Scraping the fridge on day 1

I work afternoons during the week, and 2 days I go straight from work to games club. I'm a roleplayer, but this involves silly card games, nerdy board games and so on as well. I could just stop at McDonalds on the way to my bus up to campus, but frankly doing that twice a week isn't going to help my bank balance or my waistline. I'm also trying to lose weight for a number of reasons, some of them health related. Add a bonus few years in Japan as a kid and Bingo! The obvious answer: Bento. Specifically, doubled-up Bento that serves as lunch, dinner and gaming snacks all in one. There's a few habits which are going to be hard to break, like the requirement for gaming to involve highly sugarry drinks and grazing on sweets, but that'll come.

Day one then.

I had nothing pre-prepped, but having done a few random one-off bentos over the summer had a few ideas. I also had not a lot in the fridge or freezer, so I'm quite chuffed I came up with something so appetising I had to distract myself for a few hours at work before I let myself dig in.

The blue box is a systema sandwich box, 450ml and contains rice with furikake and home-made dashi/garlic pickled radish, fresh radishes, mixed veg in cream cheese (from frozen mixed veg) and soy spinach (frozen spinach heated through in frying pan, in soy sauce). The 2 little jelly mould pots hold between them a small tin of mandarins. The clear box is a lock&lock 470ml box (which really doesn't look like it could possibly be bigger than the blue box, but there you go) containing most of a 3-egg (low sugar, with a little dashi powder) tamagoyaki cut into chunky strips, 4 slices of salted cucumber (slice, set in brine in the fridge, good for a few days) and pistacios I found in the back of the cupboard, unopened with a due date this month.

Also featured but not pictured was a packet of instant miso soup, the kind I get has the dry bits seperate to a little pouch of paste, and in my opinion is much richer and tastier than powder mix, even when using a larger mug of hot water.

We did get given free fudge at work today (we're basically nextdoor to a big chain fudge shop) which nobody else seemed to want, so I put a few pieces in one of the jelly pots once I'd eaten the fruit and cleaned it out, and had that as sweet stuff for gamers, meaning I didn't eat the Emergency Mars Bar I'd sneakily packed for that purpose.

I'm gonna rate these as well, out of 5 for a number of features:
Looks: 4. I found myself going back to look at the photo several times today...
Variety: 5. Colourful, healthy, balanced, close enough to 5-a-day too.
Durability: 3. The nuts went everywhere because the lock&lock wasn't densely packed.
Prep Time: 2. This took almost an hour, everything was made from scratch.

Next Bento: Sunday (all day gaming club, still need a double bento)
Improvement Goal: Spend less than 30 minutes on prep.
Homework: Make bento stash for the week
Wishlist: fillable sauce holders of some kind.