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Published by Biggie on October 15th, 2007 tagged bento, glutenfree
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To keep lunches from getting boring, find ways to transform dinner leftovers into different dishes (”leftover makeovers” or “leftover remakes”). Earlier in the week we had pork carnitas tacos for dinner, so I mixed the leftover carnitas with some instant mole sauce and made it into sopes. Sopes are little discs of corn masa (like […]
Published by Biggie on October 15th, 2007 tagged bento, glutenfree, corn tortillas or masa, meat, phyllo or pancake or other, for kids, leftover remake | 4 Comments »
When I was shopping at Ichiban Kan in San Francisco the other week, I stumbled across a strange Pokemon lunch bag that I initially thought was an ordinary lunch cloth (like a cloth napkin or furoshiki wrapping cloth). When I got it home, however, I discovered that it was actually a weird cross between a […]
Published by Biggie on October 13th, 2007 tagged bento, pasta or noodles, sandwich or wrap, fish or seafood, lactose free, vegetarian, for kids, leftover remake, tutorial or how to, sandwich case | 11 Comments »
Okay, so I gave in to my son’s fixation with the Disney Cars movie and got him some Cars-themed bento gear for his third birthday. Listen to me preach that you don’t need cute, expensive gear to pack lunch, and then watch me do exactly the opposite. D’oh! Seriously, I have a problem: “My […]
Published by Biggie on October 10th, 2007 tagged bento, meat, onigiri or sushi, lactose free, for kids | 16 Comments »
Today I’ve got a couple of my son’s lunches from last week to clear before we get into this week’s lunches. I’m finding that even if Bug doesn’t eat the entire bento at preschool itself, he finishes everything up in the car after I pick him up (15 minutes after his lunch ends). I haven’t […]
Published by Biggie on October 8th, 2007 tagged bento, dumplings or buns, meat, phyllo or pancake or other, poultry, lactose free, for kids | 22 Comments »
Making bento lunches for preschool five days a week is no problem so far, but keeping up with the blogging is! I may have to rethink how many of Bug’s lunches I blog about — not all of them are necessarily photo-worthy, and I’d like to keep quality high and focused on speedy lunch packing. […]