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I packed a Mr. Bento lunch for jj yesterday.

In jj’s lunch there is edemame with a small container of soy sauce, sushi pizza, dried mangoes and Carob Fudge that is to die for, and a sliced apple.

Mr. Bento is a Japanese lunch box. It comes from the Japanese way a cooking and compartmentalizing different foods. You can view here, here and here.

Mr. Bento is especially nice because it has four different containers that you put in a larger stainless steal container. We put the stainless steal container in the fridge over night and it keeps the food that we put in it cold all day long. It also makes you feel very on top of things to have lunch prepared the night before, you can just grab it and run out the door. The smaller containers each have different purposes, there is the rice container, the liquid container with a rubber ring around it to keep things in or out, and then two smaller container for what ever else you would like.

We initially only bought one for jj, but I go out occasionaly and felt left out. So we got me one also. Usually jj just rotates between the two. When I need one I fill it with food for me and Gentry to take. The other day we went to Discovery Gateway, up where they have the helicopter on the deck we pulled it out and ate it. I had a spinach salad with raisins, cashews and blue cheese dressing. Gentry had his usual of corn chips and salsa. We shared an orange and some mango slices and were ready to go and play some more. It was also nice because it fit in the backpack that I had with me and I did not have to pay the astronomical McDonald’s prices for the food that was in the museum. The food was also nice and cold, like I had just gotten it out of the fridge.

We are a bento family, always on the lookout for good things to fill our bentos with. You can see what people are doing with their Mr. Bento’s here.

Carob Fudge (from Simple Foods For the Pack)
1 cup sunflower seeds
2 tablespoons carob powder (I just used cocoa powder)
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon water

Put seeds in a food processor and grind to a powder. Add remaining ingredients and blend well. Store in a lidded container.

Optional: Add 1/4 cup shredded coconut.