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miko2Lately I've been failing to get as much exercise as I should be getting. However, on the diet front I've done pretty well. I've got making small bento lunches down to a science. They aren't cute, there isn't a lot of variety from day to day, but they're good and healthy.
In one container I have my collection of what I think of as "bento snack food" which I try to assemble every day. On one end I have a small tin foil thing holding some pickles -- lately two jalapeno-stuffed olives, a few spicy baby dill pickles, and some pickled ginger, but I sometimes add some spicy pickled green beans. At the other end in a similar divider I have a handful of pistachios. In between I have my veggies and fruit -- fruit is almost always green grapes, up to a dozen or so. Veggies are baby carrots, slices of orange or yellow bell pepper, thin discs of zuccini and yellow squash (I like to shuffle them between each other for a striped effect), and maybe some celery slices although I haven't managed to accomplish that lately. I place dried apricots on top, they're flat and dry and fit nicely packed in anywhere there's space left. I also have on one side a thin stick of hershey's dark chocolate. Over the pistachios I pack in some strips of sliced summer sausage and smoked gouda cheese, and that finishes it off.
When I have the time I make a more substantial lunch/dinner by slicing up a chicken breast into small pieces and frying it in olive oil with lemon or lime and spices, and I boil some frozen veggies to go with it. This goes into a different container, of course. Other days when I don't do this I'll buy something small for lunch/dinner, like a sandwich wrap from Arby's.
I bought one of the large family packs of chicken breasts at the store -- much cheaper that way -- and then placed each one in a seperate sandwich baggie before freezing. This has worked really well for me. I take one out of the freezer the day before and put it in the fridge, and then I cook it in the morning before work.
Maybe some day I'll put more effort into designing a bento that's actually worth looking at! ^_^
In one container I have my collection of what I think of as "bento snack food" which I try to assemble every day. On one end I have a small tin foil thing holding some pickles -- lately two jalapeno-stuffed olives, a few spicy baby dill pickles, and some pickled ginger, but I sometimes add some spicy pickled green beans. At the other end in a similar divider I have a handful of pistachios. In between I have my veggies and fruit -- fruit is almost always green grapes, up to a dozen or so. Veggies are baby carrots, slices of orange or yellow bell pepper, thin discs of zuccini and yellow squash (I like to shuffle them between each other for a striped effect), and maybe some celery slices although I haven't managed to accomplish that lately. I place dried apricots on top, they're flat and dry and fit nicely packed in anywhere there's space left. I also have on one side a thin stick of hershey's dark chocolate. Over the pistachios I pack in some strips of sliced summer sausage and smoked gouda cheese, and that finishes it off.
When I have the time I make a more substantial lunch/dinner by slicing up a chicken breast into small pieces and frying it in olive oil with lemon or lime and spices, and I boil some frozen veggies to go with it. This goes into a different container, of course. Other days when I don't do this I'll buy something small for lunch/dinner, like a sandwich wrap from Arby's.
I bought one of the large family packs of chicken breasts at the store -- much cheaper that way -- and then placed each one in a seperate sandwich baggie before freezing. This has worked really well for me. I take one out of the freezer the day before and put it in the fridge, and then I cook it in the morning before work.
Maybe some day I'll put more effort into designing a bento that's actually worth looking at! ^_^
