Saturday, July 31, 2010

Bento Challenge

A few weeks ago The Boy and I were "ooooh" and "aaahh"-ing over the gazillions of seriously cute and impressive Japanese inspired Bento lunch boxes on Flickr.





I soon became quite smitten with the idea of trying some out - however this idea was quickly dismissed due to the fact that I am rather completely incapable of getting out of bed any more than 30 minutes before I need to be out the door and on my way to work.  I do love my bed and the 5-10 minutes extra 'snooze' time is so delicious, right? But I am sometimes stressed out and rush around like a headless chook in those wee hours of the morning, resulting in breakfast getting eaten (and sometimes spilled) in the car.

I would like a reason to get up earlier in the morning - just to see what it feels like! So ... I have set myself a challenge, a Bento Challenge, much to The Boy's delight (you see it's unheard of that I make his lunch, I am a terrible housewife I know!), and will be blogging my daily creations.

Bento Challenge Rules (I love rules!)

1) Create a Bento lunch for The Boy and myself for 10 working days
2) Wake up at 6:30am (I normally arise at 7). This should give me ~30 minutes of prep/cooking time. I think it will be enough, depending on the difficulty of the lunch.
3) Each Bento lunch must have some cute factor, and no I will not be attempting to re-create Yoshi up there
4) Begin Mon 9th and end Fri 20th August

I'm giving myself a week to get prepared as I have a monster list of ingredients to collect, some special Bento making equipment to purchase, a book to buy from Borders tomorrow, pluuuus I sorta need to learn how to cook sticky Japanese short grain rice. crap.

I might add that the whole early morning thing might quash my present high hopes of this challenge working at all ... I will however try super hard to prevent a situation from occurring where The Boy ends up with a Vegemite sandwich wrapped in Glad Wrap with a smiley faced rabbit written on top with a Sharpie. 


I' will be posting my finds during the week :)


ps: If you have made Bento before I would love any suggestions or recipes.

6 comments:

  1. start basic and work your way up!
    I'm still a learner after a year bento-ing (^_^)

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  2. I was *obsessed* with making bento lunches before the kids came along! I had a little egg mould - you press a peeled boiled egg into it and it moulds the egg into a hello Kitty Shape - and loads of little containers for things. I used to visit a site that had little 3 min video tutorials on how to perfect all the techniques used to make bento food so cute. I will search the scary recesses of my mind to dredge that URL up if I can.

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  3. Sounds like a wonderful challenge - good luck!

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  4. I remembered! I cannot believe it! Go to http://bentotv.com/archives.html and check out all the super cute videos this girl has made.

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  5. Wowee I can't wait to see how you go with this super challenge!
    I think I'd be too scared to eat my lunch if it looked so darn cute.

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  6. PASTALLY and KITTENS and CHICKS and MIAST went with BALDWIN in FREAKSB.
    And so did PIA with the TOW- TORONTO in CHUMUN and now CONDOLEEZA RICE got nowhere to go.
    And that's with KARL ROVE.
    And there goes RIZAFF with EFFICOG!
    LONNIE went with " GEDIANNE".
    And SOGERE hit GERRIZZO and ORGICO and STAN and now PERTH MARKETPLACE got a DANA- ROKST " in jam".

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