# 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.

Bento #8

This box is for onigiri. It has a small bottom layer with edamame, mikan, and fruit juice jello. Also a small spoon (the like that comes with ice cream) to eat the jello. On top are two salmon onigiri made with salmon left over from the night before. They are wrapped in plastic that keeps the seaweed away from the rice until it is opened. D Man said that is was great but the fruit juice didn't give the jello much flavor.

Bento #5

Today's lunch had a few problems. The container I put D Man's milk into froze some of the milk and he didn't like the onigiri. He likes to add his own furikake instead of me doing it. D Man thought the rice didn't have enough flavor. I did get to try out my new punches and make faces on the onigiri. This lunch is mostly the same as it has been all week, clementine (they are in season and available everywhere in Japan right now), two quail eggs (with faces), green salad with shredded dikon, two picks of edamame, two onigiri flavored with furikake, and two small sausages. Plus in the lid are two packs of nori (seaweed). And in the white container is sesame dressing.

Bento #3 ans #4

This time I tried to be creative and make octopus dogs. Using small cocktail hot dogs I cut them following directions I found on-line. The eyes are made with edamame. The quail eggs has a face on it made from an egg mold, but it is hear to get a picture of it. Little Bit's box also contains two cherry tomatoes quartered, three onigiri cubes, a clementine, and two picks with edamame. All of this is in a 300 ml Anpanman box. Little Bit had her lunch after play group today, where we were told that next week the room will be an office! So no more playgroup.



After seeing little sis with the onigiri cubes D Man wanted some too. I made him both 3 cm and 2.5 cm squares. He has two quail eggs with faces, a salad with peppers and shredded dikon, four small octopus dogs, clementine and two picks with edamame. The blue Buzz Lightyear container has ketchup, and the small white one has dressing.

Both children ate everything.

Bento #1 and #2

This year I want to create bentos for my family. I live in Japan and have seen many beautiful bentos made by caring mothers when my son attended preschool.

This is for my daughter "Little Bit". She is two years old. It has three cherry tomatoes, quartered, three-fourths of a clementine, 4 onigiri cubes of rice mixed with furikake, and edamame on heart picks.These are all her favorite foods and she left nothing in the box.

I made this for my son, "D Man". He is in second grade and loves all Japanese foods. He has a two tier box from the 100 yen store. In the bottom is plain rice with a packet of furikake in the lid to add. The top layer has a clementine with a strawberry in the middle, edamame on the flower picks, a green salad with shredded diakon (white radish) and in the container is sesame dressing. The orange cup has gel to be frozen and holds milk.

Of course being new to taking his own lunch he forgot to bring it home today.