Belated Bento!

I forgot to post this on Tuesday when I made it for lunch… but it’s here now!

Contents:

• 3/4 cup sushi rice
• 1/4 cup vegetable confit
  Recipe from JustBento – I added some fennel as well.
• Assorted steamed veges (broccoli, carrot, cauliflower)
• Slightly burnt teriyaki salmon
• Fruit cup (tinned peaches)
• iced tea sachets

I’ll post the recipe for the teriyaki salmon when I make it again (without burning it this time haha).

~K

 

IT ARRIVED!

As you may have seen on twitter, my new lunchbox arrived!

Yay my lunchbox arrived!!! #bento #cat #lunches pic.twitter.com/etQKIv5Gap

— K. (@tomymadlife) February 4, 2015

I should be sharing at least 1 lunch set up per week from now on, so keep an eye out for those!

~K

 

P.S. For some reason, the twitter embed is not showing up properly when I look at the post, it’s cutting off about a third of the picture. If someone knows how to fix that, feel free to tell me!

New lunchbox!

I ordered my new lunchbox last night!

I have been um-ing and ah-ing over getting it for the last 3 months, because Hubby’s new job meant that a few things changed in our routine – namely that Hubby is now taking lunch to work because he actually gets a lunch break. So he’s been using my lunchbox, which is totally fine (because I’m on holidays so I wasn’t using it), but it meant that I would have to buy another, so we would both be able to take packed lunches to uni/work.

After much thought and discussion, Hubby said he was happy with the one he’s using (it’s big enough to fit 2 sandwiches or wraps into, along with a few sweet treats), and that I should look at a new lunchbox.

After also tossing up between the two different sizes of the same style of bento box/lunchbox that I liked on Amazon (for pretty much the past month), I ordered this one (the larger of the 2 options). Isn’t it just the cutest?

Meow!

I liked it for several reasons

1. because CAT
2. it has 2 separate compartments as well as a bowl on top – I really wanted one that had a bowl incorporated into the design, because I like to have instant soup or miso soup as a “snack” (particularly good for when you’re in a freezing lecture theatre for 4 hrs straight)
3. the larger size means that I can pack a little more food on long uni days, and less on days where I’m only there for a couple of hours
4. it’s a good size and shape to fit in my handbag along with my thermos.

Due to now being in a position again where it will actually be worthwhile for me to make proper lunches again, some of the recipes I share on the Foodie Fridays posts will probably tend a little more towards the Japanese bento genre – I got most of my recipes off JustBento, and I can’t wait until I sell some of my old textbooks so I can buy her recipe book!
I used to make bentos all the time for my lunch, but I just got lazy in the second half of last year and I’m really looking forward to doing them again 🙂

I am SOOOO ready for the new semester to start already, I just want to get on with everything! I can’t believe it’s a whole month to go before Uni starts back, I’m honestly getting bored – I’ve read the first chapter of all my new textbooks already. I’m not sure whether that means I’m a nerd or a bookworm…

Bring on the new year! It doesn’t really feel like it’s started until I’m back at uni :S

~K