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!

Antipasta Bento

So we got the Antipasta plate at Villa San-Juilette winery the other weekend. And I simply must re-create it for a bento.

Salami and olives, cheese, in this case Brie, with tomatoes (my addition), dried fruit, nuts, in this case walnuts and peanuts. All in my lock n load box. I even had a passerby compliment my "lunchbox."

A Grade Ahh Bento

A Mr. Bento bento + A thermos of tea = Grade A Bento

Do you need a description?

Well OK - Here it goes.

Walnuts and chocolate - ahh!

Carrots and cabbage - ahh the next day.

Freshly made rice - ahh filling the tummy.

Little chicken dumplings - ahh yummy in the tummy.

Not just a Grade A Bento, 

A Grade Ahh Bento.

Deconstructed Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Bento

I'm back in the groove of making bread, so for lunch this past Wednesday I decided to bring various spreads and crackers and bread. Black raspberry fruit spread, peanut butter, and marmalade in one box, and hummus in its very own container box so as not to taint the others. 

Chocolate-covered almonds from a local nut house, and chocolate-covered raisins, Brazil nuts, and raspberry newtons occupy another box. This box lasted three lunches. 

Nesting boxes are particularly handy when some items should be kept chilled while other need not be. They are also handy because the sweets and nuts box can come to work everyday to ward off the 3pm hunger monster. Believe me that candy box is not my daily portion!

Don't forget the tangerine.

Ribs for Lunch on Thursday

This is my Kiki's Delivery Box. Nice and big to hold two baby back ribs and a big old container of hummus. The penguin pick is for the blueberries. The crackers for the hummus. The pickle for crunchy deliciousness. The kimchee for my health.

Go to the very bottom of this blog and feed the goldfish. Peace.

Happy Hump Day Hello Kitty Bento

Oh My Goodness! If you have never tried cut peaches and blueberries together, you must! So Good! Better than candy! A +++++.

The other side: eh. Hummus in a bell pepper cup that is shaped like a heart. Carrot jewels and butterflies. Pecans.

Hello Kitty Thermos filled with ice and water.

And we're off!

As seen on What's for Lunch Wednesday right here. What did you have for lunch on Wednesday?

Three Amigos Bento

Last Thursday I took this nutritious lunch to work with me. It really was a jungle out there!

The sandwich box, the yellow one with the holes, had whole grain crackers, whole wheat bagel with PB, a donut peach whole, donut peach cut up, and a piggie in a blanket.

The front box had pickles, carrots, celery, jicama, hummus, pecans, and my three amigos holding pieces of white cheese in the shape of a star.

They're really cute with their covers, aren't they?

Jicama Mumms Bento

This is Wednesday's bento and yes, that is a whole wheat bagel (good) filled with pastrami (bad) and two little pigs in blankets with a side of mustard. Bon Jour! Ms. Judy!

Love this box, my smiling Loaf.

The bottom layer we have blueberries, carrots and celery, pecans, hummus, and a lion hiding amongst the jicama mumms.

I was so tempted to put eyes on that bagel.

As seen on What's for lunch at our house: what's for lunch Wednesday.

May 4 bento - A week of bentos for my inner child

I like my crackers to be crunchy, my kim chee to be cold, my chicken untainted, and my berries not fainted.

I'm using two of the new little round boxes purchased from Japanistic. The silver round came with my Eco Box probably meant for a side of sauce, and that glass dish is a Martha Stewart container for leftovers.

I decided the kim chee had to go in the metal container. It would wreck plastic, and indeed it did stain the plastic lid. Anyone know how to get that off?

White chicken meat was leftover from the dinner before.

Blueberries, radish, strawberry, and a grape tomato sit on baby greens.

Pistachios and snack crackers with one, and only one rice paper candy.

President Kitty bento

The left side of this bento is leftover from yesterday's romantic lunch. The blue cat is guarding my riches as she has pork and shrimp dumpling in her toes, and the fried chicken has been renamed as "OMG! This Is So Good!" Likely to become my Go-To take-out food.

The right side of Madam President Kitty bento box is roasted peanuts, chocolate-covered raisins, a strawberry, some wild wasabi wonton chips, and two small squares of a seaweed snack that taste salty and nutty.

The flowered teacup is filled with orange spice tea.

So as Hello Kitty purrs, "A Happy Presidents' Day to all my friends and felines!"

The Quiche Purse Bento

Rice balls with sesame oil, and egg and cheese mini quiche inspired by hapa bento, and fresh organic berries, radishes, grape tomatoes, and assorted nuts round up this Sunday snack purse of a bento.

I think of painting the purse and then I cannot decide. What would you do?

Happy First Sunday of 2010!

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