More bento

Lot's of these Bento sites say things like "morning prep time 10 minutes". It's clear I don't have 10 minutes in the morning*. The best I'm going to manage is taking pre-packed boxes out of the fridge and throwing them into my rucksack. Since I worked from home yesterday I gave myself a long lunch-break and cooked more rice. This time I moulded it into "onigiri balls" using salted damp hands (although no one gives advice on how to do that - I ended up running my hands under the tap and then grinding salt into the palm of one) - this is supposed to give the rice more flavour, and I certainly found it pretty dull in my previous bentos. I put one into my box this morning and it seemed more palatable, although there was less of it. I also bought some onion bhajis so added one as well. I'm not sure what goes in onion bhajis - onion, obviously, the rest looks kind of lentilly to me and, knowing very little about nutrition I'm going with an assumption that lentils count as carbohydrate (I'm still vaguely trying to go by the bento proportion guidelines). I also hard-boiled three eggs (not yet used) and made up two pots of greek salad (one of which went into todays lunch).

I'm not sure about the combination of greek salad, rice and onion bhaji - the bhaji seemed a bit after-thought-ish when I ate it.


* actually this morning I did end up with 10 minutes but only because I was running late anyway and discovered the slow leak in my back tyre had reached the weekly point when it needs to be pumped up. By the time I'd done that it was clear I would miss the train and so might as well wait 20 minutes and then set off in time for the next one.