Tiffin with bungees

[darkemeralds]

serenity_valley's recent bento diaries have been inspiring me to get back to taking my lunch to work.

I came up with a novel solution for transporting it.





Inside, I baked a little chicken pot pie right into the bottom section, then had some veggies in the middle and a little Elvis Cake in the top.

With two bungees, it was quite stable--so much so that it wasn't all that easy to get off! As I was waiting for the light at 9th and Weidler, a woman crossed the street in front of me with an identical tiffin. Tiffin solidarity! And when I got to work, a guy in the garage said, "Hey! Is that your lunch? That looks pretty cool."

Note: the chicken pie was only so-so, and the brussels sprouts needed soy sauce, which I forgot. Much, much better lunches are in my near future.

Comments

[lamentables]

Tiffin tins are the only thing that makes me regret that I work from home: I'd love to buy some and I'd love to experiment with interesting packed lunches.

I pack food for abrinsky whenever he's in the office, but he wants the same thing every time: fruit & yoghurt for breakfast, cake for elevenses, cheese sandwich for lunch. I have offered to mix it up a bit, but this is what he prefers.

[darkemeralds]

I love that you have elevenses. Seriously, I thought that was just a hobbit thing for the longest time.

Consistency, in the form of a very limited range of menu choices, is at the heart of a long-term lunch strategy, as far as I'm concerned. I nearly defeated myself trying to be original. It is fun, however, to fit familiar foods into a cool container, and make them look pretty with the addition of minor oddities like strips of bell pepper. I don't suppose cutting abrinsky's cheese sandwich into the shape of a piggy would go over...?

Nah.