Umeboshi update... now I see why they're always surrounded by white rice. It seems the rice leeches most of the salt from the evil little pink blobs of DOOM, making them only very sour... and not like you just drank half the North Sea... yay!

And since I forgot to post it earlier: Weight remains unchanged at 62kg. Mother nature finally visited this morning as well, five bloated and uncomfy days late. Bless Her.

My bento! With another umeboshi... fear me. It's a good pallet cleanser. Something to eat at the start of a meal, and the health benefits you see written about the demonic little things are uncountable... tja...

Monday's bento box. Made one similar for hubby. Just left overs from dinner last night.

This is the left over avocado, cucumber, sushi rice and the chicken teriyaki that I made on our fancy schmancy oriental plates. I have no clue what's written on them, but they worked perfectly for the soup, soy sauce and everything else.



This is my first attempt at making sushi. As you can tell, I had an awesome teacher! ;) This was sunday night's dinner.

Well it was BLECH! I expected a bit more of a pickled flavour, but it was like PURE salt inside mine. That is not something I will be willingly eating again.

I made my own sushi for dinner and hubby liked all of it, the kids didn't care for the miso soup, but it was good. I remembered that we had gotten an oriental dinner place setting from one of hubby's sisters, so I put it to use. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

And get this... hubby wanted his own bento box to take to work tomorrow. So with the leftovers, I made two boxes. And I went on the search and find for a box for him that will fit better in his laptop style bag.

Thank you for being an awesome sushi teacher Heather!

Truly Japanese bento box... the R'dam tokos are awesome :) I'm a bit scared of how that umeboshi (pickled "plum") will taste though.

This is my bento box that Heather made for me. One tuna onigiri, 3 avocado sushi rolls, small portions of buckwheat noodles, salmon and soy beans (YUMYUM). 1 mandarine, some raisins, walnuts and a japanese pickled plum, (i forget what the real name of them is), grapes, sweet red peppers and a half of a mo chi taro. I just need to get out my chopsticks and some soy sauce, and my lunch is ready for eating. Yeah!
Breakfast is a small handheld bowl of cruesli and lowfat yoghurt.
Is it lunch time yet? ;)

Sushi is really good, as long as I have enough soy sauce. ;)
Heather made me some awesome sushi, and lotsa yummy japanese courses.
Rice balls with red bean curd, wakame salad (which tasted better after she added the sauce to it than the wakame leaves tasted alone), Miso soup, buckwheat noodles with salmon and soy beans, which are REALLY good too. And homemade sushi. She made mine with just avocado, so without the raw fish, just something about raw anything makes me get the heebiegeebies... And we had a Mo chi taro for desert. That was tasty if weird.
Then she made me an awesome bento box for lunch tomorrow.
Thanks Heather!

This is my second bento. My radish rose is still in the freezer... (must be in ice water for 1 hour - lol). I'm taking this with my tonight when I go see Heather. I can't wait. I need some away time from my family. And I even have in there a little cake fork, cause I don't have any chopsticks yet, but that will all be solved on saturday!
Rice noodles are a pain in the arse if you want to make just a small amount. They don't break, they don't cut, and they don't want to be taken from the big group. But I persisted and use great force and cut off a small section to boil to add to my lunch. 1 carrot, 1/2 celery stalk, 5 slices of cucumber, 2 strawberries, 6 grapes, 1 mandarine, 3 mushrooms, 3 radishes, 2 yellow tomatoes, and another tortilla, this time with cream cheese, ham slices, lettuce and spinach.

Bento for saturday, since Sarah is coming up (yay!) and we're going toko shopping (double yay!) I didn't figure I'd have time to upload the pic. My knock-off box is so big I'm not really gonna bother with the bottom anymore. The top fits 400ml of stuff so that + some fruit is close enough to 500ml for lunch and snack for me. Which is a good amount, seeing as I'm pretty much a sedentary sloth... Exercise, meh... I should do more.

Everything for the day, till supper. My breakfast is always the lil bowl of oatmeal & raisins seen here.

My first try at putting my food into a box.

There is snijbonen, potatoes, a tortilla with cream cheese, chicken filet, lettuce and spinach, celery, mushrooms, carrots, grapes, strawberries, and yellow tomatoes!

Onigiri and cooked rice for in the freezer & future bentos...

Well I haven't yet got a box for making the bento things yet.
i will start that when I get my dragon box in the mail.

But i'll write my meals again with times like I have to write down for my dietist

7:00 am wakeup
8:00 am - glass water & meds, 1 banana
9:00 am - small glass bowl of cruesli with organic lowfat yoghurt and glass of water
10:30am - 1 mandarine and 500ml water
12:00noon - 1 slice brown bread with creamcheese and chicken filet, 1 slice brown bread with cream cheese and ham, 1 slice brown bread with blue band goede start halvarine and chicken filet, 1 slice of brown bread with blue band goede start halvarine and 1 slice goudse belegen cheese and 500ml water.
13:30 - 500ml water

The top of my fake box and some loooovely hello kitty chopsticks :X

Bento of today, in my chinese knock-off, and extremely oversized bento box. Was way too much food... Note the miso soup ball in the middle of the sandwich! OMNOMNOM...

Time to start over! Weight this week on Monday was 62kg.

I think pics alone should do it... in general for this blog, a nice record. All talk goes to MSN anyway!

Above is my bentobox from yesterday.