Month: August 2024

Pickle Falafel Bento Number Two

I like the design of this kids’s monbento box a lot. Although I wish they had a size between 500mL and 700mL. I usually find that 600 mL sized boxes are a good fit for me.

  • 5 trader joes pickle falafel (100 calories)
  • an extremely overmicrowaved potato (not sure. Maybe 20 calories at most?)
  • quick pickles (negligible)
  • steamed broccoli (maybe 10 calories)
  • cherry tomato (negligible)
  • leftover sauteed asparagus (30 calories)
  • leftover tofu teriyaki (about 70 calories)
  • jasmine rice (180 calories)

This was also posted to my reddit account

Pickle Falafel Bento

Made a little 500 cal falafel bento this morning.
Trader Joes Mini Pickle Falafel: 200 calories for 10.
Quinoa Tabbouleh: About 300 calories.

The mini pickle falafel are pretty weird. I like pickles and I like falafel but I’m not sure I like them at the same time. The texture was good though even though I microwaved it. I wish they had the same falafel but not pickle flavored.

Purple Rice Chinese Food Bento

I made some food out of The Vegan Chinese Kitchen the other day and had leftovers. I really like this cookbook. It has exactly the same flavor profile as the food I ate when I was in Taiwan.

This bento would be pretty un-colorful otherwise due to the paleness of the gan tofu so I went out of my way to make purple rice. I made the rice purple by adding in some grains from a zakkokumai packet while the rice was cooking. 

This is about a 460 calorie bento.

Purple rice with Edamame: About 190 calories.

Leftover Braised Tofu Sheets with Pepper (Jian Jiao Gan Dou Fu): About 170 calories.

Stir Fried Broccoli with Sichuan Pepper: About 50 calories.

Half a folded Just Egg: About 50 calories.

I originally got the folded just eggs thinking I was going to make vegan bacon egg and cheeses. But the vegan bacons are just not up to par yet…