Thirteenth Wednesday!

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Eleventh Wednesday!

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EMI'S BENTO


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SIERRA'S BENTO


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Tenth Wednesday!

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SIERRA'S BENTO



Two sets of nearly identical bentos. The top and left compartments contain a potato salad, and "rabbit" apples. The bottom right compartments include spinach wrapped in egg, and "octopus" tofu-dogs. Some sweet peaches are in the hearts.

Ninth Wednesday!

From left to right:Ellie's bento, Emi's bento, Linda's bento

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ELLIE'S BENTO



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EMI'S BENTO

Top comparment: Mandarin orange wedges; Pepperidge farm holiday cookie on top of aluminum foil.
Bottom comparment: Bed of ginger noodles; rice fishies decorated with nori strips; chunks of daikon; baby tomatoes.

It's great getting new people on the blog!! Linda, one of my best friends, brings a lovely bento every single day. This is our first time capturing her lunch on camera, but we'd love to make her a regular feature!

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From left to right: Linda, Ellie, and Emi.

Eighth Wednesday!

From left to right: Sierra's Bento, Ellie's Bento

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Sierra's Bento

Left compartment: Edamame
Right compartment: Mushroom rice with cheese on top and nori cut-outs like a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, with a chocolate muffin with sprinkles outlining a bat.

Seventh Wednesday!

EMI'S BENTO

Top comparment: Grapes; cantaloupe slices with pomegranate seeds.

Bottom comparment: Chococat-shaped, shiso-flavored rice ball with nori for fur, daikon slices for ears, soba noodles for whiskers, and a piece of confectionary decoration for the nose; lettuce and carrot shavings around edge.



Bento completion at 2 in the morning!
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SIERRA'S BENTO

Pink Compartment: Greek pasta salad (recipe from foodnetwork.com)
Yellow Compartment: Fruit Snack and olives in heart containers, fake Trader Joe's brand 'chicken,' star cut-outs of pita bread with hummus spread and feta cheese.
Blue compartment: For my dad :) A "spongebob" sandwich made of pita bread, hummus spread, feta cheese, olive slices, and fake chicken. The top, cheddar cheese, Cheez-its, nori cuts, and more pita bread! On the side: Greek yogurt.

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From left to right: Ellie, Emi, Sierra, Kathryn.

Sixth Wednesday!

Left to right: Ellie's bento, Emi's bento.

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ELLIE'S BENTO

Top Compartment: Yakisoba stir-fry noodles with mushrooms and broccoli, french fries, edamame, plastic edame shaped soy sauce container (pretending to be one of the edible edamames :p).

Bottom Compartment: Totoro shaped rice balls (white rice and gray/black rice made by mixing white rice with ground black sesame seeds) with mushroom eyes and nori features, corn and edamame.

Sadly this week, we only had two people. :( But on the brightside, I think this week's bentos were both really good. This is my second week making a character bento (キャラ弁) and I think I'm really liking it. And this Wednesday both Emi and I had character bentos and I think it was very cute.

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EMI'S BENTO

Top Compartment: Pineapple chunks, strawberry slices, and broccoli heads; one Newton's Own Mint Crème cookie cut in half.

Bottom Compartment: Badtz Maru-shaped rice ball with nori and daikon features; sliced kamaboko, strawberries, and broccoli heads around edges.



Left to right: Emi, Badtz Maru, and Tora.
I agree with Ellie! These character bentos are more fun to make than just plain ol' riceballs. :)

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Left to right: Emi, Ellie.

Fifth Wednesday!

From bottom left, clock-wise: Kathryn's bento, Emi's bento, Tayler's bento, Ellie's bento, Sierra's bento.

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ELLIE'S BENTO

Top compartment: Nimono (simmered vegetables): bamboo, carrots, shitake mushrooms, konnyaku. Edamame and apple cut in the shape of a bunny.
Bottom compartment: Lettuce, edamame on animal toothpicks, broccoli, corn, riceball in the shape of Hello Kitty with nori eyes and whiskers, corn nose, and carrot decoration on the ear.



With my mommy who helped me make my bento this week. :)

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EMI'S BENTO

Top compartment: Bed of lettuce, border of dried apricots and grapes, tin foil holder with avocado and plum slices (covered with lemon juice to prevent discoloration!).
Bottom compartment: Left side: Bed of lettuce, takuan (pickled radish) slice, pieces of cantaloupe, ikaten (squid tempura) pig with takuan for snout and colored toothpicks, sprinkled with shiso. Right side: Shiso rice, blue cupcake decoration sprinkles, quail egg mouse with red and yellow cupcake decoration sprinkles for eyes and ears and colored toothpicks, dried berry border, plastic grass.

