I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese.
English muffin sandwich and fruit
Maybe I just felt like a breakfast sandwich because I packed this in the morning when I’m hungry… Packed in my 480ml Asvel box.
- homemade McMuffin-type sandwich, with ham, scrambled eggs and cream cheese mixed with caramelized onions and Cajun spice
- blueberries
- whole Saturn peach (a new kind of white peach that’s small and flat — fits perfectly into a bento box
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- 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 19th, 2006 | Categories: bento, eggs, meat, sandwich or wrap | 
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Mini-sandwiches and gold kiwi
Made these with rye cocktail bread, two sandwiches deep.
- sandwiches: 1) ham, slivered onions, mustard, and cream cheese with caramelized onions and Creole seasoning 2) Marmite & cheese, 3) Branston pickle & cheese, 4) peanut butter & blackcurrant jam
- plums: big one from the store, little ones I picked from a nearby tree
- gold kiwi
- sauteed broccolini, mushrooms & onions with Thai oyster sauce & lime juice
- pepperoncini
- quail eggs
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- 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 18th, 2006 | Categories: bento, eggs, meat, sandwich or wrap | Print This Post
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North Carolina pulled pork sandwich
Spent Sunday smoking a couple of pork butts on our kludged-together flowerpot smoker for pulled pork sandwiches. All packed in my Nissan Stainless thermal lunch jar to keep the cole slaw fresh and cool.
- bun cut to fit the container
- homemade pulled pork, smoked for 15 hours
- vinegar hot sauce for the pork
- homemade buttermilk coleslaw
- blackberries and “mango nectarines” — a new kind of nectarine with a slight taste/texture of mangos (quite good!)
Here’s the pork shoulder on the smoker.
Insulated smoker kludged together from flower pots and an electric coil burner a la Alton Brown’s Good Eats — our first smoker (details here). We’re looking at getting a proper smoker now that we’re really into it.
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July 17th, 2006 | Categories: meat, salad, sandwich or wrap, thermal lunch jar | Print This Post
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Yellow shrimp curry and somen
Somen two ways: it can either be dipped into the warm curry, or eaten as is with the somen tsuyu sauce. I packed the curry in my small 300ml Nissan Thermos food jar, and the rest in my two-tiered 600ml bento box. Lighter than the full-on thermal lunch jar, and this should fit nicely into my husband’s messenger bag.
- Thai yellow curry with shrimp, broccoli and red pepper
- two layers of cold somen noodles curled into bite-sized nests for easy eating
- somen tsuyu (sauce to be squeezed over the cold noodles)
- English cucumbers cut with a wavy slicer
- the last of the cherry tomatoes
- little pudding with a tiny spoon tucked below
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 14th, 2006 | Categories: bento, curry, fish or seafood, food jar, pasta or noodles, tips | Print This Post
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Kimchi spam fried rice
No bells and whistles today, just flavor and comfort food. Fried rice with kimchi, spam, carrots, orange bell pepper, enoki mushrooms and onions, plus a snack container of blueberries.
My toddler son’s bento is below — it’s the same as my husband’s, but everything is cut up very small so my he doesn’t choke. Packed in my small 240ml Asvel bento 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
