obento - 15 july, 2008


Today's obento is not very exciting from a culinary standpoint but it's a good example of how non-Japanese you can do these things and still have reasonably well-balanced meal (although I'd say the sodium content in this one is not particularly well balanced, heh).





In the bottom tier: herb and butter pasta with broccoli. In the top tier: strawberry slices and blueberries, meatballs, yellow bell pepper with mini flower carrot cutouts. Not pictured is the pre-workout snack case with a sliced carrot and one serving of roasted soy nuts.

Nutritional Info (I'm going to try to include this from now on)
lime version:
495 calories (+ 124)
9 grams saturated fat (+.5)
1228 mg sodium (+63)
21 grams protein (+12)
50 grams carbs (+4)

umi version:
415 calories (+124)
6 grams saturated fat (+.5)
1015 mg sodium (+63)
16.5 grams protein (+12)
48 grams carbs (+4)

I am very tired and worn out today thanks to an ass-kicking workout class yesterday (ballet! :) so I slept in pretty late. Well actually I woke up at the normal time, put some meatballs in the oven to bake (I don't like microwaved meat) for 35 minutes, cooked up the pasta, then went back to sleep for 20 minutes, then got up to take the meatballs out, sliced the veggies, put everything in the box, and went back to sleep until 11. Heh.

Meatballs are from giant Costco bag o' meatballs, pasta is Annie's herb and butter pasta packet with broccoli added. Several Annie's pasta packs, including this one, have a TON of sodium in them and I will not be buying them again. This one was about to expire so into the obento it goes. Now I am just about out of not-good-for-you packaged food (the only ready-made things I have are very carefully selected these days and used sparingly). With all that sodium and so many carbs at lunch I am thinking maybe dinner is going to have to be handmade low-sodium squash soup and a big salad. ^_^;