Showing off my edible pets!

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KATHRYN'S BENTO

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SIERRA'S BENTO

This was the first bento I made in the morning instead of the night before, so it was put together rather quickly! Top compartment: chocolate muffin, mandarin oranges, cheese cubes. Bottom compartment: I <3 Bento ;) Thermos: Instant udon noodle soup- Yum!

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From left: Tayler, Ellie, Sierra, Kathryn, Emi.

Fourth Wednesday!

From left, clock-wise: Kristie's Bento, Emi's Bento, Sierra's Bento, Madi's Bento, Kathryn's Bento, Ellie's Bento.

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ELLIE'S BENTO

Top compartment: Cucumber rolls, sauted mushrooms on plastic animal toothpicks, soy sauce in a plastic edamame container.

Bottom compartment: Matsutake mushroom rice balls and nori bear, seaweed salad.

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EMI'S BENTO

Top comparment: Bed of lettuce, cucumber spiral with sweet potato slices and nori, sweet potato stack with nori, kamaboko slices.
Bottom comparment: Salmon, rice with green peas and furikake, broccoli, kamaboko slice, piece of lettuce.

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KATHRYN'S BENTO

This is one of three bento's made at once!
Top comparment: Mandarin orange slices, "grass" divider, strawberry mochi squares, soy sauce in a bear container, udon noodles on a mini bed of lettuce.
Bottom comparment: Rice with hidden chunks of hot-dog style fish, nori "keys" of a keyboard, and squeezable cheese border.
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MADI'S BENTO



Top compartment: Blueberries and strawberries.

Bottom compartment: Fruit snacks, decorative grass, rice cubes, plastic animal soy sauce containers.

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SIERRA'S BENTO

Top Compartment: The bottom of my bento lunch. White Rice with nori cut-outs, lettuce, udon noodle, soy sauce in soy sauce container, mandarin orange.
Bottom Compartment: I made my Dad a bento. I had always thought it would be cute to make a bento for a boy, my boyfriend or someone, but my first bento for a guy was for my daddy. Rice with nori punches, soy sauce in soy sauce container, veggie sausage and cheddar cheese on toothpics, and wasabi in little container.

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From left: Madi, Katherine, Seirra, Kathryn, Ellie, Emi, Kristie.

Third Wednesday!

From left, clock-wise: Kathryn's Bento, Tayler's Bento, Ellie's Bento, Emi's Bento, Sierra's Bento.

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ELLIE'S BENTO


Top compartment: Concord grapes, decorative grass, rice cubes with nori (for the face and die) and hijiki.

Bottom compartment: Cucumber rolls, broccoli with sesame sauce, plastic purple fish toothpick, mini soy sauce container.

Admiring my art. :)
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EMI'S BENTO


Top compartment: Melon cube, pineapple slices, decorative grass, blueberries on toothpicks, bed of lettuce (in shape of hula dancer).

Bottom compartment: Rice balls with furikake, nori nose cutout, pickled ginger mouth, blackberry eyes, soba noodles with nori bow cutout, narutomaki fishcake slices, bed of lettuce.

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SIERRA'S BENTO

Top compartment:Lettuce, 1/4 cup Rice with olive eyes and nori facial features, curvy cut carrots, and apple slices.

Bottom compartment: Strawberry wafer cookies, strawberry-choocolate candies, peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich, with heart-cut-outs from strawberry fruit-roll.

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From left: Emi, Sierra, Tayler, Ellie.

Second Wednesday!

From left: Sierra's bento, Emi's bento, Ellie's bento

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EMI'S BENTO

Upper compartment: Cantaloupe melon stuck with toothpicks (left side: raisins; right side: grape); bed of fried rice and lettuce.
Lower compartment: Azuki rice balls; kamaboko slices; egg slices with nori; bed of lettuce.



Excited to eat the creation.
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ELLIE'S BENTO



Rice with nori cutouts and purple potato powder; edamame; apple slices; soy sauce in edamame container.

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SIERRA'S BENTO

The original bento for this day had been tossed and turned in a backpack all day waiting to be eaten, and had no individual pictures taken of it. Therefore, here is the very first bento of our Bento Chronicles.
Upper compartment: Blueberries and Gold fish crackers.
Lower compartment: White rice, nori cut-outs, and soy sauce in miniature bottles.

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From left: Emi, Sierra, Ellie