Gastly, Pokemon #092

Today's bento features the ghost/poison Pokemon called Gastly. After this initial stage it evolves into Haunter and eventually Gengar. Gastly are found in old buildings or cemeteries.

Ryan's Gastly lunch: grilled nutritional yeast chreese sandwich; rice cheese letters; soy cheese & tomato Pokeball; multigrain flax crackers; Gastly made of purple potato, purple cabbage, soy cheese & a bit of tomato for the mouth; steamed asparagus; meatless meatballs.

I wish I had the time to create more intricate bentos for Lost night, like Pikko at Adventures in Bentomaking! Her weekly Lost bentos make me eager for Maia to get past the baby stage so I can spend more time in the morning (or the night before) planning and prepping cool kyaraben and oekiben. Some day! Ever since visiting Oahu I've fantasized about making a really nifty Lost bento. Sigh. Maybe I'll have time to make something stunning for the series finale next year...waaahhh!

Speaking of Adventures In Bentomaking, there are still a few more days in March to enter to win a stainless steel bento from Life Without Plastic on her blog!

Snow & Ice

Woohoo! A bento for me! I made this to enjoy myself while watching Lost (on dvr), and I also entered it in the Adventures In Bentomaking 200K contest.

Monday:

AJ's snack: cold
tofu; animal cookies;
soba noodles; cucumber
slices; grapes.




Ryan's lunch: soba noodles; cucumber slices; animal cookies; blanched spinach; vegetable dumplings; dropper of soy sauce; cold tofu w/scallion.

At home I threw together
a muffin tin dinner: pickles,
carrots, spoonfuls of peanut
butter, mini pitas, edamame,
cherry tomatoes, almonds,
cucumber slices, grapes, apple
slices, whole wheat bagel
pieces, clementine segments,
and snow peas.

Tuesday:
Ryan's lunch: soy cheese; veggie crackers; black sesame crackers; a fresh apricot; mini banana blueberry muffin; mini pumpkin muffin; broccoli; grapes; almonds, peanuts & cashews.

AJ's snack: broccoli;
mini banana blueberry
muffin; black sesame
crackers; grapes.





Nate's lunch: chinese red
bean paste cookie; black
sesame crackers; mini
banana blueberry muffin;
grapes; broccoli; Nate's
meatless meatball.



Wednesday:
Snow day for everyone, except my husband who walked to work by himself. Snow & freezing rain kept us inside for the day.













Nate loves playing
with his toy planes.








I could probably eat our
entire 8 pound parnsip share
this way...as baked parsnip
"chips" dipped in my chili
chreez sauce. The boys
all loved them too.




Ryan hung a sign in
the dining room
proclaiming "Welcom
to Mamas Yumey
Resternot".





Thursday:
Nate's lunch: forelle pear; broccoli; grapes; mini pitas w/edamame hummus & cucumber; animal cookies; mini pumpkin muffin; carrot sticks.

AJ's snack: flat
pretzels; forelle
pear; grapes;
mini pitas w/
edamame hummus
& cucumber.

For edamame hummus,
sub 1 cup cooked edamame
for 1/2 the chickpeas in
my hummus recipe.

Ryan's school had another snow day due to the icy sidewalks.

Friday:
Ryan's
lunch:
inari
footballs
for
the
Superbowl
this
sunday;
cucumber
strips
over a
bed of
hummus;
baby
corn;
Tofurky
slice
pompom;
Good Dog bites; broccoli pompom; soy cheese XLIII. There is also a side of 2 white & dark chocolate chip cookies.