Running out of ideas

This was lunch for Zenon for the 5th day of school, which was just last Week, Friday. I am almost out of ideas and without the right tools to make bento lunches, it's pretty hard to do, as the Japanese would say, "Mendoksai!", too much work!

So last Friday I made him PB&J and Nutella bites. Zenon liked them so, yay me!

For this week though, I am on vacation from making lunches. So last Monday for Zenon's lunch, after a year of asking for Lunchables for lunch, I finally got him one.

To have him experience the lunch line at school, I gave him money for lunch yesterday.

After this week, after all my reports are done, I can go back to making bento. :)

 

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Filipino Adobo - Bento style

Zenon loved the adobo I made one night so I asked if he wanted to have it for lunch the next day. He said yes so I packed his adobo lunch and couldn't quite figure out how to make it interesting.

I started thinking about what other food adobo is usually served with - sometimes hard boiled eggs are added, or potatoes or both, and sometimes scrambled eggs is what others prefer to eat it with. I personally love adobo with rice for breakfast served with scrambled egg (yes, Filipinos love rice that much, we have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner!).

So I did my research and found a tutorial on YouTube for scrambled eggs styled into Minions! :)

Itadakimasu! Kain na!

 

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The Bento Experiment

Having gone to Japan many, many years ago I started obsessing about the beautifully prepared, craftily put together and wonderfully delicious bento boxes. I was a freshman in high school when I was there and went to a local high school for about 8 months. My mother who's very artistic made me a couple of bentos then.

One of the things on my list to do for Zenon is to show him the world. Since I can't really take him to Japan right now because I believe that would a trip for a more mature Zenon, I will introduce him to Japanese culture the way I know how. He's already obsessed with Pokemon, he should get to know more about the country it originated from.

Day 1: Pikachu bento - I unfortunately didn't realize until very late that I forgot to get Nori sheets so I had to use soy sauce to paint Pikachu's face, dotting the rice with the tip of a straw that I cut so it had a pointy end then dipped in soy sauce.

 

Day 2 - CheeseBEARger

 

So far we're only on the second day of school and we got the Nori sheets today and it makes such a huge difference having it!

 

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