{"id":696,"date":"2010-03-24T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:44:13","slug":"nutrition-ur-doin-it-rong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/24\/nutrition-ur-doin-it-rong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition.  UR DOIN IT RONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maki over at JustBento has written a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/justbento.com\/handbook\/bento-culture\/bento-tidbits-japan-readymade-bento-foods-supermarket\">ready-made food<\/a> and how it\u2019s used in bento in Japan.\u00a0 Basically it blows a hole in the idea that all Japanese mothers get up at five in the morning to craft perfectly healthy and perfectly beautiful lunchboxes for their families, made from scratch and at the peak of nutritional balance. A busy mother scrambling to feed her kids is going to behave like any busy mother scrambling to feed her kids.\u00a0 This may include pre-packaged food!\u00a0 If you find Bento interesting, do check out the site, by the way.\u00a0 She\u2019s not into charaben (character bento), but is more into bento as a way to have healthy meals on the go.<\/p>\n<p>I have used pre-packaged food in a bento once or twice \u2013 a prime example being my <a href=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/18\/bad-mama-bento\/\">Bad Mama Bento<\/a> at the end of school last year for my son.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something I personally do often, as at least part of my bento motivation is to get away from too many preservatives and go for a better nutritional balance in at least some of the meals we eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Photo_032410_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-695\" style=\"margin: 3px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Burger Bento\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Photo_032410_001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A bento with hamburger, corn muffin, strawberries, cucumbers and kumquats\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>But it\u2019s hardly like my own bento are the pictures of nutritional perfection.\u00a0 This bento has two itty bitty hamburger patties (ooohhh!!\u00a0 Scawwwy evil\u00a0 fat in ground beef) and a corn muffin.\u00a0 Corn=Evil in some minds.\u00a0 I\u2019ll point out that HFCS and CORN are two different products.\u00a0 \u00a0(Though the muffin <em>was<\/em> home-made, so no weird ingredients I can\u2019t pronounce).\u00a0\u00a0 You can find something to criticize\u00a0 in almost anything if you want to.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s probably why a lot of people throw up their hands about nutrition and eating well.\u00a0 You\u2019re constantly bombarded with the message that whatever you\u2019re doing is WRONG WRONG WRONG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maki over at JustBento has written a great article on ready-made food and how it\u2019s used in bento in Japan.\u00a0 Basically it blows a hole in the idea that all Japanese mothers get up at five in the morning to craft perfectly healthy and perfectly beautiful lunchboxes for their families, made from scratch and at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/24\/nutrition-ur-doin-it-rong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nutrition.  UR DOIN IT RONG&#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-696","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\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}