Welcome!

I decided to start this blog mainly for myself. I love the Bento Culture and I happen to be on Weight Watchers. I made the choice to start Weight Watchers to better myself. I am far from happy about my body and I finally got around to doing something about it. As for Bentos, I feel that the idea of the Bento just goes very well with my choice to be on Weight Watchers. For the most part Bentos are packed with healthy items and even when they have not so healthy items in them it's well balanced and well proportioned to everything else in the lunch. A Bento is a good way for me to portion control my meals and a good way for me to try and be creative in finding healthy recipes to pack in them. 

This blog at times may be updated on a daily basis and at other times may only be updated sparingly. It all depends on my mood. I suffer from depression and sometimes I find it hard to motivate myself to do even the simplest of things. I do try however and that's what matters.
This blog may be more for myself as a record of my progress and my ideas but any of you who come upon this place I hope that you enjoy it and find something you like.

For a first post I guess I shall share my recipe for my favorite hummus. I love hummus! Sadly I tend to like it more with pita chips rather than veggies but it's good with both.

Roasted Garlic Hummus!

• 2 (15 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 1/4 cup tahini
• 2 lemons, juice of
• 2/3 cup water
• 1 cup roasted garlic (2-3 large heads)
• 2 teaspoons salt 
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• Paprika or cayenne pepper to garnish (OPTIONAL)
• Olive oil to garnish (OPTIONAL)
  
  Very simpler to prepare. You can either buy the roasted garlic or roast it yourself in the oven. Just split open the heads and brush with a tiny bit of olive oil and roast at 350 for about an hour.
  
  1. Drain the chickpeas and place in a food processor or blender. I say either one because we have some old equipment here and our blender works much better for this than our food processor.
  
  2. Add the water, lemon juice, tahini and roasted garlic to the chickpeas and blend until smooth. In some cases you may need more water. It's really up to you depending on how you like your hummus.
  
  3. Place the hummus in a bowl and mix in the salt and pepper. Most times I don't measure since It's again up to your own tastes.
  
  4. Serve as is or garnish with olive oil and paprika or just paprika. I like to use cayenne for the spice over the paprika.
  
  
  Hopefully you all enjoy. If anyone notices this, I do have a profile on www.food.com that also has this recipe posted.