Monday, March 15, 2010

Bento: Sweet canned meat


You might think the title of this blog is oxymoronic, and you might be right. However, around our house, it's been a couple of weeks since we did major grocery shopping, so I have the fun of working from our pantry stash. Sometimes this helps me come up with creative dinner ideas. Other times, such as this time, I end up doing something silly like packing canned meat in my husband's lunch. This particular variety is supposed to be "corned beef," so I am thinking of doing some semblance of a Reuben for the kids and me tomorrow. Nate doesn't like Reubens, so I had to think of some way to make his corned beef-ish stuff more appealing. Of course! Everything is better cut into cute little heart shapes. So here is it. I have lost the battery charger to my camera again, so you'll have to settle for a crappy camera phone pic. This lunch includes: shortbread heart cookies; woven wheat crackers; tangelo sections; hard boiled eggs, "corned beef" from a can, cut into little heart shapes. Who knows? He might just like it!

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