Lin’s lunch today is significantly more like a real bento box meal. I tried anyway, and I had to avoid being cute with the food. There will be grumbling, of course, because there is not a turkey or peanut butter sandwich to be found anywhere. It doesn’t look like much, but adding up the calories, it’s a pretty healthy meal. Maybe a little lighter than Lin would normally eat, but then what Lin normally eats is the reason for the spare tire and love handles. Change is good.

Two boxes with a whole wheat biscuit, two picks with cucumber, lettuce and cheese (which can’t be seen), some cherry tomatoes, a vinaigrette pasta salad, cocktail weenies, and a boiled egg. Not pictured is the small container with three peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies in it. It all fit, albeit very snuggly, into a standard brown lunch sack. I really need to make Lin a bag for his lunch boxes.

I made all the food but the biscuit and cookies this morning. The pasta, sausages and egg(s) boiled in the same pot while I did the veggies and got everything else together. Took no time at all, and I made enough to pack my own box for lunch today, even though I’ll be going no further than the living room.

The egg would be soooo much better if it was shaped like a bunny or fish or Hello Kitty.