Today I went to poundland, full of keen and light of wallet, and I was not disappointed. While I don't have *exactly* what I was hoping for (mini refillable sauce containers) they basically don't exist over here that I can tell (and the empty cosmetic containers you can get are explicitly not safe for food use) BUT! All was not lost. I've had the tiny pots of brightly-coloured joy before (squares, circles and even cutesy flower-shapes, 8 in all, in a little net for a pound) and the latest versions of these are even more brightly-coloured and hideous than I remembered. I love 'em!
Anyway, I also found something even more fabulous. It's a packable salad bowl with a nice tight lid and a removable sauce pot in the lid. Still only a quid. Thing is, I don't see salad in it, I see noodles and assorted yummy things in the bowl section, say about half-full, with wetter things in the sauce pot, like home-made pickle or stir-fried onions, whatever goes... chuck in a pouch of miso paste, or possibly a wrapped oxo cube or packet of dashi powder. At lunch time, decant soup base of choice over noodles, fill with hot water from the kettle and top with (or use as a side) the sauce pot contents. Better than pot noodle! :)
So then of course I had to go to Matthew's Foods on my way home. That's my very very local Oriental supermarket. One pack each of Taro mochi and Red Bean mochi go in the basket automatically (which is why I don't go there often!) Also got baby pak choi, a big bunch of spring onion for cheap, nori and more furikake, along with sembe crackers (the ones with the sugar confetti-effect all over them... mmm... and seperately wrapped in pairs, perfect for gamer snacks!)
Dinner tonight is to be an experiment, and if it works I suspect Tuesday's Bento will be all kinds of awesome. It's not one that'll work for Sunday, since I don't have access to a kettle on campus, only at work.
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