Initially I did not think I want to do a bento since I did not buy much ingredients as it is almost weekend. Normally PiggyBeng will shop on my behalf during weekends as he will cook.

Then I wanted to prepare some meat balls for next week as I will be stuffed with cupcake orders which I know I won’t have time to cook for Darrius. I used to buy economy rice but the food has deteriorated so much and not to mention the sky rocket pricing! Some of these vendors are killing themselves really… they thought they are the only one around so they can charge like king!

Anyhow, since I have some extra lean meat, I decided to make-explore some new ideas….

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This bento contains rice mixed with some Sakura Denbu to get that pinkish color. I wanted to do blue sky actually but I could not get enough of the blue pea flowers so I abandoned the idea. I was contemplating using my Wilton color paste but decided not to… cause I know PiggyBeng will sure to question me why I let Darrius eat so much coloring.

The bottom half is an extra layer which is the stir-fried minced pork. I had some broccoli and cauliflower so I used it to make ‘trees’. The orange bits are carrot cut using a straw which is supposed to be oranges. Tough job!

There are some carrot flowers with some cut French beans as leafs and yellow lunch sheet as centre. I sprinkled some nori flakes at the bottom and some furikake above the trees.

Ok, that’s all for now. I hope to do another bento tomorrow if I have the inspiration when I sleep tonight! Till then, happy bento-ing folks!