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-Kiwi 2
-Apple quarter
-Vegan chocolate muffin
-Onigri with nutritional yeast
-Cabbage yoghurt
-Celery salad and vinaigrette
-Carrot sticks

The sun is out, shining right through our windows. It is the best moment of the year to have a bento for lunch. The best thing is that we can now just walk a little and sit under the shade of a tree in Lacienki park. Yes, I have the chance to work nearby. I believe that every Warsaw inhabitant is proud of this famous park. They can be! It's a real joy to sit under a tree on a bench and forget for one hour the stress and the work enjoying my lunch.
Bear doesn't have the same chance, but as he is mostly on the road lately he happens to eat his bentos in much fancier places than I do: Augustow, Kielce, Wroclaw, Krakow, Zakopane,...

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-Vegetarian pesto tod in a pot
-Cabbage salad with yoghurt
-Lettuce
-Raw cauliflower, carrot sticks,
-Sandwich with vegetarian pâté and brown seedy bread (only Bf)
-Little seitan crackers thick like dried meat, but much tastier!
-Quinoa with lens (soya sauce)

I am jaleous. Yes, I believe this was the feeling I had when viewing the nice tod in pots in bentos lately.
I just wanted to have some in my bento too! But a vegetarian tasty version. What I remember from the meaty version is quite heavy to digest. I wanted a light and spicy version. Result: Bear is totally fond of them. And they were great even cold in our lunch bento.
I didn't have much time this evening and not much in the fridge either. So I completed this bento with a simple seedy brown sandwich which is maybe this seed gratin Cicerolle was speaking of :). I redid some of these little seitan crakers that I had to bread with nuts and walnut as I had finished most of my dried okara. You should definitely taste them!
With some fresh carrot sticks and cauliflower trees to complete the bento, I was rewarded with a great hug for this lunch!

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-Sandwich (spinach, vegetarian pâté, cucumber)
-Courgette cupcake (vegan, bread based)
-Banana-coco cupcake (vegan) or sweet courgette cupcakes
-Mandarin slices
-Kiwi slices
-Carrot salad
-Vegan tsatsiki
-Japanese style vinaigrette

I just can't read. I mean at least a recipe! I was catching up some recipes in Oceane's blog when I fell on this cupcake recipe with Tastsiki. The recipe seemed tempting and the idea of having it for a bento was just great. So here I go straight to the shop to get what I was missing in my fridge. I don't know how in my twisted mind I thought I needed courgette to do her cupcakes. Please don't ask. I felt so stupid back home in front of my computer, ready to try her recipe...and seeing that my memories of the ingredients were really fantaisist! And I had promised Bear some fantastic courgette cupcakes...So this is how I ended up with some courgette cupcakes with Tsatsiki. A good bento item, it was a real joy to gobble up my lunch today! And, because I really bought too much courgette I did some sweet courgette cupcakes for desert. Can you see any difference between the two?
The other bento has banana-coco flavoured cupcakes.

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-Falafel
-Lettuce
-Cabbage yoghurt salad
-Sandwich 1: vegan pâté [base mung beans], cheese, lettuce, mayonnaise
-Sandwich 2: aubergine caviar, seitan breaded with okara and miso spices, lettuce.

As usual, I'm in a hurry, trying to get everything done and still to eat properly so I went for sandwiches today. I saw on a few forums that people don't imagine sandwiches to be vegetarian.
I think this is truly amazing! Hey wake up guys, there are thousands of incredible variations of vegetarian/vegan pâtés. This decided me to show you this really simple but tasty bento. Maybe sandwiches would be a little more vegetarian among non-vegetarian eaters! ;)
(The box is my little Totoro box which got damaged during my last trip. It's last time, before ending in the museum of broken bento boxes...I hate these low cost flights!).

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-Chocolate and coffee cupcake
-Carrot salad
-Onigri breaded with nutritional yeast
-Seitan ham flavoured mushroom
-Lettuce

Four weeks on the road, living in planes, trains and hotels looking for a job. I truly missed you and my kitchen! What can I say? The moment my suitcases landed on the floor of my flat, kissed bear hello, I was in the kitchen all pans out and ready to prepare our monday bento.
During these four weeks away with very little internet connection, I had a lot of time to think about vegan "ham" making with gluten. I had several a goes but I still want to think over the flavouring but it's quite promissing. I'm not so happy about the texture though. Wait for tomorow to see what one can do with this ham!