Incredible pancake art – Cheshire cat, Dr. Seuss
Awesome, huh? Jenni Price has tons of spectacular pancake creations (and so do her kids!). I’m happy to manage some pink hearts or pancake cereal….so the bad boys she comes up with are beyond amazing.
Quirky midnight snacks – Strange cravings are meant to be indulged
Some people need their food to be separated neatly on plates with no edges or sauces touching.
Me? I have no issues mixing foods. In fact, I often go out of my way to eat multiple foods together at once, even if it’s not the traditional way to eat them.
Khorre teases me on a regular basis about my once nightly habit of eating spaghetti and boiled* eggs. I couldn’t get enough of them and it took weeks to kick the craving.
Others aren’t really strange to me at all, but because I’ve walked through the kitchen with a bowl more than once and gotten a “Really Jessi? Seriously??” I figure maybe they’re not as normal as I suspected. So this last month, I started taking pictures of some of my snack fests, just in case.
Spaghetti, french fries, ketchup, and yes, brown mustard there, too. I wish I could say I tried to keep them separated, but most bites had some of each.
Chips dipped straight into the avocado. What? Sometimes I don’t want to bother with the knife and spoon process.
Orzo rice with french onion dip gravy, along side lettuce and salsa for a pseudo-salad.
Lamb. We’ll leave it at that. Shhh.
This one’s normal, right? Quick sandwich of bologna I got for free, sliced tomatoes, avocado, and Italian dressing.
Leftover corn on the cob….no butter, no salt, eaten over my laptop. Not exactly the cleanest snack, but could be worse.
Cream cheese and pepperoni sandwiches
Who am I kidding? I don’t take the time to make several mini-sandwiches. It’s usually eaten more like this:
Dipping pepperoni in a spoonful of cream cheese is much more convenient. Hey, I never claimed they were healthy snacks…
*If it’s hard-boiled, I add butter. If it’s soft-boiled, I let the yolk make the creaminess and just add salt and pepper as usual.
Bento, bento, bento – Filling a 2.5 cup box with randomness
Japanese bento boxes are measured in milliliters, so that 2.5 cups is a 600mL bento. The really cool part about portion control like this is that for authentic boxes, the capacity is supposed to also line up with about how many calories are in the box.
LIAB has some really awesome charts for how large bento boxes should be based on age or height. It also has various breakdowns of ratios of food groups to be in each box. So for example, the general rule is 3 parts grain, 2 parts vegetable, and occasionally things like meat, fish, dairy or fruits, but no candy, junk food, or fatty foods.
On some days, that 600mL of food seems like an absolute ton. Other days, I feel like I’m not sending enough food. It just depends on what I’m sending that day and just how crammed I make the boxes. I haven’t been following a set ratio, but tend to lean toward having a main grain dish, sometimes 2, a veggie portion, and fruit. They’re big fruit eaters and this meal is when they usually get their fix for that.
Most days tend to be completely different (read: completely random), even if I’m repeating various sides and using the same proportions
Here’s some of the boxes from the last few weeks:
- Brown rice with peas, onions, soy sauce
- A row of green beans
- Steelhead nuggets
- Grapes
- Peanut butter with crackers, alternated with banana slices
- Salmon with spicy diced tomatoes
- 12 grain cracker things for the fish
- Boiled egg
- Sliced oranges
- Pretzel sticks
- Ants on a log, celery with peanut butter and raisins
- Taco pockets (recipe soon)
- Twix bar from Easter (shhh, it’s breaking the no-sugar rule)
- Boiled egg
- Celery and peanut butter
- Prunes (yay for them liking prunes, woo)
- Blueberries in the ziploc bag
- Leftover fish taco, rolled like a burrito
- Vegetable straws
- Homemade pineapple mango fruit roll up leather
- Half a banana
- Leftover jambalaya
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