{"id":1857,"date":"2016-07-10T19:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:46:41","slug":"bento-im-sorry-ive-cheated-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/10\/bento-im-sorry-ive-cheated-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Bento, I\u2019m Sorry I\u2019ve Cheated on You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t been eating properly lately. I’ve been buying my lunch at work, and have even been buying muffins for breakfast in the morning. The foolishness of this came to a head the other day when I felt a blood sugar drop in the late morning from a combination of too much sugar and too much coffee. I haven’t had that happen in years<\/em>, and it was disturbing to have it happen in front of a class that I had to muscle through before I could stop and do something about it. Better to eat the high-protein breakfast and not be an idiot, right?<\/p>\n

Not to mention the fact that it’s a lot more expensive than packing my own lunch. So, I took a serious look at my bad eating habits and decided I’m going to clean up my act for health’s sake, right?<\/p>\n

I’m totally not. It wasn’t that I almost fainted in front of a class. Nope. The thing that pulled me up short was doing the books and being honest with myself about how much I was spending. I’d rather spend that money on books or something. It was just that lately I’ve been to damn lazy to make bento for myself.<\/p>\n

I have some new bento boxes that I’m using now. They’re by Bentgo<\/a>, and honestly? They’re enormous<\/strong>! My usual bento is like this 600ml job. The lower section of this lunchbox is that large!<\/p>\n

But in a way, I’m okay with that as well. Remember when I was talking about buying muffins for breakfast because we were going in too early to have a proper breakfast at home?<\/p>\n

I can totally make a breakfast bento in the upper half, then our usual lunch bento in the lower half. ‘Sall good.<\/p>\n

I got to thinking about these boxes, though, and what kind of lunches I could make in them that wouldn’t be far too large, and realized that the smart thing to do would be to have the top portion reserved for carbs-n-protein and then pack the bottom with fruit and veggies. I like fresh veggies a lot, so this would be a fun way to make some lunches. I’ll be posting some of the ones I make as I come up with stuff.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I feel like a bit of a fraud talking about making bento and stuff \u2013 how healthy it is. How much cheaper it is. How nice they are. ‘Sall true, mind, but\u2026<\/p>\n

I’m leaving my full time office job. Now, I work as hard for Figart Consulting<\/a> as I ever do in an office. You work harder for yourself. It’s a thing. Anyone who is self-employed will back me on that one.<\/p>\n

But the work flow is very<\/em> different. You might be up and working at six in the morning (that’s my favorite time to write), but you’ll take a break around ten to putter around the house, talk to yourself about what you want to do next, then get back to work doing something else for a few hours. Oh, it adds up, and cumulatively, you work more hours, but they’re paced differently. You don’t have as many interruptions, and you likely have a million times more privacy. You get more done. That really<\/em> adds up.<\/p>\n

So, when I am sitting here writing about bento, I’m doing it as a work from home kinda gal (well, at least starting next week). I can make those bento on a fifteen minute break from working. Can’t do that from an office!<\/p>\n

And for anyone who is asking me why in the world I’d start thinking more about making bento when I’ve got my mind on working from home? It’s twofold.<\/p>\n

The first is that my husband still works from an office. If I send a bento in with him, he’s <\/em>not buying lunch unless it’s a necessary socialization thing occasionally, himself. The savings add up there, too. Not to mention, I’d just as soon he eats healthily.<\/p>\n

The other reason is that when you work from home, you work close to a fully-stocked kitchen. Buddy, you want <\/em>to have a nice, healthy lunch to grab out of the fridge. You want that healthy lunch to be easiest <\/em>thing to do when you’re hungry. You might be able to talk yourself out of “wasting” money on the muffin, but you don’t have that argument available from your house<\/em>. At least I don’t. I’m a good cook. I want the bar to the healthy option as low as possible, or I totally will<\/em> make that apple crumble in the toaster oven, ya know?<\/p>\n

Do you have ways that you try to make it easy to eat the way you feel best eating? What do you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been eating properly lately. I’ve been buying my lunch at work, and have even been buying muffins for breakfast in the morning. The foolishness of this came to a head the other day when I felt a blood sugar drop in the late morning from a combination of too much sugar and too … <\/p>\n

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