Bringing bento to work
In the last two years, in fact, in all those years as a bachelor, T often just had some junk food, coffee or skipped the first two meals of the day totally! By dinner time, he would be so hurry, he would have eaten a horse, if it’s available!
A combination of heavy dinner at odd hours and then late night snacks in front of TV. Are you even surprised he put on back the 30 pounds that he lost in the first two years of our marriage? Since he wanted to lose weight and stay healthy, we thought bring lunch to work might help.
As a start, we got a food container from Walmart, it’s not strictly a Bento box, just a plastic container that has two compartments.
The first day, I cooked a little extra during dinner and have the leftover Ginger Onion Chicken to go with the rice. Cut some celery and tomatoes for some extra fiber. It’s good that T loves vegetables! He just put the vegetables on a plate and reheated the rice and Ginger Onion Chicken in a microwave.
The next day, there was no leftover from dinner because he cleaned up all the Steamed Asam Catfish we had for dinner. So, I made him two slices of Peanut Butter Sandwich with Blueberry Jam, egg rolls and cut half an apple.
It went on well for the rest of the week except for one day he came back with the lunch unopened as he was too busy that day. It’s cold in the morning, my brain might be still trying to defrost, in a blur, forgot to take pictures of his lunches! I prepared most of the food at night, some days the lunches were all packed, he just have to take them out from the refrigerator and go.
I went on to purchase a Clickety Click three-tier Bento box from Ebay.
Thought the yellow Monkey who says “My name is Mink, I like to read the fantasy story. I am very excited when I read” is so cute, though T is not totally impressed with a monkey lunch box. He thought it’s for the little boys, not a big boy like him.:-)
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