Today’s lunch is something we sometimes have for dinner at our house – 3 Topped Rice. It’s a bowl of rice topped with 3 things – egg, ground chicken, and peas. I took those same ingredients and made it into a bento, and added some purple potato flowers and a carrot ribbon. I made panda onigiri, and when I tucked the panda soy sauce bottle in there, I thought it looked like the three bears – Chinese style!
For the pandas I used a panda face punch, that I bought at All Things For Sale, here it is if you want to see what it looks like.
the carrot ribbon was also really easy – I used a vegetable peeler to peel some long strips, and I laid them on top of a pot of rice when it was almost done cooking. The steam from the rice cooked the carrot perfectly, and it was soft enough to bend into a bow shape. It took 3 strips to make the bow, BTW. Here’s a closer look:
Here’s my food plans for the day:
breakfast – I felt sick from the treat I ate yesterday ( it was ice cream) AND the treat meal we ate last night (we went out for tacos and tater tots – it was 103 degrees yesterday, and I didn’t feel like cooking at all) SO… I ate a very small bowl of whole grain cereal with milk this morning. Bleh. My body really doesn’t like it when I eat junk food. 
snack – 1 cup greek yogurt with berries
lunch – the 3 bears bento shown above, with one extra rice ball ( to equal 1/2 cup rice) and an apple
snack – Right Light ice cream, which is a protein shake frozen in an ice cream maker – you can take any protein shake and make it into ice cream! SO yummy! That’s what I SHOULD have had yesterday…
dinner – this will be the dinner we would have had yesterday – baked potato, lean steak, and salad. No junk food : )
Hope it’s not too hot where you are – today will be another 103 degree day for us!
Some things I used in today’s lunch:
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