Mon's kitchen | What I eat in a week (work edition) |

Earlier this year my uncle gave me this bento box set and ever since, I've been a little more motivated to prep my lunch, hehe.

I always go for simple things that I can eat fast-ish during our lunch break at work. Sometimes I'd buy things like sausages or make sandwiches but, there are other days where I bring some food lefovers along with small complements. And, I usually bring some flavored milk, yakult or yogurt, it depends.

We do have a microwave oven at work but I rarely use it, I'm too lazy. So, I try to bring things that can be eaten cold or, I'll just eat them like that. 😅

Honestly, I only make lunch for 3 days cuz I work from home the rest of  the week but, I decided to share 5 days to make it look more like a normal week. Here is what my work lunch looks like:

Day 1: fish fingers and some veggies. I decided to make some siracha-mayo to dip them. It was pretty good. As for the sweet snack, I had 2 small slices of condensed milk bread.

Day 2: Sausages with ketchup and siracha, I also added some watermelon with tajin as a healthier snack. For dessert, we have more bread that I had to cut in small pieces to make it fit. Lastly we have my favorite Santa Clara flavored milk, the cotton candy one.

Day 3: Tuna mayo salad with some crackers(?), yakult and a blueberry bar thingy. For dessert I brought some strawberry milk taffy.

Day 4: Two small enchiladas potosinas and a few jalapeño cheddar chips for the savory part. My usual bar and a Valie's day butter cookie for dessert and a yakult.

Day 5: One of my favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and cheese, hehe. I know it sounds gross for some but, I love it. Along with it I also brought some pineapple, a bar and another favorite, the Alpura "mermaid" milk, which it's blueberry flavor.

I know my choices might not be the healthiest or best ones but, they are fast and easy and, I like that. Don't judge me, haha. Also, I never showed it but, I always bring a water bottle with me and have some coffee every now and then.

What do you guys usually have for lunch?

Kimagure Nekonyan Chocolate 🐈

There's nothing better than sweets that can be cute too! I don't really know how interesting this will be for you guys but, as a cat mom and a crazy cat lady, I had to share.

I recently bought these adorable Japanese chocolates, the thing that caught my eye was the presentation of course. The Nekonyan chocolate comes with 4 different designs, I chose the blue and pink version but, they were all cute. I believe the other 2 colors were yellow and green, all featuring different cat breeds.

The milk chocolate bar by Shoei delicy comes divided in 6 rectagle bites and has crunchy bits (cereal, I think). It is not super sweet but it is nice and creamy.

Each bar comes with a collectible card that has cute cat pics on both sides and a quiz question. You have to rub the small black cat to reveal the answer. There are 60 different cards.

We got a Masha! ♡

I think there is a dog version of these chocolates too.

Even tho there is nothing out of the ordinary with these chocolates, I think it's a very cute thing to buy if you love cats or know someone who's a cat lover. I'd defo buy them again.

Mon's Kitchen | My meals in a week |

It's been a while since I last share something food related. Specially something I've made. So today, I decided to share some of the things I made for lunch in a week. Thing is, sometimes when I make too much of something, I end up eating it twice or even 3 times in a week. That's why I'm only sharing 3.

Don't expect these dishes to be super elaborated, I don't spend much time in the kitchen during the week because of work. I try to go for things that are fast and easy so, yeah. Also not all of them are the healthiest option for some so... don't judge me! Hehe

The first one is one of my favorites when I don't have much time: My Mc D's menu! Fish nuggets and hashbrowns. For some reason I prefer fish nuggets over chicken ones and, I just loooove hashbrowns. There's no science here, I added some lemon juice to my nuggets and ketchup to my hashbrowns. The sauces on the side are more ketchup and a little Valentina. Which is pretty much the only spicy sauce I eat. My bestie doesn't know how I live eating like this. Hehehe. A bag of nuggets usually lasts me for like 2 or 3 days.

Since I had a little more time I made some pasta with meat and veggies. This is the easiest way for me to eat veggies! I tend to forget about them, and it's not because I don't like them. For this pasta I used ground beef, tomato sauce, chopped carrots and potato and green beans. I didn't make the sauce from scratch tho, I used Heinz's bolognese sause and added some salt with garlic to it. It was pretty good but I made enough to eat for a week! I decided to freeze part of it and eat some other day cuz, I got a little tired of it, hehe.

I bought a package of 5 frozen breaded chicken steaks (I'm not sure if they are steaks). I only used a couple and kept the others in the freezer. I decided to eat the chicken with some spinach. I actually love spinach! The chicken only had some seasoning and I had it with a tiny bitsy bit of mayo. The spinach had lemon juice and tajin, hehe. But it disappeared and doesn't show in the pic. I made enough for two days.

And then we have dessert. This was a caramel flan, since I made small portions I ended up having too many. I ate them a lot and even shared some of them. It was not bad but not sweet enough for me.

