Bento #61: Quiche

It's a quiche!  We love quiche.  We believe that there is spinach, onion, and cheese in this particular quiche.  It has a whole wheat/olive oil crust.  Alongside the quiche, there's a plum, two coffee candies, and a packet of tea (which is sitting in front of another cup of tea.  Oh, well, We can never have too much tea here in the Sneaky Kingdom!).

Quiche is magical and delicious. It can contain anything and can be as healthy or as decadent as you like.  It is delicious at room temperature or hot or cold.  All hail the majesty of quiche!

Bento #60: Mystery Lentils

A mystery in the sense that We do not know when We ate it, not in the sense that We do not know what it is.

This is the beloved lentils and brown rice combo again, in the hot foods thermos, with some grapes and plums on the side.

This is an excellent lunch thermos, by the way.  Our lentils were still piping hot at lunchtime, which is excellent, because of the heinous cold in Our building.  Seriously, yesterday We were wearing jeans, full shoes and socks, a t-shirt, a sweater, and then a baggy sweatshirt over everything in order to keep from freezing.  Although hot lunch is impossible to contemplate while We are at home, it is highly desirable at work!

Today We had to walk across campus to pick up some work for a friend who's sick at home and had foolishly left her class prep materials in her office.  It's freezing in the buildings.  Walking across campus, We sweated not just through Our t-shirt, but through the knees of Our jeans.  Now We are back in the a/c, trying to dry off before We go teach again, and We are wet and freezing.  This means 1) it is impossible to dress correctly and 2) the university is wasting a whole lot of cash keeping its staff freezing in sweaters in August.  Can't something be done about this?  Like, budget committee, what if you gave $ back to programs in exchange for everyone turning the temperature up two degrees in each building?

We must be overlooking or unaware of something.

Bento #59: They Taste Good to Her

Okay, so let's dispense with the basics: We have a sandwich of almond butter and blackberry preserves, a few sticks of celery, a hard-boiled egg, some grapes for packing material, and a plum.

Look at it!  Look at it really hard.  Look at the deep, rich, red color.  Look at the beautiful dark, thin skins,  Look at the way that, even in this low-res lunch photo, the juice glistens, a sweet wet promise.  Look at the way the flesh lightens inward where the stone has been removed, an almost solar-eclipse-like effect, making the plum both absence and presence at the same time. 

We bought a huge sack of these plums and ate them all week, letting juice run down Our arms and chin, staining fingers and lips a rich violet red unusual in a plum.  We must tell you, We are a little weak in the knees.  No kidding, W.C.W., these plums were so good that Our desire for them was nearly sexual in its intensity.  Solace of ripe plums, indeed.

Snackbox, Toddler-Style

We woke up.  We put on Our cute "Yellow Submarine" dress.  We got ready for work.  And then, petulance set in.  We did not want to have to pack a lunch.  Besides which, We were not quite running on all Our cylinders that morning, and thinking about food was kind of a no-go.  So, We packed the only thing that seemed good to Us: Our Noodle Bear box full of grapes. 

We knew perfectly well that this is not a lunch, that We would have to go buy something else somewhere within walking distance of Our building.  We could not care enough to scare up something else back at the castle before leaving.

In Our defense, grapes are delicious, aren't they?

Snackbox: Trail Mix

We love a snackbox.  We often have a snackbox like this hidden somewhere in the depths of Our bag.  This is trail mix from Our local hippie grocery.  It's kind of chocolate-heavy.  Usually, We get a fruit-heavy one. 

This tiny little Tupperware container is a good snackbox to have tucked in the backpack.  It won't go bad if We don't eat it the day We pack it, it's a good hit of calories to keep Us from going crazy with hunger, and it's way tastier than most of the premade granola bars out there. 

So if We do not post many snackboxes, here is why: the majority of them look something like this.