#006: It's a zoo!

Calories: 398

Contents: Glutinous rice w/ soy sauce in the giraffe sauce vial, steamed broccoli, boiled egg with Cholula in the chicken sauce vial, watermelon stars.

Man adding in a good sized-portion of rice really jacks up the calories! Looks delicious though.

Today's box actually was up in the air for quite some time. I experimented with making the little octopus hotdogs but I didn't like the way they looked in the box (and they were tasty so I kind of just wanted to eat them!) and I also roasted more brussels sprouts. I overcooked the sprouts, though, so I just discarded them and opted for the broccoli instead for my veggie.

The animal picks and vials are a part of this set on Amazon which just arrived. I adore the vials and picks, they're so cute! The silicone cups are so small though I can barely imagine what I could put in them. Seeds, maybe. At their base they're smaller than a quarter so it's hard to imagine putting more than half a bite of any given food in them. But the set was cheap and the picks and vials are awesome, so I'm happy with the purchase.

#002: That did not turn out as expected.

Calories: 241

Contents: Egg-White Tamagoyaki, Long-Grain White Rice & Soy Sauce, Watermelon and Honeydew Stars

It is very difficult to find glutionous rice in my small town so I made long grain white rice instead. I don't have sauce containers so I added soy sauce when I prepared it, the night before I was going to eat it. It did not turn out well. I'm not sure if it's because of the rice quality or the fact the rice sat in the fridge all night but it ended up being very very dry. I didn't even finish eating it. I will not do that again.

In an experiment to lower calories I made tamagoyaki (still using vinegar instead of mirin) with 100% Egg Whites instead of full eggs. The flavor and texture remained wonderful (though a little airy/bubbly on the texture side of things) but the volume was significantly lower than with full eggs, despite using the recommended 3 T whites = 1 Egg amount.