bento 2: i heart you

okay so brett's review is in: he enjoyed his hot dog bento, but he wanted the bun packed separate from his hot dog because "the bun was too cold." okay! the rest of the lunch was okay: he liked the mangos, he liked the salad, hot dogs are awesome, etc, etc. i asked him if he wanted a sandwich for tomorrow and he requested more hot dogs but we only had vegan ones so here is hot dog bento redux, with vegan dogs. (and buns packed separately for temperature regulation)


that is a mini jello (a vegan agar-agary one) that you may see peeking out of the middle (in front of the bun-less not-dogs) and another one on the upper right. then there are onions and bbq sauce--i know, who eats bbq on their hot dogs? apparently brett. what a vegan monstrosity.

also that thing in the back is a green-tea mochi. i think they're kinda gross but brett loves them. someone at his work today asked if he had someone japanese in his family and he was like nope... just katie, who loves lo's seafood and asian market like nothing else on this earth. and whose diet consists largely of scallion pancakes from there and is going to be 700 lbs by september (no offense to my 700 lb readers)


more mango and spargel and salad. no carrot goldfish because it was graduation day at my school today and i spent most of the day sitting in the hot sun. and the rest of the day moving furniture in the hot sun. ...and there's an SVU marathon on...

bento 1: goldfish garden!

hi my name's katie and this is my blog. i like bento boxes and i like my boyfriend. most of the time. so here you will see me making lunch for my boyfriend, or rather the lunches i make for him, and right now its about BENTOS! because they are awesome. sometimes i might show my own lunch. but i don't have to pack a lunch currently. but that doesn't mean it's not fabu.

i go to school at colby college (bleh) but right now i'm home for summer and----that means lots of time to pack brett's lunches!


this is what i made today! not the best pictures ever for some reason. i don't have a good bento box for brett yet so this is two regular old plastic containers. (tuppaware? is that how you spell it?)


i am a vegan but for those of you who know brett and me he is obviously not. so here you have a hot dog at the bottom and then across the top left to right there's some noodle/cabbage salad with a ginger dressing, ketchup in the middle, and on the right is some asparagus. (spargel, for those who know me, das wichtigest gemuese der welt (oder etwas)). any way!


this is a salad with spinach and spring greens, some carrot goldfish (i have a special little cutter), cukes, onions, and tomatoes. there are also some little plastic fishies filled with dressing. they are supposed to be for soy sauce and they don't work fabulously for dressing but hey its day 1 we're only going up from here. the yellow thingers are chopped up mango. WHICH IS AMAZING.

i also gave him two little mochi, one green tea and one sesame. they're not in the picture though. there's also a tiny jelly i just remembered in between the ketchup and the hot dog i think its in the close up. ideally i want to get some big springy lettuce leaves to stuff in between the edges of his hot dog and stuff but i think it came out pretty well for my first one. there you have it!