We're so lucky... to have another Vincent and the Doctor lunch!

Another lunch inspired by one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who. (Today is the 3rd Anniversary of its original airdate!)

The quote:

The scene:

The lunch -- a personal picnic of sorts with some macaroni salad and potato salad topped with a boneless pork riblet and cheese with cookies and yogurt in the side containers:

(Sorry for the "meh" quality of the picture. Lousy lighting and only my phone on me when I made it.)

GOB's Chicken Dance in @EasyLunchboxes

Look! Lunch!

Look! Video!

(Also check out the non-remixed scene here.)

black+blum's Lunch Pot -- a 3rd Shift dieters best friend? (Thanks @blackblum)

I've been trying to figure out the best way to work out my allotted calories on the nights that I have to work. Working 11pm-7am and then sleeping as much as possible during the day makes eating ... well ... interesting. I finally decided that maybe it's best if I just plan on eating two meals while at work but the idea of having to lug two sets of dishes on the walk to the bus stop & then the bus ride itself is far from appealing.

And then I remembered that I had one of these in my cupboard thanks to the wonderful folks at black+blum (and yes, it's an affiliate link):


And now I'll need to buy more because ... WOW!

It's a Lunch Pot and has two separate containers joined together with a carrying strap and attached spork. Tonight it makes its maiden voyage to work:

 In the bottom container I have some Special K Fruit & Yogurt cereal. We already have milk in the fridge at work and I'll toss a banana in my bag. Even if the only milk we have is whole that's still only 335 calories. In the top I have Healthy Choice Portabello Spinach Parmesan on top of some broccoli raab. A whopping total of 303 calories.

I definitely need to get my hands on more of these pots...

Scotty Meets Future Spock

My favorite part of 2009's amazing Star Trek? Simon Pegg as Scotty. (I swear the man could read the phone book and I would buy it in HD and watch it on my iPad.)  Unfortunately one of my favorite parts of my favorite part doesn't seem to be anywhere online in a video clip .... but I do have a sound clip .... and a lunch!


Are You From the Future?
The gang of Edible Geekery couldn't pass up doing a hop to celebrate Trek with the release of the new film so after you take a look at my lunch make sure you click on the button to beam over to the next blog (and so on). We're boldly going where no hop has gone before!

To honor poor always-hungry Scotty I've got a meal and a half (at least) packed in my Laptop Lunch box! In the top left I have a roast beef, provolone and tomato sandwich with Scotty and Future Spock picks I made. Under that is some mac & cheese with tomato slices and colby jack "Well, that's brilliant." The side containers have key lime yogurt, Hershey Kisses and yogurt covered raisins.

Now continue on your journey and see what's going on at Lunches Fit For A Kid!

A little lunch tribute to @TheKurtFuller and @Psych_USA

You know I love Psych. This season I've been especially enthralled with the increase in screen time of Kurt Fuller's Woody the Coroner! He always cracks me up and last week's episode was no exception -- especially when he was all tied up in the Psych office upon his own request. When asked how he was doing he said he was "happier than a swine in poo" (and then shortly thereafter had cheese puffs thrown at his head).
Of course, I immediately thought "LUNCH!"

Packed in my amazing pineapple box from All Things For Sale, I have some mac & cheese covered in barbecue sauce with a monterey jack swine ... and cheese puffs. Not exactly poo but even I'm not that crazy.

Lazy Girl's Lasagna...ish

It's not really lasagna in the traditional sense, of course .... but it tastes just like it when all is said and done .... and it's a lot easier to throw together!

Packed in my monbento box, the top level has mini ravioli layered with cottage cheese and provolone butterflies (to match the butterflies on the lid). The bottom layer has red velvet yogurt and Special K Strawberry Fruit Crisps, and is going to stay in the freezer until I have to leave for work tonight. I have a 45 minute commute between walking to the bus stop and sitting on the bus so by the time I get to eat it should be perfect!

For those who bother paying any attention to I Wish I Had An Adipose you may think this is way too calorie heavy for a girl who's supposed to be trying to get healthier, BUT it clocks in at 730 calories total and is pretty much two meals (well, a meal and a half). One of the joys of working third shift is a screwy eating schedule so one level will probably be eaten around 12:30amish and the other about 4 hours later.

May The Fourth (Doctor, of course) Be With You!

Today the Bento Bloggers & Friends are having a Star Wars themed blog hop to celebrate May The Fourth (make sure you come back any time after noon to check that out!). Of course, being the mega Whovian geek that I am, every time I hear the words "May The Fourth" my mind immediately goes to this post from the official Doctor Who tumblr:

I had to. I didn't want to tarnish the Star Warsiness of the hop, though, so my Doctor gets a post all of his own. He deserves it.  He is, after all, the definite article, you might say.

And now, the lunch.

Chicken parm and mixed veggies with provolone Doctor, words and 11 stars (for the 11 Doctors)

A local favorite!

