Quick and easy lettuce wrap lunch
While I have bento box envy from Kate, I made my own, quick bento box lunch this weekend to take in the car as we drove a mere 15 minutes to go visit some family. Pressed for time, and with no gf bread in the house, I made some turkey and bacon lettuce wraps. Complete with mustard, mayo and grape tomatoes, the only thing I forgot to put on was salt and pepper. But add some crisp, fresh orange pepper (which I love) and you’ve got a quick, healthy fresh lunch. With no official bento box, I used a Rubbermaid container which worked just fine. And bonus, eating in the car forced the Artist to drive so I could eat.
On another note, as a little pick me up, the Artist and I bought some frozen french fries and tater tots this weekend as a treat. I’m not a big “tots” fan, but the Ore-Ida bags actually had “gluten free” on the label, so we had to buy them. Thanks, Heinz for labeling your products.
That’s it for now…
GFS
Ha! I like it. Rubbermaid’s never been used so elegantly, I’m sure
Hey Steve — how are you?! I love using Napa cabbage for my wraps. Tuna or salmon salad make a great stuffing for making little boats out of the cabbage. As for the bento boxes — oh, how I wish for a pink Hello Kitty bento box with matching chop stix!
Take care,
Melissa
I had bento box envy when I checked out some of the elegant offerings on the web. Then I found my cute little Hello Kitty boxes at Deals for $1! I bought an extra set for a friend who is just starting down the gf trail. I chose the green over pink (to match my lunch bag,) and mine came with a matching fork that stores in the lid. They make lunchtime cheerful every day!
The linen napkin (or placemat?) is a nice touch!
Beautiful … Rubbermaid container and all! LOL Aesthetically pleasing foods ALWAYS taste better, too. Looks very healthy as well.
I really enjoyed Kate’s posts about the Bento boxes, too. BTW, Gluten Free Living’s blog says that Deborah Hamilton was the “founder” of Bento boxes when she started making lunches in them for her husband who was diagnosed with celiac and later undiagnosed and no longer needed to eat gluten free (side note: big hmmm on that). I don’t know if she was the founder … Bento boxes go WAY back, but she had lived in Japan earlier and has certainly popularized them with her website, http://lunchinabox.net/. Certainly making a lunch in one would make you feel special
and help avoid the multiple containers I juggle with daily.
Thanks, Kay, for the Deals tip! I will check it out.
@Shirley: Hey there, it’s Deborah Hamilton (“Biggie”) of Lunch in a Box. There’s no WAY I “founded” bento boxes — they were around in Japan for a LONG time before I was ever born!
My husband was actually misdiagnosed with celiac disease in late 2004, but when he went to the (then-) new celiac center at Stanford they went about reconfirming his celiac diagnosis (done by another medical center) before taking him on as a patient. When they found that he didn’t have any of the genetic markers for celiac disease, they shot him over to other departments and came up with another explanation of his sudden weight loss (probable giardia coupled with low Ig levels). He went back to eating gluten with no ill effects after that, so we’re okay with the “undiagnosis” by Stanford unless there are problems again. Hey, our household went GF before, we can do it again if we need to!