Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lunch on March 31, 2011

Today's lunch: cucumber stars with pomegranate seeds from Trader Joe's, California roll sushi from Gelson's, sugar plum tomatoes with hard boiled egg from Trader Joe's. Not shown: honey Greek yogurt and homemade granola from Arizmendi Bakery in San Francisco courtesy of my friend Emily.

Today's lunch is very cutesy courtesy of the "Japanese Tokyo Outlet" store I visited in Little Tokyo on Tuesday. I had to go downtown for Milkstars and noticed that my marker and grader was pretty close to 2nd and San Pedro where I knew I could take a look at some bento boxes (research for a new business idea, more to come on that later). I wasn't really impressed with the bentos I found but I did succeed in purchasing some fun lunch box "enhancers" (fascinators?) like hard boiled egg molds (this one is a bunny, it also came with a teddy bear face - both for $2.49) and a set of two small cookie cutters (one in the shape of a heart, the other a star - both for $1.99).

Although we did visit the Hollywood Farmer's Market this weekend, somehow almost everything in this lunch came from Trader Joe's.

7 comments:

  1. YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

    Maybe I'll start sending stuff in the tin for JuJu's lunch! I could bake something healthy...I think.

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  2. Our preschool has these standards too. A lot of them start state and federal standards - like a protein, a veg and a fruit, or two veg, or two fruit. It is hard to be so mindful all the time! Will they let you send fruit leather? This is the "sugary" snack I include - everybody needs dessert! The boys also like these Trader Joe's fruit bits (100% dried fruit, not sticky :)) We had had them in England and quickly exhausted our supply. These were as close as I could get in the US!

    I am so excited to follow this blog! Please can you include a link to the "egg enhancer"?

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  3. Yes I will. However I am a little scared that she will open her lunch box today and not understand that it's an egg and be really confused. But I am hoping she'll think it's really fun to eat a bunny egg. Here's hoping.

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  4. this is great, jamie! i'm getting some good ideas. does julian eat everything you put in her lunch? sophie is (dare i say) a selective eater. she'd eat everything there, but maybe just a bite or two of each. what do you do with the leftovers? save them for dinner?

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  5. Hi Gina,
    Thanks for the comment!
    This is a good question. We have only started to eat lunch at school recently and she does seem to eat most of what I pack and if she doesn't, I try to incorporate the leftovers into her after-nap-snack. Sometimes with success, sometimes without. I hate wasting food so I hope she continues to eat a lot of her lunch!

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  6. The cucumber pomegranate salad looks especially delicioso.

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  7. How LA?! Juju eats sushi for lunch!

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