Reuse!
This week, my wife had some pasta and a bottle of pasta sauce sitting on the counter and I offer to put together a big pasta dish we can munch on for the week. I thought to myself, this isn't a healthy balanced dish I'm about to put together. So, I opened up the fridge and freezer to spy what I could do.
Ah! some vacuum sealed chicken I had frozen. What else do we have? Oh, half a crudite platter i've been chomping on (I had a hankering for some raw vegetables) perfect! What's this? ooh, a chunk of parmesian. Good to go!
So I turned a boring boiled pasta + some premade sauce into a healthy Chicken Pasta Primavera! With food costs going up, it's been gnawing at me that my bentos have been a little bit extravagent lately and I *should* start using my pantry as bento inspirations rather than just dreaming up themes.
Anyhow, just wanted to tide you over until next week.
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