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

First Wednesday!

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Welcome to The Bento Chronicles!

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

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EMI'S BENTO

Upper compartment: Grapes on toothpick; raisins on toothpick; pineapple on toothpick; strawberries; meager bed of lettuce.

Lower compartment: Azuki rice ball with nori cutouts (in shape of man's face); azuki rice ball with nori cutouts and kamaboko strips (in shape of flower); kamaboko slices; steamed sweet potato and konyaku; bed of lettuce.

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SIERRA'S BENTO

Upper compartment: Sunkist Fruit snacks.

Lower compartment: White rice with vegenaise wrapped in nori, teriyaki baked tofu and cheese chunks on toothpicks.

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From left: Emi, Sierra