I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese.
Chicken Caesar wrap
Thank you, Costco! A chicken Caesar wrap sandwich and sweet cherries from my Costco run yesterday. I like how they wrap the sandwich in pretty paper to keep it all together — think I’ll look for nice paper for wrapping homemade sandwiches. Would work better than a toothpick, at any rate.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
August 1st, 2006 | Categories: bento, poultry, sandwich or wrap | 
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Salmon & purple lunch
Purple cauliflower (a nod to drv1913 on Flikr), raisins, English muffin, cherry tomatoes, wild salmon, and sauteed chili/garlic asparagus and orange bell peppers. Under the raisins is a container of mustard/fennel/cream sauce for the salmon and cauliflower. Packed in my new 810ml box (pretty big, but not huge).
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
July 31st, 2006 | Categories: bento, fish or seafood | Print This Post
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Wrap brunch bento for mom/toddler
Yesterday I discovered that my son would eat sandwich wraps, but only if he got it in one big wrap, without being cut into little bite-size servings. So this one was a real quickie — threw together a ham, cheese, and roasted bell pepper wrap, and some blueberries, tomatoes and Laughing Cow cheese. We split it in the morning while we were out running errands. Packed in my two-tier 600ml box.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
July 28th, 2006 | Categories: bento, for kids, meat, sandwich or wrap | Print This Post
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Zarusoba & Lizano chicken x 3 bentos
Mother and son bentos have:
- zarusoba curled into nests, with soba tsuyu (bottled dipping sauce) and green onions and wasabi for the sauce
- roast chicken tossed in Lizano sauce
- roasted and marinated bell peppers
- not shown: kizami nori sprinkled on the zarusoba
My husband also got a salad with toppings of red bell pepper, feta, toasted pine nuts, green onions and kaiware (daikon sprouts). Vinaigrette is in the sauce container with the chicken.Packed in our Nissan Stainless thermal lunch jar.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
July 27th, 2006 | Categories: bento, for kids, lactose free, pasta or noodles, poultry, salad, thermal lunch jar | Print This Post
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Tarako spaghetti x 3 bentos
Sadly, today I accidentally cracked the lid of the blue bento box below. At 490ml, it was the perfect size one-tier box for me… *sniff*
Tarako spaghetti with red peppers, onions, kaiware (daikon sprouts) and kizami nori. I’ve got nectarines in a separate container, and my son has Laughing Cow cheese in his. Everything in the toddler bento is cut smaller. My husband got his bento in a larger box behind the cut.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
