Bento lunch possibility

[winter]

Between murasaki99's recent laptop-lunch blogging and the recent kerfuffle on bentolunch reported on Fandom_Wank, I'm eyeing packing bento to work as a distinct possibility.

Pros: There are usually leftovers in the fridge at home. I can pack as many vegetables as I like (something bought-lunches are usually too short on for my taste). Cheaper than lunching out. I have a fridge and microwave at work, so I could pack any type of food.

Cons: Preparation time (though I get up an hour and a half before going out to work, anyway). Planning ahead with shopping.

I think I might have to have a look-see in the food-boxes isle at Carrefour tomorrow :) If I manage to drag myself out at all, that is. Fetching newspapers and some water from the kiosk downstairs left me winded this morning, so I'm afraid the infection's not as beaten as I'd like it to be.

Recipe links for safekeeping: mini-quiches, omuraisu, mini-fritattas and fried onigiri

Wraps.

And just in case - blog/site/lj recommendations, anyone? I think I saw several mentions on the f-list :) Especially if it's affordable bento-sets for sale in Europe, preferably Poland...

Comments

Yay for bento!

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

There was a kerfuffle about bento? It's just food, how could...? Guess I'll have to check it out. :D If they have a community just for bento, I think I'll join.

Any container works for bento - in Japan, bento could be packed in anything from wood boxes, split bamboo, and fine laquerware in the old days, and in modern times, it can be in plastic 'laquerware' specialty bento boxes, and even good old styrene. So don't feel constrained, the Japanese sure didn't. If it looked good and held the food nicely, they would use it.

My current bento are all plastic of various sorts, one 'offical' plastic bento bought in Seattle at Uwajimaya, a wonderful huge Japanese grocery store, one Laptop Lunch box set bought online in the US, and a cheap set of nesting plastic for lunches bought on Amazon.com that is basically the plain modern bento set for westerners. Made in China, of course. :p
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and Fresh is what I bought, only $7 US and your Carrefour may supply something very similar/same.

For salad dressing and sauces, while you're in Carrefour, check the camping section if the plasticware section doesn't have anything useful. Camping gear will supply small squeeze bottles and little contains just right for sauces.

I hope you feel better soon, too.

Re: Yay for bento!

[winter]

The community sounds perfectly friendly except for the kerfuffle - as far as I could tell, caused by someone objecting to a woman who both participated in the comm and promoted a friend's bento-box-importing business in order to practice her online-marketing skills (does online marketing advice for a living).

Even if I don't find a set, assembling one out of all the kinds of boxes on offer shouldn't be hard :) The very same kerfuffle-cause suggested getting novelty-candy containers for dressings, which I think is worth a try :)

Re: Yay for bento!

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Silly me, I followed some of the links to bento shops from the community and spent money for a few items. -__- :D Oh well, I haven't yet gone so far as to get a bento box in every color. Yet.

But the candy containers is a cool idea, no matter who it comes from! Especially for small non-drippy items.

Re: Yay for bento!

[winter]

Some are water-tight, so might work for drippy items too :) But I think I'll have to sort out my computer first. Don't click on the link in the comment below, was what broke it :/

Re: Yay for bento!

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

I see your comment on the link -- oh dear! That's the preferred method for evil html nowadays - a link to a poisoned page, and the page owner may not even know their website has been contaminated. I don't know how those of us to maintain sites can make them 100% safe short of turning them off. Hope you get your machine cleaned up quickly.

Re: Yay for bento!

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

Er. Wordpress blog is using version 2.2 (the most recent, 2.2.1, came out only three days ago and the blog will be updated as soon as Fantastico gets that version), source code is squeaky clean (I know, I've gotten intimately acquainted with the template), the only javascript I use on my blog isn't used in post pages, and the only extern element in the page in question is only a Flickr image. I've run the ClamAV antivirus on the whole site three times now without finding anything. I frankly don't know what can have caused the error message, but it's not out of lack of tech savvy -_-;;

Re: Yay for bento!

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

...And after running updated versions of Norton and AdAware, I can say that my computer is quite clean, too. The only problems I had were the remains of a few adware programs that I detected and uninstalled years ago, but no virii at all.

Try not to stress

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

It may be an unfortunate hiccup on the part of bwinter's machine/operating system, but it also could be that someone has hacked the server you use and put naughty html on that side of the fence. This is the preferred technique of cyber-criminals nowadays. Not much you can do about that either, except check in with the owners of the server hosting your website to get them to run a scan. I live in fear of this myself, since I host on a server that is not my own.

If no one else has a problem, it may just be a case of something else crashing on bwinter's PC just as she clicked on your website.

I use a local group's server to host my modest website and so far, so good. They seem to keep their machines current on security.

If you are using your own machine as a server and you keep it all up to date security-wise, then you're probably ok. Moreso if you're running a Mac server. :D

Re: Try not to stress

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

No, the source code is alright, and I ran ClamAV over all my webspace without finding anything. I use the same webhost as Beth, and if there was anything wrong on that side we'd already have gotten some kind of update from them.

I'm inclined to think that it was a different site and some delay from the antivirus, because if it was a Pagerank exploit we'd already have heard about that *everywhere*.