Meatball and omelette bento, originally uploaded by Bento Business.

I probably wasted 2 hours online today reading everything I could find about bento boxes. I’d found a nice little article in the New York Times, “Bento Boxes Win Lunch Fans,” and it was literally all I could do to contain myself (ha!) from spending $200 ordering all the fun little accouterments I’d need to make all our meals bento meals.

Not that we bring our lunch anywhere. Instead, I’m having visions of wee little dinners with cute little flower carrots, plastic giraffe skewed cubes (of what tba), and pretty little rice mounds in the shape of butterflies, stars, and – of course – Texas. (Where does one find a wee little Texas?)

AND the piece de resistance for all this madness? Bentos are nice little portion control devices. Be still my heart.

Links:
MomoCon Bento 2 – Look at that awesome sun!
“Bento” search on Flickr

Ya’ll know what self control it takes for me to not go buy all kinds of crap to eat bento style for the next month? HUGE amounts. Picture it: Bento breakfast! Bento dinner!

Bento Thanksgiving!

You know there’s more coming. I’m so excited. (Bento kitty cat dinners!)

Edited to add a few more links and update in WordPress (since I posted this from Flickr):
I love Obento – a nice little website that ships bento supplies from the U.S. I suspect they’ll have an order from us (a small little order) by the tomorrow. Also, they’ve got me thinking about how I can reappropriate things I already have in the kitchen to bento supplies. Mainly stuff like cookie cutters and paper cupcake cups.

Also, check out this nice little recipe for Curried Lentil Risotto.

Smiley bento, originally uploaded by luckysundae.

It even has green hair!

Birdy Bento, originally uploaded by Look at my photos.

Look how cute!