Oop, the latest WordPress update almost broke my recipe card plug in but thankfully it seems to have fixed things. This week I tried not to just make boring salads every day but it’s not always the easiest to do that.

Tortilla soup, crackers and cheese, boiled egg, terrible lighting

Chicken noodle soup, bread for dipping, salad, apple

Curried lentils, rice, salad

Turkeyloaf, pasta with cream sauce, spinach/tomato salad, italian mandarins

Vegetable couscous, roast potatoes, side salad, apple

Some weeks you just get to a weird theme (or really, a rut) which is why this week there is just so much rice going on. Especially in the winter it’s hard to resist the siren song of carbs but hopefully next week will be more interesting carbs at least!

Leftovers from Georgian restaurant (minced chicken liver with spices, cheese dumpling), rye bread, side salad Vegetable Quiche, Salad, Grapes Honey and Soy Chicken, Rice, Green Beans with Yellow Pepper, Apple Chickpea and Vegetable Curry, Rice, Side Salad Trash Casserole, Salad

Andrew requested that I try to add a salad to every bento so you’re going to get sick of seeing all these side salads but I’ll try to keep things a little interesting at least so I don’t get bored either.

Vegetable Stir Fry, Side Salad with Cherry Tomatoes

Japanese Style Chicken Curry, Rice, Side Salad, Apple

Pelmeni, Caprese Salad, Apple

Chickpea Curry, Couscous, Side Salad with Chicken

I don’t know how but Thanksgiving really snuck up on me this year so this is the last week before I totally buy every food on Earth and cook a ridiculous meal for just the two of us (they don’t do Thanksgiving here). Enjoy the week’s lunches in picture form in the meantime.

Double bean chili, cornbread, apple Aloo Puff, Salad, Apple, Carrots and Hummus Turkey Burger, Green Beans, Roasted Potatoes, Apple and Hot Sauce Chicken and Dumplings, Green Beans, Rice with Zucchini Turkey Burger, Spiced Potatoes, Green Bean, Chocolate

Last week has a huge downer and I feel like you can actually see that in my food. Even though I managed to make a whopping all five lunches I feel like they’re less cute and less interesting than they had any right to be. Also, so many apple. So many.

Caramelized Onion and goat cheese tart, side salad, tomato soup, apple Baked Chicken with Apple and Rosemary, Spiced Rice, Carrots and Hummus, Kiwi Lentil Falfel, Yogurt Sauce, Couscous, Apple Vegetable Lasagna, Side Salad, Apple and Kiwi Squash and White Bean Saute, Cornbread, Apple

This week the theme was basically just nice hearty comfort food to herald in the cold weather. There’s plenty more delicious comfort foods in our future, chicken and dumplings comes to mind but that’ll have to wait for another week.

Breakfast Roll Up, Roasted Sweet Potato, Side Salad, Apple

Homemade Spaghettios with meatballs, salad, bread, apple

Baked Chicken, Green Beans and Tomatoes, Spiced Rice, Chocolate and an Orange

Spinach Mac and Cheese, Sliced Orange, Coleslaw

Just a few simple ones from the week. Sometimes you gotta just keep things easy and moving I suppose.

Pasta with vegetable sauce, side salad, rye bread, apple

Mini homemade vegetable pizza (zucchini, pepper, onion), chocolate, carrots and hummus

Chicken tikka masala, rice, grapes

Minestrone, side salad, white bread

I actually made all 5 days of lunch this week instead of 4 just on a whim. I don’t think it’s any harder or easier to do so but I feel pretty satisfied about it anyway.

Turkey sandwich, kiwi, boiled egg, pickles, carrots and red peppers with hummus

Roast Drumsticks with Potatoes and Carrots, Salad, and Apple

Creamy Broad Beans, Rice, Hot Sauce, Greens with Orange Segments

Chickpea Curry, Rice, Apple

Creamy Chicken Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Rice, Bread, Pickles, Kiwi and Orange

These are pretty uninspired but hey, sometimes you just eat so you don’t die. That said at least I made four distinct bentos over the week so it’s a win anyway!

Apple, edam and crackers, pasta with spinach

Turkey, potato, and cheese casserole, cucumber salad, banana

General Tso’s Cauliflower, rice with grated carrot and sesame, Banana and Oranges

Goat cheese, pear, and black pepper scone, cucumber salad, boiled eggs, pear and apple

On Tuesday I had packed lunch for Andrew for two days and he accidentally took BOTH meals so lunch was a bit strange for the week. That’s also why there’s a picture of my lunch on Wednesday instead of his. Best rest assured, it was the same :p

Chicken noodle soup, white bread for dipping, black grapes

Rolled vegetable omelette, rice with homemade furikake, and quick salted pickles

Roasted chicken, curry fried eggplant, mashed potatoes

Salad with apple and walnut, boiled egg, quick salted pickles, vegetable cornmeal fritters