The oddest thing happened while I was taking pictures of todays box.  Of course, I didn’t discover it until after the kidlet left with his lunch — but for some reason, even though I am SURE that I centered all my pictures, they are showing up as half a photo, sliced down the center.  I took 6 and only one of them shows the whole bento.   It’s not a great picture, and is also off center, but its what I have to work with today.  Strange.

The words to learn to read and write this week are “the” and “little” so I present “The Little Red Hen” except I forgot to put in “the” in the rush this morning ;)  Regardless, he can read and write both already, but I’m planning on doing the words of the week every week.  Eventually we’ll get to one he doesn’t know!

The hen is made from an egg sheet, which I colored with food coloring before cooking.  I am really not sure he will eat it (he has refused to eat a number of colored items, along with nori, kamaboko, seeds, okra, and star fruit – its getting harder to make cute theme bento as he eliminates colorful ingredients!), so I built her on a slice of cheese that he can just lift away.

The eggsheet and cheese accent hen is on an egg salad sandwich.  We also have a checkered apple, plum, blueberries and a few pomegranite seeds, broccoli, radish, multi-color heirloom baby tomatoes and corn in the faux eggshell cup.

Time taken: 45 mintues total between last night prep (cooking the egg, steaming broccoli, etc) and this mornings assembly.

Posted by Kristen in Bento