Overdo post

It has been way to long since I have posted anything. Life has been quite busy, starting with Christmas, which we had a wonderful time with family, then after taking 2 weeks off, it was getting back into the swing of things, and then we had a lot of company come over. First it was my cousin from Alberta, for 2 weekends, she had to work during the week near our place, and the second weekend, her brother and his family came down, and as usual, I laughed so much! It was so great to see them all, and I had so much fun. Then my cousin from Sudbury came down, it was a more relaxed weekend which was great, and we of course stopped in at Chapters. Then my in-laws came down for a visit, we did some shopping, and played cards and had a great time.

When I was shopping for presents, we do this Christmas gift exchange, and I was already on my way to Ikea to get my goddaughter a gift, so I stopped in at Terra 20 to get a few things I needed, and decided to see what they had in hopes to find something for the gift exchange and I did. I have been seeing these bento boxes here and there, and unsure if it's something I should try out, but decided this would be a pretty good gift, and the game we play can sometimes lead to getting your own gift which isn't a bad thing, so decided why not. The more I thought of it, the more I wanted to get one for myself, which I didn't get mine back, I ended up getting a Chapters gift card and home made caramel sauce, that my hubby's cousin made, and it's delicious!! So I made another stop in at Terra 20 to get a few.

So I didn't have enough room for my veggies to snack on so those are in a baggy, but to the left on top is 2 boiled eggs with half an avocado, under that is half a banana, raspberries and blueberries, next to that is a salad, and that small container is the dressing. Bento boxes are my new obsession. I tend to fill up pretty quickly so this is a good way to snack on different things during the day. Here's another bento box I put together

So this one to the top left is carrots, celery and a bit of humus, under that is macaroni salad that I made. It's brown rice pasta with chopped up celery, green onions, radishes and broccoli, and the dressing is Dijon mustard, a bit of relish and some mayo with a bit of paprika and pepper. The top right is a bit of Greek yogurt, chia seeds, a tsp. of maple syrup and blueberries, under that is a whole wheat wrap with tuna salad. My tuna salad has very thinly chopped up celery, red onion and radish mixed with half an avocado, Dijon mustard, and a tiny bit of mayo. Along the right side is raspberries.

Over the weekend I also made a banana bread and some guacamole, and cooked up some chicken for my hubby's lunch. I'm trying to stay away from meat again, except fish and shrimp because I have been getting some endometriosis pain here and there, so on Sunday night we had shrimp with aioli sauce, some of the macaroni salad, and a garden salad with an avocado dressing. Yesterday he had pork, and I had salmon with sweet potatoes and roasted asparagus. Tonight will be a vegetarian stir fry for me and he will have chicken with his.

I will try to blog more often to share more information and recipes. Next week I'm off on a girls trip, so stay tuned for the details on that! One hint, if you watch the Rachael Ray talk show, you should be seeing me in the audience!  So excited!!!