I suppose I was highly inspired by Mrs. Q. She posts photos of her son's lunches, as well as her own lunches, every week. I loved seeing how she could pull together such enticing, well-balanced meals to send in a lunchbox. I wanted to do the same thing.
So I purchased my BPA-free Laptop Lunch bento boxes. And I got creative. Well, sometimes. By the end of the summer, I was getting pretty redundant. And I didn't take photos every day. In fact, despite working five days a week for nearly four months, I ended the summer with a total of ELEVEN pictures. Fail? Well...eleven is more than zero. :)
Items are listed clockwise from the top left corner.
- half a (very ripe) banana and trail mix (for mid-morning snack)
- watermelon cubes
- mashed sweet potatoes
- PB&J&banana sandwich
And you're probably thinking, what's exciting about PB&J? Um...have you had a PB&J&banana sandwich? If you haven't...don't judge. Because it's fantastic. You will quickly notice in these pictures that I'm obsessed.
- Oven-roasted cauliflower
- orange
- seasoned sweet potato puree for dipping the cauliflower
- PB&J sandwich (no banana...but still wonderful)
- Broccoli and rice
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Diced mango
- Organic yellow carrots; hard-boiled egg
Falafel day!
- Spinach, mozzarella cheese, and julienned yellow carrots for stuffing in my pitas!
- Diced mango
- Baked falafel
- Pita pockets
Enough materials to make two falafel pitas.
- Orange wedges
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Yellow carrots
- Vegan banana-oatmeal waffles with homemade strawberry syrup
I would just like to say that these waffles ROCK. Whenever I make them, my apartment smells like banana bread. It's an absolutely divine recipe.
- Broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and hard-boiled egg
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Diced mango
- PB&J&banana :)
- Diced mango (again)
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Yellow carrots (again)
- Tuna noodle casserole with broccoli
Yes, that's tuna noodle. I used angel hair pasta (because it was all I had on hand), and the thickness of the casserole made the pasta break up into rice-sized pieces. I make this from scratch, using this concoction to replace the traditional Cream of Chicken/Mushroom monstrosity.
- Vegan quinoa and pinto bean salad (which I chose to eat warm, not cold)
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Yellow carrots (I got SO sick of these frickin' carrots! I've barely touched a carrot since.)
- Apple and peanut butter
- Baked kale chips
- Trail mix (mid-morning snack)
- Hard-boiled egg
- Pizza on pita bread with homemade pizza sauce, broccoli, and chickpeas
- Cantaloupe and raspberries from the farmers market :)
- Leftover Hawaiian pizza
- Sweet corn from the farmers market; grilled brussel sprouts
- Cantaloupe and raspberries
- Pinto beans with homemade taco seasoning
- Whole wheat tortilla with spinach, avocado, and cheese
I heated up the bean mixture separately, then added it to the tortilla.
And that's it. And I'm a little disappointed in myself, because I know I had some cooler lunches that I just didn't have the ambition to take a picture of. ;) But that's a glimpse of what I was eating this summer.
Buon appetito!
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