My body is still trying to recover from the 19 1/2 hour work day so I didn't bother taking a picture of John's lunch for school today .... and tomorrow is pizza day in the cafeteria and he likes going through the line with his friends .... but I DID break out my amazing new box from AllThingsForSale and fill it up with leftovers from us ordering in tonight in order to take it to work. I was thinking, originally, that I would just get myself a large salad. I weighed in for the first time in a long time yesterday and even started a new blog to focus on getting myself healthy. A ginormous salad would have been  the smart thing to do (especially since I haven't made it to the grocery store to buy salad stuff myself yet this week). But then I saw Chicken Riggies on the menu. Ooooooh how I love me some Chicken Riggies! And it did come with a side salad so it's not all bad ;)

Shhhhhhh.... again.....

Weeping Angels don't really freak me out.

Daleks stopped giving me the severe heebie-jeebies before I hit puberty.

The Silence?

I wish I could forget all about them.

Oh.

Wait.

What?
 

Potato salad, rolled ham slices, cheese Silence & carrot tally marks

Click To Go See More Whovian Awesomeness!

Sunflowers for Amy

It's not so much that I don't have anything to say about today's lunch but that the feels are so overwhelming that I just can't. Those who know will know.

Eggplant parmesan on top of pasta with provolone sunflowers
and mixed vegetables in cheese sauce with provolone letters

Van Gogh: They're not my favorite flower.
Amy: You don't like sunflowers?
Van Gogh: No, it's not that I don't like them. I find them complex. Always somewhere between living and dying. Half-human as they turn to the sun. A little disgusting. But you know, they are a challenge.
The Doctor: And one I'm pretty sure you'll rise to.

For all of the episode awesomeness, Netflix or Amazon Instant. For the trailer, watch this:

Lunch box awesomeness from All Things for Sale.

Castle's Heat Wave

I finally finally started watching ABC's Castle. I knew from the first couple of episodes that I needed to do a lunch (or several) ... and now that I'm finally caught up to the current season I'm finally doing it! I'm going back to the beginning since that's when I fell in love with the show and have packed myself a lunch for work based on Richard Castle and his first Nikki Heat novel, Heat Wave.

Packed in an Easy Lunchboxes Brights, I have a Healthy Choice Portabello Spinach Parmesan topped with provolone (and a pair of handcuffs from my best friend since Castle seems to find himself in handcuffs a lot). Out of the provolone I cut the name Castle using my mini letter cutters and then drew the outline from the book cover and Castle's personalized bullet-proof vest using a combination of AmeriColor gels and markers. In the top left I have a Three Musketeers bar cut in half (it's going to be a long night -- I need my chocolate!) and in the right I have a Mini Dipper filled with greek yogurt.

Linked to:

Edible Geekery goes to Empire Records!

In honor of one our favorite (and most randomly quoted) movies ... and my mad crush that still exists on Ethan Embry:

... not on Rex Manning Day!!!

Check out more at BentoForKidlet by clicking on the record!

Happy Fish Fingers & Custard Day!

The Edible Geekery crew couldn't let the day go by without Doctor Who inspired lunches, now could we? The day, of course, in celebration of the first airing of "The Eleventh Hour" ... the lunch is a combination of that and the most recent episode, "The Bells of Saint John." Pretty timey-wimey of me, huh?

No actual custard was used in the making of this lunch. It was thrown together last minute and I wasn't about to go out in search of custard so as a stand-in I've got a side of greek yogurt (apple cinnamon flavored at that ... EEP!). From what I've read Matt wasn't actually eating fish fingers when the scene was filmed and I do have those so I'm calling it even. Along with the fish and yogurt I have a bed of alfredo noodles, and used provolone to make the wi-fi connection and TARDIS.

And because no Doctor Who lunch is complete without YouTubeage:

Then:

And now:

Welcome Back Game of Thrones!

Game of Thrones returns tonight and of course some of the Edible Geekery crew decided we needed to celebrate with a mini hop! After you're done here, click on the button at the bottom to head on over to see what's going on at BentoForKidlet!

I had a million and a half ideas of what I wanted to do. I've watched some previews and have looked at tons of pictures for Season 3 and when I saw that two of my favorite young British actors are joining the show representing House Reed I knew I had to continue the trend from my past GoT lunches and do a lunch for their family:

I've seen several different versions of the House Reed crest but it always has a gatorish lizardish type black creature on a green background so I used a cookie cutter and some coloring and my mini letter cutters to turn some provolone into a crest. It's sitting on top of some ravioli with some Mini-Oreos and cocktail sausages in the small compartments.

And I couldn't help the little shout-out to Eddard Stark. After all, House Reed has been devoted to House Stark for thousands of years ....

In case you haven't seen them, here are the original four:

Now, don't forget to go check out the rest of the hop!

We love Big Fish Games!

