Veggie Sushi Bentos

Sorry for the posting void, school has been eating me alive too much to:
a) try too many new/exciting things with lunches
b) remember to take pictures of the boxes before someone consumes them!

(Amazing Little Sister has her own bento box now too! It is an URARA Dragonfly box, very cool looking. I have an URARA Rabbit box to match! She is a much better cook than I am so I MAY see if I can get pictures of her bentos to share.)

THESE bentos are in boxes I found at the Dollar Tree! I found them to be the PERFECT size for sushi rolls. Last week I picked up a sushi mat and some more tiny utensils at Lampson and Goodnow and have been finding sushi is pretty easy to make!

These boxes are for me and my friend Hanna to have at school tomorrow.

This is acutally my SECOND time making the cucumber avacado rolls. The came out just as squished looking last time too. I think it is the way I sliced the cucumber (shavings using a peeler) that leaves it without a round shape. The sweet potato rolls came out in the right shape though! I did have to squish them slightly to make them fit better in the box.

I do not know what KIND of sweet potato I used, but I know it is not the usual kind. It is more yellow than orange, but it tastes good anyway! I finished the boxes off with carrot sticks because they were lacking in warm colors.

I also made one of my "usual" boxes tonight for my mother:

She REALLY likes the apple slices. The cheese is in heart shapes. I used the leftover avacado from the rolls in her salad per her request and also added some crasins. She has been taking a bento to work nearly every day! Apparently they are a hit with people at both of her workplaces and everyone wants to know more about them.

I will try to update at least once a week from now on!
-BCat

Manly Bento = Too Manly for BCat?

Alright, next time I should be warned that bigger boxes means more food and that more food means more thinking. Teenage Mutant Little Brother is going to have to deal with an over sized classic grape bento for his Monday lunch, just trying to pull that together made my brain want to explode. Joneko is going to send me recipes to try for the next time.

No pictures because I forgot about them.

Manly Bento Box

New box came in the mail today! I ordered this for making bigger lunches for teenage little brother. (And sometimes for picnics with friends.)

I got it from VeryAsia.com for about $12 and $4.99 shipping. It shipped very quickly, I was surprised.

Little brother says this box is "really nice" too, excellent! I will be making his Monday lunch tomorrow night and taking pictures.

Please excuse the bored look on my face, I have been rather sleep deprived this week.

Glucose

A friend from my Botany class found these cookies in Dubai and got a package for each of his classmates. He gave them out on a test day too!

They are small biscuit cookies, perfect for a bento dessert. I just used a few in a box for a friend. (Yes, I just made ANOTHER box. This time I used a normal deli container and used cupcake papers as both dividers and as a way to separate the top from the salad. It is basically a Grape Bento but with three cookies in addition too it because the box had some space left. I would have taken a picture, but my camera died. The picture above is from the webcam built into my laptop.)

A Bento For My Mom

I made this box on Sunday night for my mother to take to work with her. She had seen me making "apple bento" before and wanted one for her own. I asked her to take a picture of what was inside!

This is the top tier, the botton was a salad. I do not usually make an "apple bento" in this box because of its shape, but it is nice to know I can! In this tier: cheese slices cookie-cuttered into maple leaves, Late July saltine crackers, apple slices.