Is it really Friday already? Is it already November? I really don’t know where the year went, but the coming of November reminds me that I have to start Christmas shopping. I hate being that one rushing home thinking, “DID A BOX COME FOR ME???” because I didn’t order early enough. I remember one year I was stalking Toys R’ Us because I wanted a particular desk for my daughter to draw on. Now we use the chair for brushing teeth and the desk for storing papers.
Today I have a small little bento for lunch, which worked out quite well for me. I’d wanted to link this box to J-List, but I guess that box is now out of stock. It’s one of the few metal tin boxes that I have and although it’s a tiny little thing, I love it! It’ll make a great size for when Baby Girl finally accepts my lunches… whenever that day may be.
I’m actually quite proud of the two lunches I packed today because it took me less than 20 minutes to do both. I woke up earlier than usual because Buddy woke me up with his sobbing because he peed on the floor while sleeping, so I used that time to cook some hapa rice. My lunch has one teriyaki hamburger patty (from Grandma J) cut in half, a small sprig of steamed broccoli sliced in half, a piece of simmered kabocha that I sliced up and fanned out, and a baby Roma tomato cut in half for some red.
I think I mentioned before how the baby Romas are almost gone and it seems like ever since I said that, the basket just doesn’t empty! *sigh* I think I have about six more to go. For the flowers, I cooked a bit of egg substitute on low heat, then cut out the flowers with one of my sandwich cutters. The middles are simply sliced baby carrot. I didn’t even need to use a straw, I simply cut two thin slices off a thick carrot and added the nori faces.
Mr. Pikko’s manly lunch looks basically the same as they’ve looked for the past two weeks, except with different food. I added some grated carrot to his broccoli for more color, as I didn’t think the yellow of the squash was doing a good enough job.
OC Weekly recently did an article on bento and features some of my bento. Take a look at the article here and the slideshow here!
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The snowman one in the slideshow is so festive–my favorite!
congrats on the oc weekly article! they picked some really cute ones.
and as far as the bentos you just posted here, kudos! — i love seeing what you can do in 20 minutes. the grated carrot on the broccoli is a very nice idea for some quick/simple color.
So cute! I really should start packing my own lunches again, but I get lazy in the morning.
One question: do you eat your lunches cold or do you heat them in the microwave? We don’t have a microwave in our office right now (we’re getting one…eventually) so I was just wondering.
Hi Jeni,
I eat them hot. I keep a ceramic bowl here at work and I heat it up in that. If I don’t do that though, I usually leave it out on my desk and eat it lukewarm if I feel like it can hold up in the a/c office.
so cute daisies! I love them!
OMG! I love those daisies! SOOOO cute!
Congratulation on the article ^.^ You can be proud of yourself ;)
The daisies are great! And the carrot adds a great color tip. =)
I like the first bento! I would probably smile if I open my box and see that there are smiling at me!
cute flower :)
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