because he loves me

…Lord only knows why. I admit it, I can be a cranky b*tch at times. Thankfully he sees past that (I hope).

My darling ordered my birthday present the other day and because I couldn’t wait (and since he told me and then brought it home!) I am now using it. I asked for a Mr. Bento lunchbox from Zojirushi. Happy days.

I’ve had a mini must-have love affair with bento boxes since my days in Vancouver. Although it is getting easier, they’re still hard to find. So, imagine my happiness when I saw some up on Amazon.com!

There’s a fine art to doing bento properly (hell, I probably just misused the word! Can one bento?) My very primitive and cursory understanding of it is that it’s all in the presentation of the food in small, portable containers. As you can see from Monday’s bento lunch pictured below, I have to work on the presentation. Eh, whatever, right? It all tastes the same in the end.

Clockwise from the top: leftover perogies (with onion, apple, & bacon), salad with dressing (bad bento form!), fresh!! strawberries, butternut squash soup

Of course there’s a whole Mr. Bento community out there. Just to get started try doing a search for bento in Flickr.

So, tell me: what do you pack for lunch and how do you pack it?