Looking at some japanese bento blogs, I see that the decorative ones tend to have fairly same-y items. I guess that makes it easier to construct and focus in a good-looking ‘feature’. I do like the simplicity of some of them prior to decorating, so I figured it won’t be hard to establish a stash that is also long-lived and can be rotated.
I’ve been favouring pickled chillis – it really adds more punch to sometimes plain items. Apart from steaming the broccoli, all there needs to be cooked was the hamburgers (a freezer stash item.) So fast!
Chilli Hamburger
Lunch contents: rice, black and white toasted sesame seeds, broccoli, carrot ‘flowers’, pickled chillis, hamburgers with tomato sauce, grape tomato, crabsticks.
