one thing that helps ME with portion control (and eating healthier) is to make my food pretty. a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach.

this goes double since there is SO much i cant or wont eat, that many of the things other people use to punch up the flavor or etc are not available.

(  supplies in the local stores right now )

well, business has been (over all) very slow. YES i have had some very good events, but i have had far too many "normally good" events where i lost money or barely broke even ( Read more... )

these are NOT classic Bento boxes (or even close, really) but many of us Bento fans also like the Laptop Lunchbox system..  AND many of the folks on my Flist have people who need to (or want to) pack lunches, or practice portion control.....
and none of us like spending too much money....

the webpage has a sale going on on the original "Laptop ( Read more... )

i have been trying to get some "spring cleaning" done. .... can you tell i am way behind schedule? i mean its ONLY midsummer....

The house is pretty much a disaster.  part of the storage problem in the house is because we don't have a storage locker anymore.  (well except for the one at Pennsic).  The more stuff you cram into a  row home, the harder ( Read more... )

In brief? I bought some lunch boxes, and am babbling about diet, recipes, bento, how neat the new toys lunch boxes are and so on....
feel free to ignore......

Now that i have your attention.........
after reading about a lunch box on one of the LJ communities about Bento boxes, probably "
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