I'm a bit of a game junkie. Puzzle games, card games, hidden picture games, games that let me blow the bejeepers out of zombies ... I spend FAR too much time on Facebook playing them. Imagine my delight, then, when I found out that one of my favorite game companies had started to release Android-compatible games! Crazy addicting games on my phone?!? Score! Big Fish Games is now on Android!

I've played their games on the computer a lot and have done test runs of some on my iPad (you can download a sample of pretty much every game on every platform to see it you like it first) ... and now the addiction can go wherever I go since I've always got my phone! There are even games that are suitable for John which makes him a big Big Fish Games fan, too.

But back to my phone. I decided that I wanted one of the hidden picture puzzle games since those have been my favorite type of puzzle since I was knee high to a grasshopper. SOOOO many to choose from but I finally decided on Adventure Chronicles: The Search for Lost Treasure. It's like a cross between hidden pictures with National Treasure and a little bit of Carmen San Diego tossed in for good measure.

A screen shot from the first puzzle.

I had assumed that I would be flying through each picture since, well, I'm pretty good at this sort of thing. Oooooh no. Not only are there a lot of things to find (including the Geo Cache that you pretty much just have to stumble upon), but puzzles using the things you've found that need to be solved before you can move on! At first I was a little frustrated that the pictures were so small ... you know, it being a phone and all ... but then I realized that I could do the whole pinch drag and zoom and it got so much easier! This is going to be keeping me busy for quite a while...

I had thought of making myself my own hidden picture lunch but then John saw the little fish guy from the Big Fish Games logo and asked for that. I couldn't say no!

In his EasyLunchbox he has some leftover pizza with the Big Fish Games fish drawn onto colby jack cheese. He also has some Sour Cream & Onion goldfish, a clementine, and Swedish Fish.

And now I go back to Ulysses S Grant's house to try and figure out how to put his clock back together ....





Please note: While I did purchase the game I am now addicted to with my own funds, I am receiving game credits as a thank you for oohing and aahing reviewing. I would have oohed and aahed anyway, but I felt you should know. Now. Back to that clock ....

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day!!! Being a very important Geeky Holiday we're doing another Edible Geekery Blog Hop! After you take a look at what I've got, click the button at the bottom to hop on over to see what's next and keep going until you get back here.

Of course, I'm celebrating with a Doctor Who lunch. You should know by now that if there's something to be celebrated there's a very chance that I'll do so with Doctor Who. Or Supernatural. I was debating the Supernatural when I got a notification on my cell phone. My notification sound at the moment is The Doctor and Sky saying "RoseTylerMarthaJonesDonnaNobleTARDIS." That got me thinking of  the episode it came from, "Midnight." One of the other tests of Sky's duplication skills came from the square root of Pi ... and roast beef ... and bananas ... and ...

Here's the lunch:

Roast beef with mashed potatoes, gravy and mixed past veggies with provolone cheese, banana chips, and Cheese Doodle-Os (just because) packed in an Easy Lunchbox with my favorite TARDIS napkin.

And here's the YouTube:

And here's the button that will take you over to Robot Squirrel and the Monkeys:

And here's a linky if you've made a Pi Day treat you would like to show off as well:

I believe in ... Psych!

I love the show Psych on USA. It's smart, geeky, witty ... and was the first non-lunch thing I remember really bonding with my beloved bestie over. I've done lunches for Psych before and now this one to celebrate tonight's season premiere! (Also go checkout the awesomeness over at said bestie's amazing BentOnBetterLunches!)

Based primarily on the season 6 episode "Dead Man's Curveball" and this speech (which, of course, is a takeoff on Bull Durham). Click on the link for the full clip ... or just watch the Psych-Out clip and ... wait for it ...

There's also a muffin just because of this clip and the fact that it reminds me of my favorite Psych-ic connection:

Happy Birthday, Kyle MacLachlan!

I knew I wanted to do a fun lunch for myself to take to work tonight but I wasn't sure what ... until I saw that it's Kyle MacLachlan's birthday! What better way to celebrate than with a Twin Peaks-inspired lunch? (Cooper is, of course, my favorite of MacLachlan's roles.)

Clockwise from top left: cherry pie, mixed vegetables with provolone words, Chobani Black Cherry yogurt, SmartOnes Creamy Rigatoni with Broccoli & Chicken

Used For This Lunch:

Zombieland Rule #2

I'm going to eat it, but it was made to give my bestie a much-needed chuckle ....

Stuffed Cabbage with tomato sauce on mashed potatoes, provolone, clementine, Little Debbie Oatmeal thing (some people love Twinkies ... I love oatmeal things)

Vote Saxon!

It's Politicians week over at Bento Blog Network and while I've already linked up my Abraham Lincon Vampire Hunter lunch I immediately started to think of some of my favorite fictional politicians ... which, of course, had to include Harold Saxon.

Packed in my new monbento box, I have ravioli in the top layer & mixed vegetables in the bottom.
My TARDIS napkin fits in the lid.

And because no Doctor Who lunch is complete without at least one clip: