Bento Box Fever!

i just printed this bento box recipe from Rachel Ray today:

http://www.rachaelray.com/recipe.php?recipe_id=977&r=977,636

I can't wait to try it.

 

OMG, my daughter would FREAK over the Hello Kitty box!!!! Do you get your stuff off ebay mostly? I get so annoyed at the prices there, when the same stuff can be had from Ichiban Kan for $1.50. I have a Flickr and Twitter buddy who is going to pick me up some stuff from the Ichiban Kan store in San Francisco next month, and I'm GIDDY about it!

This was our first week of school--my daughter just started kindergarten, and I didn't think to take a picture the first day, but I started a flickr set that I'm going to put the daily lunches on, to help me remember when I made what, and not repeat too much. One thing I've already learned is not to pack dinner leftovers the very next day for her.

The first day, I used a plastic sandwich box as a mini-bento, for turkey/spinach/cream cheese pinwheels (rolled up in tortilla, then sliced) and raw baby carrots. Then that went in an insulated lunch sack with her thermos of yogurt/berry smoothie and a small container of almonds and mini cookies.

Day two, she took (my very NOT "cute") onigiri. The ones on top have sesame chicken inside, and the two in the bottom compartment have homemade Old South lime pickles inside. The pickles were kind of my Arkie substitution for umebushi, and the kiddo loved 'em!



I pulled out the red container for snack-time, with yogurt and berries. The little tiny container in the upper right of the box has ranch dip for the carrots. Beneath the mini muffin-cup with the almonds are some mini Teddy-Grahams.

This is packed in a "Laptop Lunchbox," which I highly recommend.

 

Also: Is it wrong that since starting bentos, I now want some quail, just for the tiny, adorable eggs?

 

fun! I looked into these (recipes 'n stuff) last year. But my kids are homeschooled now. When I used to work at a Montessori school I packed my lunches like that (in a Tupperware lunch container w/ divided sections). The kids there always enjoyed my fun packed lunches. I'd do cookie cutter shapes for things, and pack them all pretty. I think I ate healthier doing that too.

ninjapoodles... quail eggs would be so cute!

 

There is nothing like a bento box from Japan, we use to get them all the time when we lived there. We loved them.

 

Quote:Or get some bantams. I hate to admit it but that's part of the reason I got chickens, so I could have the small eggs. In want to get some of those quail sized egg molds.