{"id":270,"date":"2009-09-04T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T04:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-09-05T00:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T07:37:48","slug":"practice-bento-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Practice Bento #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blurry Picture today.\u00c2\u00a0 After snapping the photo (and bento in process of being devoured)\u00c2\u00a0I discovered that the camera that I’ve been using for oh, I don’t know, but years anyway, has a focus setting for close ups.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll try that for the next one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Jicama, carrots and celery.\u00c2\u00a0 Honeydew and mango stars.\u00c2\u00a0 Cream cheese and jam on whole wheat flatout rolls. I ended up having to give him a little bit of dip (duh!) so next time I’d likely leave out the celery so a dip cup would fit.\u00c2\u00a0 As much as I like jicama, I’d never actually given it to the kidlet.\u00c2\u00a0 He ate it all up.<\/p>\n

What I learned:\u00c2\u00a0 Jam rolls are disasterously messy. I may need an oshibori container for a damp cloth!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is also a smaller box than I’ve been using (460ml instead of 650).\u00c2\u00a0 This size is what is recommended for the 3-5 year old, but my 5 year old has quite a healthy appetite.\u00c2\u00a0 He is used to eating a small snack between breakfast and lunch, and I’m guessing they don’t provide that in Kindergarten, so I’m worried he will be starving by lunch.<\/p>\n

I’m having trouble controlling my bento spending habit.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have the money to spare.\u00c2\u00a0 But I keep getting sucked into the cute things.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially adorable are the various soy sauce bottles.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t hold much; basically a single serving of soy sauce or vinegar, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Since the traditional japanese bento will have rice, etc, I guess soy sauce containers make sense.\u00c2\u00a0 However,\u00c2\u00a0we aren’t eating traditional food in ours — just american style lunches, packed in the bento style.\u00c2\u00a0 Soy sauce bottles are\u00c2\u00a0nearly useless to us (He\u00c2\u00a0does like lemon pepper as a\u00c2\u00a0seasoning, and I can put that in them, carefully.\u00c2\u00a0 They make specific containers for shaking seasonings though). \u00c2\u00a0But I have like 50 of them in from plain to some\u00c2\u00a0little animal lids and others in cute little shapes.\u00c2\u00a0 They are usually very inexpensive, so its easy to justify to myself, but cheap doesn’t really matter if it won’t even be used!\u00c2\u00a0 So I keep finding myself having to exert true willpower not to buy any more soy sauce bottles (or any other bento accessory for that matter).\u00c2\u00a0 Although I will admit that if these little ribbon, crown and hat picks <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0were ever back in stock, I’d snap them up in a heart beat.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve seen folks using them in thier bentos and they are ridicuously adorable stuck in the top of an egg with\u00c2\u00a0a smily face, and so on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blurry Picture today.\u00c2\u00a0 After snapping the photo (and bento in process of being devoured)\u00c2\u00a0I discovered that the camera that I’ve been using for oh, I don’t know, but years anyway, has a focus setting for close ups.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll try that for the next one \ud83d\ude09 Jicama, carrots and celery.\u00c2\u00a0 Honeydew and mango stars.\u00c2\u00a0 Cream cheese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}