{"id":480,"date":"2009-09-05T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2009-09-05T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:32:25","slug":"big-plate-tiny-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/05\/big-plate-tiny-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Plate, Tiny Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3610\/3480896667_7260a5c9a3_m.jpg\" alt=\"A Packed Bento\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3494\/3890544010_a2a99ed89b_m.jpg\" alt=\"The Same Food, But On a Plate\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I did this mostly as an experiment for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosdiet.com\">No-S Diet<\/a>, though I was pretty sure of the answer.\u00a0\u00a0 The plate on the right is what I&#8217;d put in a bento box, though arranged in a more compact fashion.<\/p>\n<p>It makes an interesting point about portion control as well as eating a variety.\u00a0 I&#8217;m generally much more careful to pack a variety of itty-bitty portions in a bento than I am when I put a meal on a plate<sup>1<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it does show that the &#8220;one-plate&#8221; rule of the No-S Diet is some pretty decent portion control!<\/p>\n<p>So, when you go on about the &#8220;tiny&#8221; bento boxes, realize it&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s compact.\u00a0 The plate isn&#8217;t a &#8220;tiny&#8221; lunch to most people&#8217;s minds!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>I&#8217;ve also become constitutionally incapable of eating an apple without cutting it into something cute.  Please don&#8217;t laugh at me.  I&#8217;m helpless in the face of it, and therapy probably won&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did this mostly as an experiment for my No-S Diet, though I was pretty sure of the answer.\u00a0\u00a0 The plate on the right is what I&#8217;d put in a bento box, though arranged in a more compact fashion. It makes an interesting point about portion control as well as eating a variety.\u00a0 I&#8217;m generally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/05\/big-plate-tiny-bento\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Plate, Tiny Bento&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bento","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}