Jambalaya Pasta Mr. Bento

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– Sweetwater chopped salad (with roasted corn and croutons)
– Sweetwater Jambalaya pasta
– Buttermilk ranch dressing
– Apple slices
– Reese’s Crunch
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May 4th – These were leftovers from my sister’s celebratory dinner at Sweetwater Tavern (Falls Church). Dan ate just the pasta and was full! He saved the salad and other things for the next day though he purposefuly accidentally spilled the dressing on the apples, so couldn’t eat them.

I tried to make a manly lunch for him. This is actually my Mr. Bento (purchased from Yodobashi in Japan ’07), but all the containers were placed in a brown bag instead of the insulated cylinder. Dan claimed that he didn’t know what order to stack the containers when replacing them in the brown bag, hence leading to the dressing spilling. And I *almost* executed a nearly perfect non-bento bento!

It was a sort of birthday-weekend-extend lunch, since he loves all of these foods. The Reese’s were purchased in an 8-pack that I said “he could only use when I pack him lunch”, which means I’m allowed to pack bento!

Typical Dinner: Donburi (Tofu & Squash)

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April 24th – Here’s a peek into a night spent alone. With Danny out on the town, I was left to my own devices. We used to eat tofu all the time, but then Dan got turned off of it (dunno what happened), so I had some extra tofu laying around. Okay, in full disclosure, it was expired tofu, but I figure it was okay to eat a few days (read: week or two) past the deadline. I stir-fried it up with some yellow squash and rooster sauce (along with other things like soy sauce and some sugar). I served it donburi style atop some nice, hot rice. It was too filling — I would have been full on half the amount!

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Spinach Fried Rice

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April 22nd – Danny’s first lunch in his new bento from the new Lotte! He was super good, so he got a Resse’s Peanut Butter Egg! On the left are two silicone containers, one with peanut butter and one with pretzel-tots and raisins. Right side is fried rice with a little piece of baby spinach on top for ‘presentation’. The fried rice itself isn’t actually spinach-infused.

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