hapa bento

Did you ask for more chicken tsukune? 

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Saba Man fields comments and questions about his bentos daily so he asked me to pack an extra large bento so he could share it with co-workers.  I honored his kind gesture with this creation.

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Today’s featured bento shows off the bright and colorful chard that I bought from the farmers market way over in Sequim, Wa.

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Today’s back-to-school bento contains items that are near-and-dear to my heart.  When I was a kid,  we called our packed lunches, “home-lunch”!  

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This month’s theme?  What else can be but “Back-to-School”!  But don’t worry if you don’t have school-aged children…because your entry just needs to meet the theme  if not the purpose.  And of course… a bonafide,  school-bound, “P,B and J” bento is perfectly acceptable !

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I don’t create many cute bento box lunches, but if I had a little tyke, I’d probably pack a school lunch like this one!

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Today’s Back-to-School bento features a “no nonsense” approach to packing your child’s lunch.  No cuteness allowed?  No time to stock your “bento-stash”?  This bento style may help you.

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The first thing you’ll notice about the food at “Bobby’s Hawaiian Style Restaurant” is the lack of greens!  Unless of course you order the lau lau!   But I’m not complaining…it’s the nature of Hawaiian-style food and it’s delicious!  

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Taking a pause between my “back-to-school” bentos…here’s an in-flight lunch that I packed for a departing house guest using produce we found while sightseeing!

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A quick post for a speedy bento; assembled with various leftovers!

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