Now that we’re back from vacation and settling into our Fall routine, we have to take a few minutes and share with your our new favorite go-to lunch – we call it our take on the “whole bowl” (inspired by an eatery of the same name), and it’s refreshingly simple and delicious.
You can mix up your own ingredients (see our recipe page), but the basics are:
- Brown rice
- Black beans
- Avocado
- Shredded cheese
- Banana peppers
- Jalapeño slices
- Cilantro
- Salsa (stands in for “secret sauce”)
We recently ate this kind of bowl in Portland, OR at The Whole Bowl (their retail location AND at Portland’s famous food carts), and similar delectable dinners at Cafe Yumm! in Bend, OR and later in Portland, OR. We just polished off today’s homemade bowl (pictured), and it’s just as good, if not better, than what you can get while you’re out and about. So, want to shake up lunch at work or school? Pack it, heat it, and enjoy!
Oh, and here’s the ultimate testimonial: our 8-year old thought about having themed lunches for school … and one of the days was reserved as a “Whole Bowl” day. We’ll see how that goes!
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More about Amy and Scott Dawson, creators of Lunchtaker.com: One of our core focuses is on nutrition and fitness. Our children both attended a parent cooperative pre-school where the morning snack was as healthy as possible, and our family liked the opportunities for new foods that arose in pre-school. As our children go through grade school, we are focusing on continuing the trend of ensuring we feed ourselves a variety of foods, all good for our bodies... read more...
Posted Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 at 9:31 am and filed under Ideas, Lunches, Recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
