Bento #6

Steamed brown rice, black beans, sauteed chopped vegetables

Process: Warmed up the leftover brown rice from the previous day and filled bentos halfway. Warmed veggies and beans in some oil. Placed cookie cutter in each, filled with veggies and surrounded with black beans. Removed the cutters before eating, so the boys could mix everything together, but the shapes were completely lost without them in there, so for the picture they stayed in. 

Feedback: Can I eat it can I eat it can I eat it?

(kosher, gluten free, vegan)

Bento #2

Leftover pizza dinosaurs and leaves, leaf cut carrots, spinach

Process: Filled the containers halfway with spinach leaves. Took leftover anchovy + mushroom pizza and used cookie cutters to punch out dinosaurs and leaves. Used leaf cutter to cut out more leaves from sliced carrots. Placed the dinosaurs (triceratops, fyi) to browse through their leafy jungle.

This was more of a snack bento than a full lunch, as the boys were not very hungry. The pizza was leftover frozen pizza that had everything going for it (GF, kosher dairy, okay price point) but the taste. Too bad. Next time I will use plain pizza for the cutouts, as the toppings obscured the shape a bit. Also, need to use a tastier pizza.

Feedback: Wow! Also: Mmmm, I love carrot trees! I mean leaves!

(kosher, gluten-free)