Homemade Convenience Foods

When I am in the middle of working on a play, as I am now (stage managing Steel Magnolias at Magenta Theater, whoo!) I tend to eat whatever I have on hand that I can grab and go. So I took an evening and made up what I think of as homemade convenience food. I prepared a number of veggie trays with little snack hummus packs that I got at Costco. See:

I made up a bunch of them and then when I was on my way out the door I could just grab and go!

What are some of your favorite grab and go snacks?

7% Vegetarian

I have always proudly declared myself to be a carnivore.  On our first date, I suggested Bryan take me to a BBQ place.  I figured, if the date was a flop - at least I would get to eat good meat!

So (with all this emphasis on tasty animal flesh) it should really not come as much of a surprise that I have not tried a huge number of veggies.  In fact, according to the Vegetarian's Hundred posted recently by Breadchick, I am only 7% vegetarian.  *wink*

Go check out the list of vegetarian "must tries" and see how many of them you've had.

Enjoy!

• P.S.  If you are missing seeing bento pictures like the one above, head on over to Not Exactly Bento and vote on her recent bento contest.  There are 60 entries to sink your teeth into!

The bento formally known as frozen

Bento #39 was hot! (By which I mean I microwaved it right before eating.) And a good thing, too... because it has been really cold in the cafeteria lately at the middle school I work at.

This bento contains:

• 5 fresh tomatoes picked from my garden this morning (Can I just say again how astonished I am to be picking tomatoes in the morning, and watching it snow in the evening! What a crazy November this is.)
• A frozen Boca pattie with carrot peelings on top for decoration
• frozen corn
• frozen stir-fry vegetables
• maple chipotle grille sauce (hidden beneath the Boca burger)

I was thinking to myself as I ate my lunch today, that I had packed a bento even my vegan friends could enjoy. Being something of a carnivore myself, I found this worthy of comment.

Thanks for reading!