Bentos #26-7: Mix n Match!

Bento #26:

My bento: Fried Rice and Stir Fry Veggies (frozen) with a soy sauce fishy, and frozen chicken nuggets, with a spidey-dish of sweet and sour sauce.  And yeah... Sweet Baby Rays in the background.  I didn't actually take any of that tho.  I got it out for Dante's box. It just showed up in my pic. 

Dante's, same, but with a Rice Krispies Treat thrown in, and the Sweet and Sour Sauce in a Lightning McQueen dish.  We're such grown-ups.  :-D

 Bento #27: 

Salad with mozzarella and craisins again, Mini-lasagnas (see earlier post), and graham crackers. 

By the way, I forgot to mention it in the last post, but Bentos 25-27 were all made (in duplicate, mind you), in less than 10 minutes.  And the photos were taken with my phone.  

Happy bentos!

Rowan

Bento #2- More Fried Rice and Shrimp

Day two of Bento-making!  YAY!  Used our second set of boxes today.

The contents of today's bentos look awfully familiar, but they were delicious yesterday, so... if it ain't broke, don't fix it!  (Plus we have leftovers to use up!)

Dante's bento: Fried rice, shrimp, sweet and sour/soy sauce, and mixed fruit with an umbrella pick. 

And a blurry pic of mine (oops!).  Again, same basic thing, but no shrimp, and with frozen veggies instead.  (Pardon the craft supplies in the background...)  Important note: be careful when taking bands off bento boxes, or you may end up with fruit in your lap........

Mr. Dante is cooking up an AWESOME smelling beef dish in the crock pot today, so that will probably be featured in our next bentos.  I can't wait!

I think Dante and I are going to go scouting for bento accessories tonight, which should be fun.  Course, we have to be a bit creative about it, since there aren't ANY bento supplies stores around here.  Not even World Market or the local Asian Grocery (Ok, they do have a COUPLE bento boxes, but they're Mr. Bento = $$).  But I think we're both plenty creative.  ;-) We're also planning another bento adventure for this weekend when Chloe's here.  Yay!

Still haven't taken pics of all the boxes, but I will.  Promise!

Bento #1- Fried Rice and Potstickers!

Ok, so I'm super excited about starting making bentos.  Ridiculously so.  And I've got Dante, my best bud (Chloe),  and my mother into it now too!  Go me!  And I just made my first real bentos today!  (Ok, I did play around with them a little bit one other time, but I'm still calling this my official first bento.)

We just got our bento boxes yesterday, which was AWESOME.  (I'll post pics of the boxes later, don't have photos of those just yet.)  So I HAD to use them for lunch today, even though I was having a really late lunch (evening class) and Dante was going to be home for lunch...

So these were my less-than-beautiful, but terribly exciting bentos today:

This is Dante's box, which is plain black at the moment, but hopefully will be customized soon (yay!).  Top layer had fried rice and homemade potstickers, with a soy sauce fishy and half a dozen shrimp.  Bottom layer had a baked wonton cup with a sprinkling of sugar and frozen triple berry mix, with frozen stir fry veggies and a container of sweet and sour sauce (Yes, Mr. Dante had a heart-shaped container that said hugs.  That's what I've got right now! lol).

This is my pretty blue box.  It has dragonflies on the top.  :-)  Same basic menu as Dante's box, but sans shrimp (not a big crustacean fan).  It's sad what a geeky pleasure I got out of eating my bento lunch this evening.  *Big grin*

Bought two boxes for Chloe as a gift (shhh!) too, so the plan is this weekend when she comes to visit (yay!), we'll go scouting for accessories.  I know there are a couple stores around here that have a pretty wide variety of chopsticks and we'll be hitting World Market I think looking for small silverware to go with.

Looking forward to many more Bentos!!  YAY!

~Rowan