New sunbed bento

New sunbed for the garden which I am christening with a Bento lunch.  A pretty healthy one too, in the top layer I have some gluten free pretzels,  some beef fire sticks* and the  last of the smoked cheese**.

The bottom layer I've got piquillo peppers from a jar  (which are really yum) olives stuffed with almonds, cherry tomatoes and cucumber.

I also have a bit of passover coconut and chocolate cake.  I'm no expert on Jewish dietary rules but it is helpfully dairy and gluten free.

*They taste like very old spicy cow carcass.  I'm not sold.

**Bavarian!

The cheese and peppers is a match made in heaven. I will have to think about that....

Back to the Bento

So I'm still looking after dad and I'm still stuck in the house most of the time but the weather is (hopefully) getting nicer which means the possibility of lunch in the garden plus I need to lose a few pounds! And really sandwiches can only be so exciting! So Bentos are back baby!

Today's Bento is a combination of using up things and new things that were in my @ocado delivery today.  So the last of the sliced jarlsberg went in a Warburtons gluten free sandwich thin and got toasted while I sliced up some crudités; cucumber,  red pepper, radish*, cherry tomatoes and a couple of caper berries. The little pig has a wee bit of ranch dressing for dipping in.

Afters (as my mum calls it) was some black berries with the last of my booja booja dairy free alternative to ice cream. 

*The radishes were apparently French breakfast radishes.  Do French people have radishes for breakfast? My recent holiday to the Maldives certainly opened my eyes to what's surprisingly good for breakfast (tinned tuna with chilli and lime? Yes please!) but radishes?