Bento #112: Fish Salad

Though We strive mightily to be vegetarian, sometimes We crack.  Our love of delicious fish supercedes Our desire to eat low on the food chain and to live and let live.  Thus, this fishy salad was born.

Here is lettuce, tomatoes, miniature bell peppers, carrots, pea pods, and lightly pan-fried mahi-mahi with a honey-mustard vinaigrette.  Yum.

Bento #109: Krabby Quiche

Ah, yes, citizenry, it is that most perfect of pie devices: quiche.  This quiche features a host of veggies: onions, greens, peas, and tomato as well as feta and fake crab meat.  Oh, how We love krab.  It is a Major Weakness--along with other processed seafood items, like fishsticks or those fish balls that show up in weird asian soups.  Yum.

Alongside the lovely quiche, We have carrots with some sort of dipping sauce, a plum, and a tiny yellow pear tomato.  Delicious!

Bento #108: Random Junk from the Fridge

Citizens, this is a weird one.  Our fridge was full of random stuffs, and We had not been shopping in a while, so here is a Very Strange Lunch.

The left tier has kind of a deconstructed California roll: sushi-seasoned brown rice, fake krab sticks leftover from something else, and avocado.  The right tier has greek yogurt, frozen blueberries, and plums.

This is not Our best lunch, citizens.  We admit to a certain lack of planning and forethought.  Fruit salad doesn't really go with fallen-apart sushi.  This is also not the most nutritionally sound lunch either, somehow.  Something is off.  We are somewhat shamed.

Bento #37: Tuna Wraps and Luminous Grapes

Yesterday We walked to school to go to the library and check out what, on the way home, felt like about 30 lbs. of books. 

After the library but before the walk home, We ate lunch on a picnic bench, and then hung up Our hiking hammock and read for about two hours before going home.  What a great time!

Lunch here is two tuna-salad roll-ups in whole wheat tortillas, a few carrot sticks, a bunch of grapes that are all luminously catching the light in a particularly lovely way, and one of those Sunsweet single-wrap prunes.  The Queen Mother sent them to our Cousin's Wife as part of a little gift box, and neither she nor cousin is gonna eat them.  We told them We would take care of it for them, since we love prunes in the Sneaky Kingdom.  That said, We rue the packaging every time We eat one.  So wasteful!  So We plan to mostly pack them in bentos, since the wrapping sort of nominally makes sense if they're transportable prunes?

Bento #20: Sandwich of Shame

On the outside, this sandwich looks all innocent.  Wheat bread surrounded by a phalanx of carrots.  But really, this sandwich is the reason We haven't posted lunches in a while.  We were full of shame!  Horrible shame!  Vegetarians and other gentle souls may need to look away.

Oh, the horror!  The humanity!  As you can clearly see, once this sandwich is opened, Tuna Salad! is clearly revealed.  But seriously, though, We had such a craving for it.  Although eating two fish sandwiches in a week is kind of bad--"Slowly climbing back up the food chain, eh King?" we thought to ourselves.  Naughty.  But what's almost worse is that the sandwich is on ... store bought bread!  Oh, We cover Our Blushing Face and hide in the Royal Corner!  We meant to make bread, really We did--but when We got to the store, We were so hungry already, and We just wanted to go home and eat something stat, not have to worry about whether to eat something bad for Us or wait three hours until the bread would be done--sigh.  Heavy is the head, blah blah.

And the bread was buy one, get one free.  There's another loaf in Our freezer.  Will the madness never end?