astrangeone's bento counter - simple busywork lunch for September 4 2012

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It's the first day of university tomorrow, so I have packed a bento for shopping and vendor fair randomness. (Mostly shopping, because...the mall's food court is going to be fucking packed.)

My family had lunch at Asian Lengend - a Northern Chinese place - loads of carbohydrates, flour and noodles. I had noodles in soup, and we ordered way too much. I ended up taking half an order of glutinous rice roll back home to the dorms. It contains rice, fried dough fritter and pork floss. It's pretty tasty, but way too filling. I ended up packing several morsels of fruit and deciding on microwaving an egg to make more protein!

* It takes a whole load of food to fill a bento! Very strange - I always thought that bentos held a little bit of food!

Minutes to Prep: 30 minutes - had to slice and cut the cucumber rounds, peel citrus fruit, and microwave the egg.

Carbohydrates: leftover sticky rice roll from Asian Legend. Contains rice, fried dough fritter, meat floss...

Protein: microwaved egg omelette with salt

Fruit: fresh cherries (these were a snack on the way to my uni), fresh orange slices

Veggies: heart cut cucumber slices

Other: N/A.

Decorative: Homemade perler picks

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Yep, it's my lunch for the day.

It took longer than normal to pack this lunch, because I needed to prep a lot of the food. (I'd probably end up doing that during this weekend, so I can grab what I need out of the fridge when I need it.)

Also, I probably needed to skip the egg in this lunch. I don't have any breakfast food except for eggs. I think I'd just have some toast and soy milk tomorrow for breakfast.
 
Yeah that's my problem with packing lunch. At first its all healthy then I end up buying food already in their own containers and I put it in the lunch box. I've stopped doing that now.
What's more challenging is trying to be creative with it so your stomach doesn't get bored. That's my dilemma right now lol
 
Right now, I'm more concerned about using veggies and fruit to pad out the lunch. I'm not doing the very Japanese loads of rice, quarter of protein, and quarter of fruit and veggies. My thing is probably going to be quarter carbohydrates, quarter of protein and half-veggies.

The good thing is that my container is small, and that if I want to have a treat, I have to keep it small.

The localvore cafeteria on campus has a pretty nifty salad fixings bar. It costs about $5 for a large shaker of food - I think it's a good way to get veggies as well. (Mostly going to use it to get veggies if I need to.)
 

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