Airplane bento and more

This will be the last post for a bit. I made myself a lunch bento to take on the plane since I will be at the airport at 9:30am and in the air from 11:40am to 1pm. I was too tired to think exactly about what bento things I wanted to take with me since I'll also be packing bentos for my cross-country trip to Duke next week...so I just opted for the laptop lunchbox system.


In it, we have two heart-shaped cream cheese sandwiches stacked on top of each other, eight pieces of gio, flower-shaped pound cake bites, an apple pastry, garlic-roasted pistachios, a lychee gummy, a mango jelly, and a matcha chocolate. In the upper coverable container I whipped up a no-mayo cabbage slaw. I lined it with plastic wrap so that the acid in the dressing didn't permeate the plastic and leave a smell.

I'm pretty excited about my first airplane bento! I will try to post the ones I take on my trip next week.

Nick told me today that he sometimes feels weird eating for the whole lunch hour while his coworkers are long finished. I guess having a big lunch and then a big side bento in addition can do that, since he is a very meticulous eater. So for tomorrow I gave him a small dessert bento which has pound cake bites, an apple pastry, a lychee gummy, a mango jelly, and a matcha chocolate. Maybe he will miss his side bentos so much while I'm gone that he'll want them back!