I realized I only took pics of my lunch when I drank Coca-Cola with them. I have to say that was not an everyday thing tho, some days I also had plain water or cranberry juice.

And well guys, that is that for the meals I made in a week. I can proudly say, they were good! Hehe.

Hope you enjoyed this short post, I'll see you next time~ ♡

Jujutsu Kaisen Wafer Cookies Vol.2

 It's anime snack time!

This time I bought a Jujutsu Kaisen Wafer Cookie just because it was Jujutsu Kaisen, hehe. There's nothing too special about it tho,  the packaging is cool and it comes with a sticker.

The cookie is a double chocolate wafer that smelled delish and was actually pretty good but, it wasn't out of the ordinary. It came on a plastic-ish tray thingy with some pics of the possible stickers you can get and a QR code that takes you to a Bandai online store when you scan it.

As the Kimetsu No Yaiba snacks I bought a while ago, this one says Vol. 2, this means there is a Vol. 1 and 3. I think the only thing that changes is the package and probably the kind of stickers you get. I pretty much got this one because it was the only one left but, I was happy with it because Nobara is one of my fav characters. 

The sticker came in a small transparent bag, I got Noritoshi Kamo, from the Kyoto Jujutsu High which was like... bleh. I wanted other characters. Oh well~

I don't regret buying it tho, anime snacks are always fun and there's something exciting about not knowing what you're gonna get so, yeah.

Magyc House

 

A few weeks ago (around July 16th) Magyc House opened and, from the moment I saw them online, I knew I had to go with my friends. Specially because of the Taiyaki! We all know how much I love desserts.

So yeah, las weekend we decided to go check it out and I have to say, we really liked it.

The place is divided in two parts, one is the showroom, which is basically a big store that has a bit of everything: anime and movie merch, clothes, accessories, japanese candy, etc. I didn't take any pictures there but we decided to explore the store before the cafeteria. We liked so many things! I have to go back with more money cuz they had lots of things I want. 

After checking the store and buying just a couple of things (actually my friends bought more than me) we moved on to the cafeteria, which is right next to the store to get some Taiyaki.

I loved how the place is decorated! The walls are manga inspired, all black and white with led lights sign thingies that give a pop of color to the place. I forgot to take pics of the other walls but they are defo cool photo spots if you like anime and manga.

Even the tables had manga-like designs.

Their menu includes Taiyaki, of course, some drinks, manju and other snacks. Prices wise, I think it was reasonable, at least the taiyaki cuz guys, they are huge!!

You can customize your taiyaki with different toppings, sauces and choose your ice cream flavor.

The staff were really nice and patient with us, specially considering how loud we can be, hehe. One thing I did notice was the taiyaki and the drinks took a while to arrive. 

In general, it was a fun experience and I know we will be back, whether it is to buy or to eat, or both! But, we will. Highly recommended if you're an otaku like myself or if you like desserts that can be a little extra and picture worthy. It's cool to have a place like this in my city.

I'll link their socials so you can check them out:

Instagram

Facebook

See you next time~!!

Loraine 花見 🌸

Last year when we first visited Café Loraine we heard they were having a Hanami event and even tho we really wanted to go, we couldn't because of work and well, the pandemic was a lot worse than how it is now. 

Earlier this month, some of my friends wanted to have our own Hanami to celebrate the beginning of the Spring season. We didn't really see many flowers and as some of you might know, "Hanami" means Flower viewing so, I guess it was more like a Spring picnic. It was still fun tho.

Loraine's Hanami is an indoors picnic under a fake Sakura tree. We don't have real Sakura in my country so, is the closest we can get, hehe. 

You have to make a reservation because they only allow 2 groups of 6 people max. And it's only on Thursdays. I believe they'll have it until April. I'm not sure tho.

They prepared this big tablecloth thingy with lots of pillows under the tree. Everything in pink and blue. This café is very pink, I love it.

We paid $343.00 for the whole thing that included: Maki, Pink Lemonade, Taro or pink Latte, a kiré, pink Hershey's, a plushie and socks because we couldn't stand on the tablecloth with our shoes. They also gave us a free milkshake coupon.

Our food came in cute baskets. And even tho the maki was a bit soggy for me, it was pink and blue, which made it super cute. 

The Kiré was delish! I believe it was strawberry with blueberries and some flower petals. I just loved it. My taro latte was pretty good too.

Even tho we got different drinks, they were all pretty and decorated. 

I think the bunny was the cutest

I think all in all, it was a great experience, defo worth it. I feel like they take care of the little things and I appreciate that. The staff is always super nice and the place is perfect for pictures!

Random photo dump 🌸:

We forgot to take a plushie group pic but we all got penguins. This is mine, Pen-Pen.

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Can you see Pen-Pen?

Café Loraine has other seasonal events too. Hopefully we'll be able to go more often this year.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/loraine_cafe/