A pair of airplane bentos

This past week I jetted off to the east coast to visit Duke University as a prospective grad school. There are no direct flights there so the prospect of no food for over 6 hours was an unhappy one. So, who to step in but my trusty laptop lunch box?

Flight to Durham:


I amassed a lot of food for this bento. We have roast chicken, fresh boiled corn off the cob, green bean goma ae, two mango jellies (frozen as ice packs), a boiled egg, one sliced Japanese cucumber, pistachios, flavored seaweed, a cookie, and a chocolate. Not pictured is a salmon onigiri and some honey wheat rolls. I ate almost everything but the green bean goma ae (I decided I didn't like the flavor) and the onigiri (too full by the time I got to it).

Flight back from Durham:
This one was harder because I had to make do with what I could get my hands on during the last day of the visit. I ended up grabbing a crudite pack from UNC's student store (yes i visited Duke's rival) and included my leftovers from the barbecue we attended.


Here we have celery, carrots, and broccoli, ranch dressing, Carolina barbecue pork (spicy and vinegar-y), one hush puppy hidden under the ranch dressing, a mango jelly, and a chocolate. Not pictured are the cookies and seaweed I had stashed from last time. This one just kept me from not starving until my connection in Vegas where I had a taco and chips and salsa. I don't think it's too bad for having been scrounged from unknown supplies.