What A Week!

I didn't make it to the grocery store on Sunday as I usually do, so had to go last night after dinner.  I was thinking about what I should make for lunches this week and realized that other than Monday, I wasn't going to be home before 8 any of the rest of the days this week.

Hubby got a salad with sushi tuna as his main course.  Carrots with hummas, strawberries, a small salami flower, blue cheese dressing and a mozzarella ball finished the box.  I found some new dressing containers, and I think they hold just a little more than the squares.  Lot's of color today!

MAC asked for a smaller amount again so she got half the amount of strawberries, a mozzarella ball and some jalapeno pretzel crisps.  It's getting harder and harder to find good for her food that she likes enough to eat.  I keep trying to explain that one can not live on muffins and hamburgers alone!

Monday, Monday

Hubby wanted a "real sandwich" today.  He got two slices of organic sourdough bread with a slice of Munster between them.  There are a few slices of tomato, a little mustard for spreading and two rolls of roast beast.  I picked up two grapefruits at the Amish market on Friday so he has half, and then some veggie chips.  It has been very gratifying to have an empty lunchbox come home every day. 

MAC on the other hand is still just wanting snacks.  She got really fresh strawberries (also from the Amish market), corn chips, salsa, baby carrots and some hummas.  We discussed how the carrots could also be dipped in the salsa giving them a little spicy taste to go with the crunch.

Friday Fun

Hubby stayed home sick on Thursday so he just took Thursday's lunch for Friday.  MAC has been bringing more home than she or her friends have eaten so she only wanted a snack pack of gold fish today.

I joined Weight Watchers on Tuesday and have been very conscious of what I'm eating these days. 
This is my lunch for Friday, two portabello mushroom caps, diced peppers, scallions, and salsa to make mushroom pizzas.  The plastic wrapped items are mozzarella balls, because what is a pizza without cheese?  We have a toaster oven at work so I'll toss it all in there for 5 minutes and voila, lunch! 

Have a great weekend!

Not Feeling It

MAC had a late group meeting so we didn't get home until well after 8pm.  She didn't want anything, so I made Hubby's in my bento.  (This meant that I didn't have to wash and dry any dishes).  I wasn't feeling overly creative so I just went for lots of color.  The veggies are baby peppers, green beans, carrots, cucumbers, yellow peppers and hummas.  There are some corn chips with salsa and then his protein was the last of the hard spicy salami and wine cheese.

Mash-up

Once again it was band night so I was making lunches rather late.  They both ended up as a hodge podge of items. 

Hubby got half a blood orange and a few mozzarella balls to go with his Bar-B-Q chips.  The mini baguette was interspersed with wine cheese slices and the spicy hard salami.  He did get some healthy carrots and green beans with hummas. 

MAC said that I have been packing her too much food so we went back to using her Edgar Allen Poe lunchbox and she got 2 rice cakes, a mozzarella ball, 3 chips, salami, a mini red pepper and a few pieces of mini baguette.

Engineer I am not!

I was so excited to try my hand at something creative!  I took mozzarella cheese balls and made the little rabbits.  The salami was supposed to be a tree and the lettuce was grass.  Unfortunately, working with a semi-hard cheese and rice noodles (to keep everything together) wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.  So, after working 15 minutes on the bunnies MAC got "stuff" for the rest of her lunch.  A stuffed pepper, a few corn chips, cookie crumbs and yoghurt as well as some mini baguette.

Hubby on the other hand got a sleeping person.  The pillow is rolled up salami, the man is made from spicy hard salami and the head is a mozzarella ball.  He also got a stuffed pepper, some wine cheese, hummas, carrots and the mini baguette.

The bunnies didn't last past coming out of the 'fridge and the man was in pieces by the time hubby ate lunch but I showed them the pictures and they thought they were cute!

Creative? Nah...

One of these days I want some of the cute little cheese and bread cutters that I have seen in other bentos.  Of course, some of the reusable cutouts would be fun too.  Until then I have to work with just a knife and some re purposed cookie cutters.

This was Hubby's lunch today.  I used the mini baguette slices, they are easy and delicious.  The yellow next to the baguette is mustard.  Inside the front rectangle is lettuce, a few slices of organic roast beef (or as we call it at our house "Roast Beast" from Dr. Seuss) and organic muenster cheese squares.  He got half a blood orange, a slice of cucumber, carrots and some spicy hummas.

MAC told me exactly what she wanted (minus the fruit of course).  She got half a cheese burger sub, vanilla yogurt, some cookie crumbles for the yogurt and the rest of the blood orange.  For some reason I doubt that her friends will get much sharing today...