Sly Cat and a Totoro Snack Pack Bentos

Cute little flap-down bento box that I'm calling Sly Cat. It's filled with cous cous with pine nuts and homemade kimchee. I always bring a juice and a piece of fruit with my lunch bentos that I end up drinking/eating at 3:00pm to power through the afternoon

I'll be working later starting this summer, so I might bring an extra bento. But the main problem is I need refrigeration. I like the "two hour rule" even with blue ice. It's just that it gets so hot around here!

This is my lovely Totoro snap bento. The pick and container are from Japanese planes, trains, and automobiles set that is perfect for a little boy (or a little girl if the little girl was like me). I still like to chase trains.

Homemade Bread with Brie and Butter Bento

As the title suggests, this bento features homemade bread, a small slice of brie, a knob of butter, peanut butter in the green kiwi container, grapes, and carrots.

All for the last day of Spring in my Springtime Totoro bento box!

Bamboo Bento

For the inaugural use of my Springtime Totoro bento box, I have done pandas playing in a bamboo forest made of cucumber sandwiches with carrot jewels and blueberries (which are jewels for the body).

The cottage cheese rabbit is feasting on curly kale and two radish mice are trying to hide under the bread stick wood pile.

The bamboo sandwich idea came from the very first bento, that was made by Nedalin Malle, that I put in my Elegant Bento Gallery on Flickr.

Galleries are a great way to keep the pictures that inspire you close at hand. A lot like favorite-ing a photo, galleries are more like finding a theme and building a collection. I recommend trying this fun feature in Flickr.

I plan to go back to adding and deleting (only 18 pictures are allowed to a single gallery) to this gallery to see if I can get a single representation of an elegant bento from 18 bento artists.