucchini seasoned with Mrs. Dash's Garlic & Herb and a splash of soy sauce.

Right: Square container, scattered beef meatballs cut in half, steamed sugarsnap peas(very, very good; leftover from tonight's dinner), in the center is udon noodles tossed with peanut butter/soy sauce mixture(I made) and chopped green onions. Hubs was so excited that he got to have udon again for lunch! lol It's great that he's so easy to please! =)

Fill'er it up please

So I finally got a chance to break in my adorably cute laptop lunchbox. I just ♥ ♥ this lunchbox!! It's just so cute to me! This meal was actually a pic from Tuesday. Everything was delicious!! Since this is MY laptop lunchbox, I did pack hubs his own bento with the exact same contents of my bento. I packed his lunch in 2 of those flip and fold containers or whatever you call them. I'm really not sure what they are called. We purchased his bento gear during our Shopping Euphoria* excursion! First off I want apologize for the picture quality but our digi cam is still on the fritz. It maybe not be so much on/or in the fritz, but actually not cooperating with hubs and me. We've been trying to fandangle with it, bu no luck yet. Anyhow, on to the food.

Top lefthand side: Brown rice with mixed veggies(carrot coins, broccoli, & cauliflower) seasoned with Yasai Fumi flavored Furikake.

Top right: Steamed cauliflower and 1 broccoli.

Bottom left: Chicken Shu Mai(Trader Ming's, Trader Joe's) and 3 beef meatballs, purple container with sauce for Chicken Shu Mai.

Bottom right: More steamed broccoli

Laptop lunch

Whoooo hooooo! After much admiring and drooling over this adorable lunchbox, I finally purchased me a set on e-bay! This is the same exact color I got. I can't wait to use it. Our digital camera is still on the fritz; so I'm not sure how long it will be til I'll be able to take pictures again.

O the agony of

I haven't been able to post any new pics of bentos because our digital camera is on the fritz. Aaarrhhh... makes me nuts I can't take pictures when I want to now. So that's why I haven't posted anything new. Hopefully in the next month or so, we'll get a new one; or I might have to take regular pictures the old fashion way and also get them put on a cd. Man it's crazy how everything is all about instant gratification and how we become used to that kind of habit and mindset.