Picnic Bento

This one is based on foods you might eat at a picnic.

Contents

Deviled Egg Halves

Insulated Container Baked Beans

Potato Salad

Cole Slaw

Pimiento Cheese Stuffed Celery Sticks

Watermelon Wedges

Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers

Grilled Cheese Sandwich & Tomato Soup Bento

This one is based on everyone's favorite kid lunch, but with adult flavors.

Contents

Grilled Cheese Sandwich on a Whole Wheat Sandwich Flat: Wrapped in foil to keep it warm.

Insulated Container Homemade Tomato-Basil Soup: Follow the link for the recipe.

Cucumbers in Sour Cream: Follow the link for the recipe.

Clementine

Brownie: Follow the link for the recipe.

Japanese Sushi Bento

This bento is a tribute to all things Japanese, the inventors of the bento box.

Contents

6 Pieces of Cream Cheese Roll Sushi: This is my favorite kind of sushi.

Potstickers: I get them frozen and heat them in the microwave. They go in my insulated container.

Mini Container Soy Sauce

Medium Container Sesame Steamed Green Beans: These are steamed green beans with a little sesame oil, a little rice vinegar, some sesame seeds, and a little salt.

Seaweed Snacks

Wasabi Peanuts

Clementine

Pocky

Fall Holiday Meal Bento

This bento is based upon my favorite foods from Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. And, like those dinners, it has way too much food in it; I usually have to save some of it for later.

Contents

Turkey Sandwich on Whole Wheat Bread: I use Oscar Mayer Carving Board Turkey, which tastes very close to leftover turkey from a holiday meal.

Small Container Roasted Baby Potatoes: Cut 4 baby read potatoes into quarters and put them in a baking dish. Drizzle them with olive oil and sprinkle them with salt. Roast in a 400 degree oven for 30 minutes.

Mini Container Turkey Gravy: I just use canned or jarred gravy; this is to dip the potatoes in.

Insulated Container Green Bean Casserole: I just make this on top of the stove. Mix together a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and half a cup of milk in a saucepan. Add 2 drained regular-sized cans of cut green beans and half a big can of French-fried onions. Heat and stir until it's hot and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the other half of the can of onions. Now it's ready to go into the insulated container.

Small Container Corn Bites: Mix up a small corn muffin mix (like Jiffy) with the ingredients listed on the package according to package directions. Stir in a 12 oz. package of frozen corn. Bake in a mini muffin pan according to package directions.

Small Container Honey-Glazed Baby Carrots: Follow the link for the recipe.

Celery Sticks Stuffed with Pimiento Cheese Spread: I've discovered Italian Rose Pimiento Cheese Spread, available at Walmart, tastes very close to the pimiento cheese my aunt Barbara used to make.

Fuji Apple

Mini Pumpkin Pie from Walmart

Sparkling Apple Cider

Chicken Nuggets Bento

This bento is based upon a great recipe for almond crusted chicken nuggets I got from Pinterest. It has a variety of dipping sauces, as well as a variety of dippers.

Contents

Large Container Almond Crusted Chicken Nuggets: Follow the link for the recipe. These are baked and coated with seasoned almond flour, so they're reasonably healthy.

Mini Container BBQ Sauce

Mini Container Honey Mustard

Mini Container Ranch Dressing

Medium Container Roasted Baby Potatoes: Cut 4 baby potatoes into quarters. Put them in a baking dish, drizzle them with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. Roast in a 400 degree oven for 30 minutes.

Small Container Baby Carrots

Small Container Mini Sweet Peppers

Fuji Apple

Dark Chocolate Covered Graham Cracker

Pizza Bento

This bento allows you to make your own mini pizza. It is good cold, but if you take it to a place where there's a microwave, it's even better after zapping it briefly to melt the cheese!

Contents

Whole Wheat Sandwich Flat: Half of this makes the "crust" for your pizza. If you take a whole one, you have crusts for two pizzas.

Mini Container Pizza or Marinara Sauce: Spread a spoonful of this on a sandwich flat half with a spoon.

Mini Container Pepperoni Slices

Mini Container Diced Red Bell Peppers

Mini Container Sliced Mushrooms

Mini Container Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Spread the sauce on a sandwich flat half with a spoon, and top your pizza with the other toppings, ending with cheese. If you have a microwave, zap it for 30 seconds to a minute, just until the cheese melts. If you don't, it's still good cold.

Medium Container Casear Salad: This is just romaine lettuce, garlic croutons and shaved parmesan.

Mini Container Caesar Dressing

Mini Fruit Pizza: This is a soft sugar cookie spread with strawberry cream cheese spread and topped with assorted fruits, cut up small. In one in the picture, I used sliced strawberries, sliced kiwi fruit, and clementine sections.

Ice Cream & Bacon Bento

This bento is themed on two of my favorite foods, ice cream and bacon!

Contents

Bacon & Asparagus Roll-Ups: Just wrap steamed asparagus spears in bacon. Yummy!

Velveeta-Wrapped Bacon: I've been meaning to try this new Kraft product.

Red Jawbreaker with Seaweed Snack Star: This gave me a chance to use my star cookie cutter. Didn't work too well, actually.

Cauliflower Floret with Weevils: A concession to nutrition. I probably won't eat it.

ICE CREAM with Chocolate Sprinkles!!: This gives me a chance to try out my half frozen/half warm bento box! Hope it doesn't melt.