A few months ago, my friend Skeet made a post about Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches. Now, I don’t use bacon, but I was making a Grilled Cheese Sandwich for lunch yesterday, and thought of her post here. So I wanted to ask all of you…
How do YOU make a grilled cheese sandwich?
I use two slices of regular white bread, miracle whip, american cheese, and of course, margarine or butter for the outside. Sometimes, I’ll add a few hamburger dill pickles. And I like it just done on the outsides, not burnt.

What’s the perfect sandwich in your world?

I know I haven’t really had much to put over here lately, but I haven’t been cooking either! I’ve bought lunch at work every day this week, and I’ve either gotten dinner out (mmm… Subway…) or mooched food off of family pretty much every night. I haven’t gone to renew my license plates yet, so I don’t know how much/if I have money for grocery shopping. There were some things that I really wanted out of this week’s grocery ad, so hopefully I have at least a little bit of money to go to the store with.

Don’t worry though, I’ve still been looking for ideas, and things to make. Definitely speaks to being a fat kid that most of the recipes that jump out at me are desserts! Don’t forget, I’m accepting recipes from you guys in the Recipe Challenge.

Deb asked me a question the other day that reminded me that I wanted to address the size of Bento boxes. I know when I first started looking into the whole bento thing, I “knew” that the boxes were small, but I had a hard time really scaling them in my head. In fact, when I got my first box, I was rather surprised by just how small it actually WAS! I know Loretta had the same experience there.

So to give you a bit of an idea, I took a picture of one of my larger bento boxes with a ruler, and a deck of cards for scale:

I don’t know if you can tell from the picture or not, but that is a little over 6 inches long. It’s a little over 3 inches wide, and the whole box (both layers together) stands a bit over 3 inches tall. This really is not a very large container. I also took a picture of the deck of cards INSIDE the bento box to help you picture how big it is.

My froggy bento box is even smaller than these. I took pictures of that one as well, but they don’t seem to have made it onto my Flickr account, so I’ll have to share that one later. It’s about the size of an index card though, and a similar 3-inch-ish height.