I do use my bento boxes.

It's the secret side of my life. I don't try to keep it secret or anything. I just don't talk about what I have for lunch. I do eat lunch so I may as well make it easy to carry since I'm lugging it into school everyday. Some days I feel like I'm moving in over there, and I barely notice a tiny Bento Box my purse.

When I noticed Lyvvie's blog site Obento Baby, I became interested in how she packed lunches for her children and her husband and sometimes for herself. I had packed lunches for the kids and Jody in the past. I had used my fair share of Tupperware containers but nothing like this! This beat Tupperware to death with a greasy rubber spatula. These little boxes were awesome!

I began visiting other Bento sites, and getting lots of ideas. Before Jolea left town she packed my first Bento lunch, you may remember the white bread Onigiri. So today's post is to thank Lyvvie for making my work day lunch more interesting, and to prove to some of those people whom I've commented on their posts, YES I do use my bento boxes.

This jumbled mess is the inside of my purse. The pink fabric box contains my lunch. Let me apologize for the lighting in these pictures, this one of my purse was taken in the dark in the entry hall of our house before I walked out the door.









Here's my little sandwich box bag.... what ever you want to call it. It's like a lunch bag, but no handle.









This is the sandwich box. For you first timers, it's held shut with that little pink elastic band.












Take off the lid and there's my chicken salad sandwich in all it's washed out glory. No, there's no need for a baggie or plastic wrap. (That's another reason for using bento... no baggies.) The inside of the bento sandwich box/bag is insulated. The little open grid in the box keeps the sandwich from getting soggy.


The bottom section, that's covered by a little lid holds the good stuff. Chopped mango, a strawberry, some black berries and a slice of chocolate cake. A little yellow fork like pick. The juicy stuff is in a little paper cup like container. That lime is for the mango, keeps me from having an allergic reaction.









And here's what my friend Lourdes had for lunch!

My bentos rarely have any onigiri or traditional bento cutesie pootsie stuff like all those professional Mamas make, but it does it's job really well. If you are interested in what the Pros pack in their bentos, check out the sites I have listed over on the right, under the heading of MMMMM Food.


This is exactly the reason Jody doesn't read blogs.