Deviled Eggs and Salad Bento

Rub a dub dub

New gear, new year!

I purchased some adorable little containers for bento and filled them with salad-friendly accouterments. 

chia, salad dressing, and cashews

Mixed organic salad greens, deviled eggs, a squeeze of lime in the yellow part. From the garden last summer some dried Juliet tomatoes, and cabot cheese with the animals in the green part. Honey crackers, and a couple of hard Jolly Rogers candies in the beige part. 

Put it all together and what do you got?

 

Deviled eggs and salad

All wrapped up in a Burger Box!

Hamburger Bento Box!

both of my polar bear boxes bento

These are my two polar bear bento boxes. The white one has a cool gel in the lid that you freeze to keep a small box of, in this case, cut up watermelon super cool. The aqua color case has lock down lid with a polar bear wearing a striped t-shirt. In that box, I packed vinegar rice on the bottom and teri-chicken with a bottle of soy sauce and a few dill pickles in the top.

The background is my dreary desk, so now you know why I need my lunchtime smile. 

I did another polar bear bento way back near the beginning of my bento career. It's fun to look back at my attempts to be innovative with bento. Though sometimes it just comes down to time. 

Octopus's Garden Bento

The Mister was super upset with me. Aren't the eyes suppose to be on the side? Well, I said, these are baby octopi. He was quite upset that the clams were too big (in relation to other things) and what's that purple stuff?

Well, I said, (after fussing with this Tiffin bento long enough), it is what it is. And then he ate it.

After that, he wasn't so grumpy.

Polar Bear Bento

The Mister works in the great outdoors and will eat everything on his plate, everything on my plate, and everything leftover. In other words, the man is hungry!

So yesterday I made a little appetizer while the dinner was cooking. I've been wanting to use my charm stones as cold packs in my bento. Here, though, the polar bear is more of a decoration (He is chilled though.) And the shrimp are sitting on crushed ice too.