# 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.

Bento #11 and #12

These bentos have broccoli from the freezer. It is organic and comes in steam packs, making it easy to prepare and add to a bento.

Bento #9 and #10

This is D Man's bento after a long absence from me making them. My sister was visiting from the States so we were busy extra busy playing travel guide and showing her all the local restaurants and lots of skiing. It's very simple: white rice with furikake, sausages cut to look like penguins (I didn't notice it but they had rolled to there sides, OOPS) a boiled egg shaped like a flower, edamame, strawberries, cheese shaped like candy, and a green salad with sesame dressing.

My husband's is exactly the same but with flower shaped sausages, and okaka instead of furikake.

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.