Top tier L-R: home-made chopped dried fruit mix (cranberries, sultanas, papaya, rockmelon, mango), some chunks of dried rockmelon (under the mixture), and a low-fat blueberry/oat cookie cut in half, nestled near the front. Snowpea sprouts, nori bite rice crackers, dry-roasted chickpeas (under the rice crackers), dry-roasted garlic green peas (yellow cup).
Bottom tier L-R: leftover punjab eggplant (a pre-made microwave dealy, was too lazy to cook properly!) with basmati rice.
Not me in the photograph. I just like the image of someone so small, when faced with the immensity of the natural world, creating ripples in the still waters, just to have an impact. Of course, that wasn’t the context at all, but it’s a nice pretentious reading of the photo!
Top tier L-R: dry-roasted chickpeas, strawberry (yellow cup), red grape, snowpea sprouts, home-made chopped dried fruit mix (papaya, sultanas, rockmelon, mango; under the snowpea sprouts), nori bite rice crackers.
Bottom tier: a variation on my tofu scramble recipe. It involves loads of mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, red capsicum, curry powder and paprika.
Assorted: V8 juice box, apple and banana (not shown), probably also a fruit bar.
Left: steamed spinach with shoyu/sesame oil/garlic ‘dressing’, shoyu sesame seeds, and carrot animal shapes.
Top tier L-R: dry-roasted chickpeas overlain with nori bite rice crackers, mixture of home-made chopped dried fruit (sultanas, papaya, rockmelon, mango), and a strawberry mochi ball (yellow cup).
Bottom tier L-R: bhuja mix (pink cup), pre-made veggie roast cut into animal shapes (orange cup), dry-roasted garlic green peas (yellow cup), red grapes and snow-pea sprouts.
I actually have had a really bad stomach bug for a couple of days, so I ate like 1/3 of this. In other news… Wooo! 13 bento posts! As a bonus, here is a picture of my MonokuroBoo bento set:
From here. If you like somewhat off-colour humour, this is an awesome recent discovery.
Taken in the national park in the (almost?) Snowy Mountains; you’ll be seeing a few more photographs from this location at a later date. This is actually the interior of a homemade caravan.
Also, quick question – ought I to continue uploading photographs in a “1 per post” format, or would you prefer me to bunch them together? I’m working on uploading quite a few at the moment, so that I can then just post things at my leisure, thus keeping my updates to a more regular schedule.
Edit: all photographs uploaded here are deliberately uploaded in low resolution, to avoid plagiarism and to save bandwidth. They’re all taken in much higher quality.
Today’s bento was kind of a secondary meal box, because I treated myself to a bought lunch (Subway veggie delight, mmmmm, though they never put enough pepper on it!). So back to the Monokuro bento!
Top tier L-R: home-made mixture of diced dried fruit (mango, papaya, rockmelon and sultanas), ‘nori bite’ rice crackers on top of dry-roasted chickpeas.
Bottom tier L-R: bhuja mix (orange cup), purple grapes, carrots and snowpea sprouts along the edge, dry-roasted garlic green peas (yellow cup).
Assorted: seasoned nori, lychee gummy, blueberry hard sweet, and a Pink Lady apple.
Back to the adult-sized bento today, and the last of the curry!
Top tier L-R: dry-roasted garlic green peas, purple grapes, snowpea sprouts (under the grapes), carrot animal shapes, home-made dried fruit mix (sultanas, mango, rockmelon, papaya), and dry-roasted chickpeas.
Bottom tier L-R: the last of the vegetable curry!
Assorted: Orgran blueberry bar (the best gluten free/vegan snack bar out there!!!), seasoned nori, lychee gummy, blueberry hard sweet, and a pink lady apple. I also took a banana, because you can never have too much fruit!
Top tier: vegetable curry, redux (good thing it’s delicious, or I’d be mighty sick of it!).
Bottom tier: dry-roasted garlic green peas (yellow cup), diced mix of dried rockmelon, papaya and mango (orange cup), bhuja mix (pink cup). Snowpea sprouts at the front, and a layer of sultanas with a few dry-roasted chickpeas over the top.
Assorted: pink lady apple, seasoned nori sheets, lychee gummy sweet, blueberry hard sweet, and a blueberry and flaxseed muesli bar.
I need to find something else that’s compact, and filling (or I need to start forcing myself to eat a substantial breakfast). Before you judge me for being a massive guts: this is a children’s sized bento! And I do rely on this to get me through almost 9 straight hours of standing up!
First bento for work, and first time using my new MonokuroBoo bento box (I’ll post a picture of the full thing when I remember).
Top tier: leftover vegetable and chickpea curry (eggplant, spinach, green beans, potatoes, tomato and onion).
Bottom tier: snowpea sprouts (along the top edge), red grapes, dry-roasted chickpeas, diced dried papaya and rockmelon (in the pink cup) and dry-roasted garlic green peas (in the yellow cup).
To the side: flavoured nori strips, a lychee flavoured gummy sweet, and a hard sweet (blueberry flavour). I also took an apple. Deeeeelicious.
