1 post tagged “lunch”
This week we've been breaking in our new Mr. Bento. It is seriously great, and I take back all my doubts about the selection and arrangement of containers. So far it doesn't seem to be at all difficult to fit enough food for two into a single Mr. B. It does, however, require one additional bowl for divvying food up into, and I'm still holding open the possibility of buying a second one for days when we might want to eat less dense foods.
Today we will be having leftover green chickpea curry; a variation on these dal mudda (delicious and a great way for me to make lots of nice handy starchy-something that keeps through the week and is good in a lunch -- I used my own usual dal recipe and quinoa instead of rice, because it's better for S. and tastes lovely); yogurt; and some trail mix from Trader Joe's.
We've also been breaking in a new good routine with doing dishes, where we make sure everything is either washed up and put away or in the dishwasher and ready to go before we leave in the morning, and run it if it is more than half full. Then when we get home from work I can immediately put the lunch containers in a sink of hot soapy water while S. unloads the dishwasher. The key is to refuse to begin preparing dinner until the dishwasher is ready to receive dirty dishes. I realize this is all very far from being a mind-blowingly clever technique, but it's making me happy.
