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The Bento Journey Begins!
Yesterday I was pouring over blogs and scrapbooks FULL of gorgeous bento pictures, from the cute-and-cuddly children's bentos to hearty bentos to light-snack bentos to breakfast bentos, and finally decided to leap in and take the plunge. Never mind that my fridge is empty, we have no car to go grocery shopping, and we lack actual bento boxes - I made a bento for dinner, hee hee. For my hubby and me!



Here's what's in it: From the left - roll up bologna sandwiches, peas and carrots, my first attempt at two hot dog octopi and a hot dog crab. On the right, white basmati rice with black sesame seed and a gingerbread man cut out of very very thin sliced bologna (a gingerbread man was the *only* cookie cutter I had), and diced chicken with more black sesame and teriyaki sauce. It was a lot of fun to do, and I was really proud of how it turned out, for using such untraditional foods.

Tomorrow morning the little brother is picking me up and taking me to the grocery store, and I can get food and fruit and veggies for future bentos, though the bentos for tomorrow are already made :)