On the 23rd we just had regular side bentos. Nick's blue happy balloon bento box has in the top tier cabaret crackers, breakfast cheese, a laughing cow cheese, three chocolate wafer cookies, and some suger snap peas. In the bottom tier there are some more sugar snap peas, colored goldfish crackers, sliced carrots, ranch dressing in the small container, and a matcha chocolate.
My bento that day had in the top tier sugar snap peas, carrots, some garlic chicken pasta salad, and ranch dressing. In the bottom tier there are chocolate wafer cookies, a laughing cow cheese, colored goldfish crackers, and some grapes.
The next day I left for Colorado to visit Lyndsay so I packed an airplane bento for myself and a side bento for Nick. I used my spiffy new lunch kit that has a main container, two side containers, an ice pack, and the cute blue flower insulated carrying case. Inside I had a salad made with carrots and spring greens (from our very first CSA box!), some homemade balsamic vinaigrette in the little sauce pig, a mango jelly, grapes, crackers and cheese, and colored goldfish.
For Nick I used my new yellow monkey box. The cover is hilarious. I used it because it's deeper than my other boxes which was perfect for the amount of salad I wanted to give him. His vinaigrette is in a cute blue whale. Apparently his coworkers thought this was way too much, haha. He also had grapes, an apple pastry, a passionfruit truffle, a lychee gummy, and a matcha chocolate.
Since I was having a great time in Colorado, no bentos were made until I got back and went to work on May 1. Nick went out to eat for lunch. Since I knew I was going to be out in the field, I opted to use my laptop lunch box in my orange carrying case with an ice pack. I made two wraps with red chile tortillas, honey-roasted turkey, butter lettuce, and Bellwether Farms fromage blanc. They were alot better than I expected considering they were in the fridge overnight. Alongside that I had organic yellow carrots, ranch dressing, grapes, a mango jelly, and crackers with cheese. The crackers are from Fort Collins, CO but they might be available in Whole Foods markets.
My new coworkers were very intrigued by my lunch which made me excited. It was also cool to see what they brought for lunch. One guy, Ben, brought half of a red cabbage and proceeded to eat it like an apple. Interesting! He also offered me some of his packaged baked tofu.
Yesterday (Friday) I made a bento for each of us. Nick's bento has some gio, yellow carrot sticks and ranch dressing, colored goldfish, a mango jelly, and these funny little mushroom-shaped chocolate cookies. I thought they were so cute that I had to have them.
I had a laptop lunch again since I was out in the field in the morning. I have a feeling this will continue for a while. I had a sandwich of butter lettuce, honey turkey, fromage blanc and mayo. On the side there were yellow carrots, gio, and a snack mix of colored goldfish, mushroom chocolate cookies, and ranch-flavored corn puffs.
I hope I will be on track from now on with posting my bentos like I was before I went on a whirlwind plane tour of the United States!
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