Yay for bentos! Fun lunches should be for adults just as much as kids 😍 Are you headed back to work or school? Anyone still stuck at home? I hope you’re all safe and well!! ❤️
First day back (work, lol) was yesterday. Congrats to you on going back! Good luck! I like the new intro, btw. Also I love that the churro bars are vegan. So often, with club activities, I have trouble finding new things to make, because 1 or 2 regilar students are vegetarian or vegan, or 1 is vegan, another gluten free. This one sounds great!
My university is closed so everything is online. I thought “oh it’s ok I will make lunch when it’s lunch time” ... turns out making food takes time and that is something I do not have between classes haha so these are perfect for that, I can prepare them in advance and leave them in the fridge! Thanks for sharing :D
Alyssia! Your videos are not only yummy, but your advice and personality is what keeps me coming back. Thanks always for great informative content! Stay safe! Take care 🙂
I am back to work after maternity leave and was feeling overwhelmed with getting lunches packed for myself plus taking care of an infant and toddler. These are perfect. I have been spending 10-12 dollars on take out salads from restaurants and by the end of the week I am at 70 ish dollars on lunch for 1 person! Thank you for this- JUST what I needed- great ideas and inspiration to try better next week.
Wow, I have so many things to say! First, congrats on grad school! Second those churro bites look amazing - I love the vegan recipes and suggestions! Lastly, thank you for putting captions on all of your videos - it really makes it accessible and fun to watch. Keep up the amazing work!
I neeeed those churro bars now! They look so good. I'm so happy to see your shift to less rigid eating - I was honestly watching less of your content because of the heavy focus on "healthy foods." But I always loved your creative recipes and am so happy to see this personal transformation for you - losing the guilt around eating has improved my life so much and I hope it does for you, too!
↖These all look so amazing! Thank you for your inspiration, it helps us keep going on our own journey! We've lost over 90 pounds between us so far and counting! 😍
Melanie Santos - thank you Melanie! Everyone cheering us on is so great! We’ve started a channel so to see us messing about then do click on our faces lol 💕
These look delicious, I cant wait to try the recipes! I'm not a big fish eater but I still want to try the tuna salad to see if I'll actually like it and start eating more fish
You've helped me have a better relationship with food. I don't like to cook, so it's easy to get into a rut. I stop putting any effort into planning or prep. The relationship becomes unrewarding. Those are the times I start to eat junk. Little things like a wavy cutter seem "extra", but honestly it feels great to open the container and see someone took time to make it special. Your videos keep me inspired to nourish myself & family. TYVM
I totally agree! Thank you so much. In January I am doing a daily series about healing my relationship with food, and I am so excited to take the channel in that direction! Thank you for the support!!
More work to clean the cooling rack than to do it with a knife. Shredders are easier to clean to. I stil handwash dishes. I love celery chopped in things, especially with onions, raw or cooked. Raw will make your Tuna salad yummy, but for some reason plain celery tastes like crap to me.
Girl! I did not know that you were doing the grad school trek too :) Welcome to the study club! I LOVE bento boxes for adults. Hope you won't mind if I throw your vid up on a recommended list? I hoard good informative reference videos like a squirrel hoarding nuts
Great ideas! Really needed some hefty and healthy snack ideas for starting my office work, my body burns through carbs like you wouldn't believe. Dunno how much people would like it but a high fiber snack videos would be really neat
I have always loved your BENTO lunch boxes meals, I made them for myself and now teen daughter when she was in grade school! So glad you are doing them again. Because teen daughter has been wanting those bento box lunches again!
I have a super easy dip recombination for you!! Equal parts mayo and sour cream (or mayo and greek yogurt) then shake in some Everything But The Bagel from Trader Joe's. It's awesome by itself but sometimes I switch it up and add some dill or black pepper. You got me started on EBTB so I think of you whenever I make it 😊 Awesome with veggies or fries if you're feeling sassy.
