That’s Bento Boxed Lunch of course.
At first I was a little weirded out by this whole idea, it seems to involve lots of plastic containers, and lots of food cut into cute shapes, but where do all those discarded edges go? What a waste.
But after reading further, I can see the appeal. I treat everyday lunches so casually. Usually, I pop something frozen into the microwave at work, and save my thought, effort, and creativity for dinner, the important meal. I could get into these adorable and appealing little lunches, that mostly seem very well-balanced.
Here’s blogs about bentos I found that I like a lot:
All My Bento Are Belong To Me
Lunch In A Box
Cooking Cute
And here’s one that’s some really wild and great food art, but I’m not really sure I’d want to eat:
Sakurako Kitsa’s Flickr
Jeremy Osborne says:
These were very popular where I used to work full time.
Nice new website, by the way.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Yvo says:
Hey, thanks for the shout out! I eat my “scraps” for breakfast. Lately I’ve been not cutting things into shapes but were I to shape a sandwich (one of the few things I’ve shaped actually), the crust and all gets crammed into my mouth as breakfast :)
February 1st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
jannamo says:
Yvo, yes, scraps are good! And I’m surprised I didn’t think of that after I spent my first 3 years out of college as a nanny, and subsisted solely on crusts on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. :)
February 6th, 2008 at 10:29 am