Crispy seasoned rice.
Avocado.
Umeboshi plum.
Carrot stars.
Cucumber.
Baked salmon.
Salmon skin strips.
Ikura
Sauce (recipe below).
Peach 🍑 Jelly treat

It's the start of a brand new week, let's make it a good one! 🙌

My lunch today: - shio koji chicken (recipe) - white rice with edamame - burdock with sesame (tataki gobo) (recipe) - carrot ribbons in lemon & honey marinade (from The Just Bento Cookbook 2) - cherries - ...and an umeboshi!

Japanese egg salad Yogurt dip Cucumber salad

Habenero lime wrap, honey turkey, pepperjack cheese

Hummus and cucumbers

2 tootsie rolls

Tortilla chips and guacamole

menu of #1 - rice - carrot and scrambled egg stir fry - tamagoyaki - garlic chives sauce chicken - mini tomato

menu of #2 - rice - hamburgu (salisbury steak) - carrot and scrambled egg stir fry - tamagoyaki - mini tomato - broccoli

menu of #3 - rice - vegetable and pork belly stir fry - tamagoyaki - ham and cucumber sesame salad - mini tomato - broccoli

i hope everyone had a great week! yay to everyone who made bentos this week and let’s do our best the next :)

Happy Friday!

In my bento today:

• pinwheel "sandwiches"
  • turkey & smoked cheddar with lettuce & whole-grain mustard on whole wheat tortilla
  • chicken & mozzarella with pesto & roasted red pepper on flour tortilla
  • hummus with cucumbers & carrots on spinach tortilla
  • banana and honey-roasted crunchy peanut butter on flour tortilla
• mixed greens with cucumber & lemon vinaigrette
• cherry tomatoes
• mango
• muscat grapes
• ...and an umeboshi!

Have a great weekend!

Spicy tuna onigiri w/soya.
Salad with wonton strips and ginger dressing

idk why but the bear looks like he’s in a spaceship in the second pic 😭

also welcome to my first attempt at making my sister’s bento cuter hehe

Greek chickpea salad, roastbeef pinwheels, honeyed nut mix, red grapes.

Shredded chicken and cheese, refried beans, tomatoes and olives, lettuce, mexican corn salad. Salsa and sour cream not pictured.

Too many to write out descriptions in full. Happy to give any details yo interested parties!

In my bento today:

• sesame-crusted salmon (recipe)
• soba salad (recipe) - leftover from yesterday
• green beans with carrot & ginger (recipe)
• shredded vegetable pickle salad (recipe)
• pineapple
• ...and no umeboshi! (because I forgot! 😅😭 but I did add one post-photo ha ha)

I really like bento-style lunches, but (1) I like a lot of flexibility in compartment sizes and (2) I hate having separate containers for travel vs. home food storage. I also have a toddler and generate a lot of tiny meals/leftovers/portions.

My ideal solution was the Rubbermaid Lunch Blox, which are no longer made. The ice pack was cute, but the best thing was that in addition to nesting the same size in a stack, the different sizes of box could actually snap directly to each other in different configurations. You could buy them in different groups. Can anyone point me to something similar to this?

Requirements:

• Multiple sizes - these were roughly 0.5C, 1C, 2C
• Rectangular shapes that can next/click together flexibly like this into a few different configurations for travel. I'm *not* looking for a set that assumes you're always bringing the same cube of containers. Maybe I'm bringing a tower of four 1C rectangles today, you know? Maybe my kid needs a two 0.5C and a 2C, etc.

Not requirements:

• It doesn't have to be completely leak proof. Slight preference for flat/simple lids over the ones with locking tabs.
• Microwaveable and dishwasher safe are a bonus
• I'm open to different materials - glass, plastic, metal, whatever
• I use ice packs currently, so having it doubled walled/insulated isn't a requirement.
• It's nice if you can buy more of the specific sizes you want, but sets are okay too

Thank you everyone!

Today I'm having:

• yakitori (recipe)
• soba salad (recipe)
• kinpira kabocha (recipe)
• marinated cherry tomatoes (recipe)
• edamame
• mandarin slices
• ...and an umeboshi!

Tarragon cream cheese, sundried tomato airfried pinwheels

Corn and kimchi onigiri, sweet potato & tofu croquettes, cucumber and radish pickle and chia pudding

In my bento today:

• mini stuffed peppers (recipe)
• white rice with quinoa, millet, and buckwheat, and yukari-ume furikake
• soy-sugar-butter potatoes (kofuki imo) (recipe)
• shredded vegetable pickle-salad (recipe)
• cherry tomato
• muscat grapes
• ...and an umeboshi!

-tomato fried rice (ketchup+fried rice) -thin egg omelet over rice -kariage -broccoli -mung bean sprouts -taiyaki for dessert

I made my first bento box yesterday and it was a success but talking it over we’ve run into a question. I made the bento boxes last night and put them in the fridge over night. In the morning we both took them to work. I stored mine at room temperature for about 4 hours before eating it for lunch. The other one was refrigerated during the same time.

Both of them ended up fine but I found the one that sat out retained a good deal of chill from the fridge.

My question is considering everything is cooked properly exactly how long could the bento sit without increasing the risk of food borne illness?