Back to School Bento - New Way to Pack a Lunch
Filed under: Video, Family Finances, Food & Drink, Back to School
What's smaller than a bread box, easy on the environment, and cool enough for your kindergartner, fifth grader and high school student? That would be a bento box.
Bento -- a single-portion meal packed into a re-usable box, are as common as our brown bags in Japan. Traditionally they're filled with rice balls (o-nigiri), bits of fish or tofu, and some pickled or grilled vegetables. But with their growing popularity in the west, intrepid lunch-packers are learning that just about anything fits into a bento.
Of course, you're free to turn your kids onto o-nigiri (triangle-shaped rice balls with a bit of fish or pickled plumb tucked in the middle). They're the Japanese equivalent of a PB&J. Nutritious, delicious ... and way more healthy than that PB&J.
Interested in learning more? Here's a super-cool site featuring a wide-variety of bento boxes. And the go-to site for learning how to fill them? Lunchinabox.net, of course. Plug in your rice cooker and get started on the newest way to pack a back-to-school lunch.
Bento -- a single-portion meal packed into a re-usable box, are as common as our brown bags in Japan. Traditionally they're filled with rice balls (o-nigiri), bits of fish or tofu, and some pickled or grilled vegetables. But with their growing popularity in the west, intrepid lunch-packers are learning that just about anything fits into a bento.
Of course, you're free to turn your kids onto o-nigiri (triangle-shaped rice balls with a bit of fish or pickled plumb tucked in the middle). They're the Japanese equivalent of a PB&J. Nutritious, delicious ... and way more healthy than that PB&J.
Interested in learning more? Here's a super-cool site featuring a wide-variety of bento boxes. And the go-to site for learning how to fill them? Lunchinabox.net, of course. Plug in your rice cooker and get started on the newest way to pack a back-to-school lunch.
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8-24-2010 @ 1:44PM
Tracey said...
A good idea, except they are plastic. So you're sending your kid's lunch to school with them where BPA and other cancer-causing toxins are slowly leaching into your kids food, slowly poisoning them. I suggest the Indian stainless-steel tiffens, a multi-compartment, stackable container.
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