She was an American Girl bento

If I had a pub, an American pub, I'd probably serve sliders and beans and fries too. I'd serve plenty of vegetarian dishes too. I was vegetarian for awhile, and eating out was the hardest thing. Everything looked delish except for the veg plate. Slab of tofu on rice, anyone. 

This is leftover. Beef sliders with Colby/Monterey Jack cheese and pinquintos beans with Mexican cheese were made by me the night before. 

Below are sides for the sliders: sliced pickles, tomatoes slices, red leaf lettuce, and Bob's Bleu Cheese Dressing in the kiwi container. On the left: watermelon balls. Summertime!

This is the sides box closed.
With the cute TOTORO!

Mini Tostados and Lemon Slice bentos

To the right here is Wednesday's lunch. I can see by adding the extra chips that one cannot tell that those were meant to be three mini tostados. But they were.

They were filled with refried beans and green salsa and topped with cheddar cheese.


On Thursday I did a little experiment with an artichoke heart leftover from the previous night's dinner. We eat a lot of artichokes. It's easy for him to make. The trick to keeping them is lemon juice as chokes oxidize to a rather unappetizing black color.

When I open the box at work, the lemon smell was powerful and I was afraid to taste the choke at first, but it was surprisingly delish.