Friday, April 13, 2012

Lunch For The Man: Airplane Food

Sailor Boy had to travel for work recently. Not on a ship though, he went by plane - so I packed him an EasyLunchbox to eat in the air.


He has grapes, kiwifruit, carrots, almonds, pistachios, blueberries, and black forest ham & mozzarella cheese rolls. I folded the cheese into the ham before I rolled and skewered it. Everything bite-size and mess-free.

I wanted to separate his foods but didn't want him to take any of my silicone muffin cups, and I stopped buying the disposable kind - but I save just about everything I think might be repurposed, so I dug up some plastic cups that once contained frosting in the ends of tubes of refrigerated cinnamon roll dough, and some medicine cups that came with cold syrup. Applesauce cups would have worked well too but I couldn't have fit as many.
I should have taken a photo from the side to show you - it's kind of hard to tell from the top - but the rims of all the little cups reach right to the lid when it's snapped in place. Everything was held securely enough that I was able to turn it completely sideways with nothing shifting or spilling over - perfect for traveling with the man :)



12 comments:

  1. I love how nicely the carrots fit in the cup...making a beautiful carrot flower :)

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    1. I did have to trim them to fit Corey :) But no waste, the trimmed bits went into the bento scrap soup stock freezer bag!

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  2. How do you make even the simplest lunches look SO BEAUTIFUL! *jealous* :)

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  3. So yummy...and you packed it so well :)

    Oliko
    www.cutiepiecooking.blogspot.com

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  4. This is brilliant Cristi! What a great use of those little take out containers. Every day is Earth Day :)

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  5. Wow -- looks delicious! I have the Easylunchboxes. Where can I get the little cups? Thanks!

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    1. The smaller ones are dosage cups that come with medicines like NyQuil and Pepto-Bismol , and the larger ones came in rolls of Pillsbury refrigerated cinnamon rolls - they held the frosting.

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  6. wow..great idea. I never thought of that.

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  7. Gorgeous Bento as always! I've nominated you for The Versatile Blogger Award - http://www.yummyinspirations.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/breakfast-in-jar-versatile-blogger.html

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