Noodles #23 x2

Green Curry #22 x2

#20 x2 #21

My husband and I shared this bento of maki sushi. This was my first time making these. The mama-san at school gave something similar to my husband at Christmas. I recreated it base on a photo I had taken. They have egg, a lettuce leaf, tuna with mayo, asparagus, and crab meat.


D Man got a maki roll, strawberries, and a salad. He ate everything but the lettuce.


I was babysitting for a friend today. Her little girl goes to Japanese preschool and Thursday was a national holiday with no school. We went to story time and had these bentos after. L (the girl) saw me making Little Bits sandwich shaped like girls and asked for one too. She was crestfallen when I told her I had already made her sandwich until I showed her the butterfly. The sandwiches are plain ham. Also included are strawberries, star and moon apples colored with food dye, little pick to help eat the apples, small cheeses, and Little Bit has quartered cherry tomatoes. L was very excited about her bento saying her mom never makes her cute bento, because she is to slow an eater.

# 19 Chiken x3

We had chicken for supper last night. I used the leftovers to make three bentos today. I am only counting it as one bento because they all have the same things in them.

Mr. B's lunch in a 850 ml Lunch Amuse box (I found it yesterday for 500 yen on clearance.)
- rice with okaka to add
- a green salad with eggs
- 2 strawberries
- chicken thigh
- off picture dressing and a mikan
This lunch was all packed the night before and refrigerated over night. Mr. B can microwave it before lunch by taking out the bowl of salad and strawberries.

D Man's lunch packed into a 660 ml Linda Linda box (I found it yesterday for 500 yen)
- cut up chicken
- an egg
- strawberries
- green beans
- mikan
- hiding under the bear cap are marshmallows.
- rice with furikake in the lid


Little Bit's lunch is packed into her favorite box. A 300 ml Anpanman box.
- green beans
- heart shaped egg
- rice ball with a nori punched out face
- strawberries
- cut up chicken

She ate everything but the beans. With them she ate 2 and the rest she only ate the inside beans. Normally this is enough for her, but after she finished she was still hungry and ate a couple handfuls of goldfish crackers. I guess gymnastics class made her very hungry today.

# 17 and # 18

I usually make half the bento the night before leaving only the rice for the morning. My husband likes to leave before 6 AM and I don't get up that early. I took this picture the night before and all he had to due was add the rice in the morning. That's why the rice container has it's lid on, it's empty.

Clockwise:
- Rice
- salad (dressing off picture)
- matchstick carrots, sour cream/blue cheese dip in the pink container, pickles onions, and half a mikan
- 2 sausages, a boiled egg, and okaka for his rice
For D Ma:
- 2 salmon onigiri
- matchstick carrots
- dip in the yellow container
- half a mikan
- boiled egg.

#15 and #16

These bentos were for today. I haven't been making them for a while, because my friends and I have started a "preschool" for our 2 year olds and I have been the main one arranging everything.

I tried something new that I saw on lunchinabox.net. Cooking a sausage with a quail egg in the middle to look like a sun. I had trouble figuring out how to get the egg cooked completely and and ended up turning the it over. The yolk was coved in the white so mine don't look like suns. Also included is a salad, half a mikan, takun (pickled white radish), and sesame dressing. For the white rice my son has a package of furikake.


Last week at Homeac this bento set went on sale. It is made by Thermo and was1980 yen instead of regular 3480. I had been eyeing it for a while.
- green salad (dressing not pictured)
- potato and broccoli soup
- white rice
- 2 sausage/egg suns, half a mikan, pickled onions, and a container with ketchup.

Colorful #14

I am so happy at how colorful this one is. I made it for my 2 year old. It has three cheeses, octodogs, yellow peppers, strawberries and edamame.

Happy Valentines Day #13

This was for my husband on Valentines Day. It has taken me so long to post it because of computer problems.