I've never had pickle juice, being in the UK, but I make tuna salad with salad cream instead of mayonnaise, which I imagine has a similar end result. Thanks for making this actually edible, rather than smothering a few pieces of cardboard in hummus.
That part about food being easier to consume by just changing the appearance, that's 100% true for me. I sometimes don't feel like cooking so I keep some meal replacement bars around for these moments, but I struggle to finish a whole bar if I just bite down on the whole bar. What I tend to do is just chop it up in tiny cube and put it in a bowl. Doing that makes it feel more like a snack and easily have me finish the whole thing when I can just pop it piece by piece into my mouth.
It is my last semester in Community College. Graduating this Winter. So YAY me I guess. How is your education going Alyssia? Hope you are getting good grades! Good Luck To All Us The Students
@@MindOverMunch That requires more self-discipline! Back in the Spring, I opted to return to campus physically. Of course, we did not know how long this was going to go on. And now I find myself in class with 1/3 of my kids and having to deal with a few more technology bumps in order to simultaneously give my class to the other 2/3 who are in their rooms and the 3rd who are with me physically, all at the same time. No more group activities, no more getting up and moving around the room, etc. It might have been easier to stay online, although the kids don't like it, and I generally don't, either. But grad courses are different and it they adapt pretty easily to online delivery
Awesome video!!! I'm actually starting a masters degree too, so these tips are really useful for those long days on campus and away from student accommodation! (I'm in Zurich, so it's imperative I do food prep because eating out is EXPENSIVE here!)
HOT DAMN! Mama Munch is doin' bentos and all is right with the world...at least for a fre minutes anyway. Do a vegetarian Latin inspired episode-- Pinto Boxes!!
I already bought your bento book and love it. In the video, these look even better as they are like adult Lunchables!! Very excited to try these out, thanks for being so innovative! These recipes are right up my ally :)
Alyssia, I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm super excited to make them!!! We are going back to in-person work next week, so this video is perfectly timed!!!! Love your content!!!
Another keto friendly lunch that goes along these lines is buffalo chicken celery. Mix shredded chicken, greek yogurt or mayo & buffalo sauce & eat it with celery sticks.Yummy.
Great video, thank you! I have to tell you this, I thought your intro said ‘hi, I’m a lesbian and I’m so glad you’re here!’ 😂 I had to re listen as I thought it was an odd thing to say… I need to turn my hearing trumpet up a bit, I think! 😆😆😆😆😆
Hi. Thanks for this. I have so many containers that I can use to create a bento box. If I don’t have to, I don’t want to purchase another container go that purpose. Would you please create a box from a regular rectangular container that anyone can use? Btw, those recipes look delicious.
Thanks for the inspo, Alyssia! I've been looking for to-go lunch ideas for work! Also, just want to mention that your filming of the food prep was incredibly satisfying. 😊
You're like really extra and I like that. EDIT: So this was the first video I've seen from your channel and when I finished it I thought it was fantastic. You speak really well and seem to have a great relationship with food and presentation. Subbed.
Miss real bentos from our time in Japan....But I got that Lunch-Bots steel case..Its perfect for Intermittent Fasting...you can have one filled with a variety of all kinds of things...so you dont feel like youre missing out on anything...and of course excellent for portion control.
Thank you so much for this video. It all looks amazing. Im really excited to try making the churro bars, but i am struggling to get the cashew butter, would almond or peanut butter work? Also how long would the recipes you made keep for in the fridge if i wanted to make them all on one day for the week ahead?Thanks
Beginner here :D Silly question... where does the sauce little cups go? In the lunch box or outside? Do they have lids? Love the video! Thank you! Cheers Sam
if you're going to chop up your hard boiled eggs you might as well cook them out of the shell. just crack them into a cooking container in the IP and chop them up. no need to peel.
How safe is tuna to eat? I heard it's high in mercury but I wonder if I should omit it all together from my Husband's and I diet or if there is a certain brand I should look out for?
