Bento Box Blog

Yesterday I mentioned Oktoberfest and how I love the colourful gingerbread hearts (Lebkuchenherzen) which gave me an idea for today's bento! Of course this one is not made of gingerbread; it is a meat sandwich on brown bread cut into a heart shape and decorated with coloured cheese hearts, flowers, leaves and a bow. ...

As featured on Whats for Lunch Wednesday Hello! Long time no see! Here is one I have been wanting to make for ages, but never got round to it until now, due to not having any food colouring left! Not having lettuce in is another excuse but I think maybe my perfectionism was trying to get the ...

It's a bento! It's not a real piece of cake! It's curry flavoured rice, topped with mayo and the "Dolly Mixtures" sweeties on top are made from boiled egg whites, chopped into shapes and coloured with food colouring! Not exactly a piece of cake to create, but lots of fun! I'd better go and clean up ...

Today's bento is a rainbow Tapsi, made using last night's menu-planned evening meal! This is my homework for the Kawaii Bento Club's Bento Summer School! I have mentioned Tapsi before, but I can't remember if I gave you the receipe... it's an Iraqi speciality and it consists of meat, usually beef, and a tomato and onion sauce, ...

Here are some "Cooties" to eat for lunch! Cooties (typically in the USA) means bugs, germs or infectious disease microbes, usually yelled out by kids in the playground "He's got Cooties!!" In England, where I come from, they generally shout "She's got Bugs!" or "He's got Lurgy Bugs!" :D I was in a gadget shop the other ...

We are back from our holiday in England! A grand time was had by all, spending time with friends and family, enjoying events such as picnicking, BBQ food, partying, visiting a fun fair, the seaside and a wildlife park. Food was in abundance - fish and chips, chinese and indian take-away. And Monkey Tea (PG ...

Tomorrow, God willing, I'm taking my babies to see their Grandparents in England! So I will be away for at least 1 week and not able to do any bento-ing. But I thought it would be fun to have a British Themed Bento Event! You can send in a bento previously made or make a fresh ...

I was looking at Bentovention's site the other day and noticed that her Makkuro Kurosuke (Susuwatari) bento characters reminded me of those Weepul pom-pom stickers that you used to see everywhere in the 80's. So I thought I would make my own "Weepul sticker" out of rice and cheese! I coloured the rice purple by mixing ...

I don't usually enter the online bento competitions, (I'm not a gambling lady LOL!) but I wanted to try to make something for the "Rock My Bento" competition from The Kawaii Bento Club seeing as this one is a voting contest. I like the  album covers of Alvin and the Chipmunks Original Sound Track and Alvin ...

Today's bento is a fancy tailed fish made from a kiwi, with apricot fins and radish gills, in a "tank" of blue cous-cous, and I made the clam shell / oyster shell from a piece of apple. My Scaredy Cat Challenge is to lose 26lbs and get fitter. This bento contains not a trace of fat! ...

I'm not having mayonnaise these days, due to trying to slim down, so I couldn't put a ball of Tuna Mayo, my staple bento-ing food in this one.  I could eat this with celery and peanut butter or maybe some walnuts and some chunks of cheese.  Though I imagine this will be quite filling as ...

We had a fantastic day out at "Wildtierpark Poing" in Munich (a wild animal park) on Wednesday! We were able to stroke some rabbits and guinea pigs, and feed antelope, goats, ponies and donkeys! We also saw some huge bears. There were random peacocks wandering around the picnic area as well as chickens and ducks. Here ...

I've been really trying to stick to my FlyLady Routines recently and my house is looking better than it has in a long time! I'm doing Room Rescues, Hot Spot Fire Drills, Using a "Do It Now" approach, taking babysteps, beating perfectionism, just "jumping in" and using my FlyLady Timer and Feather ...

This is from weeks ago - must have forgotten to click "published" as I found it in my drafts... weird I've been a fan of the manga / anime style for a few years. I learnt how to draw a basic manga face from a "How to Draw Manga" book, a few years ago. I haven't ...

It's not a real cupcake - it's a slice of apple in the shape of a cupcake with cheese on top! :D There is tuna-mayo underneath the cupcake, and to the side are some rice ball mushrooms / toadstools. I was really scratching around for ingredients today to be honest. The radishes have gone and the black ...

My DH cooked again. He knows I have 2 favourite dishes of all time (apart from Fish and Chips and Cauliflower Cheese!) ; Iraqi Tapsi and Moroccan Lamb with Prunes. Well, today he made something extraordinary! He made the Iraqi Tapsi with Beef, but it had elements of the flavours of the Moroccan Lamb with ...

We had tuna, sweetcorn and pasta mayo today for lunch, and I made rather a lot, so I put the leftover into a bento for later or tomorrow. I put some of the macaroni tubes together in a row to make the body of the butterfly and gave it a tuna-mayo ball for a head. ...

I made this bento for my DH who wasn't home for dinner today. I had done well to remember to get chicken out of the freezer this morning but as 5pm approached, I still had not got a clue what to do with it. Luckily, my good Blogger, Twitter and Flylady friend @dianedenmark jumped to ...

Today's bento is leftover home-made Lasagne with a peanut butter sandwich, topped with a cheese character holding a bunch of heart shaped balloons. (for the cheese colouring tutorial, click here). If you look closely, you will see Daffy Duck in the lasagne topping - spooky - I didn't put him there ! LOL :D The apple ...

Today's bento is a Mac n Cheese with a Zigzag carved apple and some broccoli and cucumber, with coloured cheese (click for the cheese colouring tutorial) cut into a flower design. This one was served hot, so I had to be quick with the photo before the cheese flowers melted and before the apple started ...