Lunch 06/05/09

Contents: Blueberry Waffle; Round tater-tots; ham; cheese; green apples; crackers; a butterfinger candybar; packet of ketchup (for the tater tots); nori (decoration)

Comments: Simple and delicious. :P Not entirely healthy (when am I ever? I'm horrible. x.x; ) but yummy. While I was making it, my sister walked into the kitchen and insisted upon moving every single thing I had set in there...so I had to rearrange it...twice.

Quick & Dirty Lunch (05/28/09)

Left: Bologna; Pineapple Pizza (from Pizza Hut)

Right: Green Apple wedges

Comments: Very quick. Haha I was incredibly tired and my dad said "WE HAVE NO MORE SANDWICH BREAD!" So I made my own lunch out of leftovers and random stuff I found in the fridge. Not too healthy...

State Testing Lunch (Idk What Day!)

Before anything, I appologize for not updating at all lately. School has been getting tougher as the year goes on (we get out June 18th!), and I haven't even been making many bentos at all lately!

This is a bento I made back when we were still doing state testing! I can't even remember what the actual date I made it was...

Left: Checkered Apples & Apples shaped like animals; grapes

Right: Bologna & Cheese Sandwich; Red Apple; Nori decorations; Chocolate cupcake

Comments: Well, I made this for testing. The "A" and the "1" were to encourage me to try my best. xD The chocolate cupcake did the same. Teehee. Picture quality is horrible...I appologize. :)

btw, the food picks are actually candles with the wicks cut off. :P

Lunch 4/27/09

Top: Watermelon and green apple

Bottom: Scrambled eggs; chicken; leftover rice-a-roni (idk what flavour xD; )

Comments: About half of this is leftovers from my dinner. :] School testing is starting soon so I'll have to start packing this stuff healthier...and getting my dad to buy things I want at the store x.x;

Lazy Lunch 4/22/09

Contents: Grapes; pb&j sandwich; bologna; string cheese (mozerella! :P )

Comments: Urgghh it's so hot here in California! We don't even have AC in my house so it makes me feel tired and lazy especially after coming home from school...*stops whining* hehe So yeah I made this really quick and it wasn't cute enough so I added a random bologna-octopus-squid...thing. XD and fish and star-shaped sandwiches!

Lunch 4/21

Top: Omelette; rice; bologna & cheese; carrots

Bottom: Apples; grapes; a piece of carrot (lol)

Comments: I appologize for the date stamp!! (and yes, I took this picture a day before I'm gonna eat the food...) Also, I just love my new star cutters... XD;

Lunch/Snacks (for 3) 4/19/09

Contents: fried rice; green apples; turkey & cheese sandwiches; peanut butter; m&ms; jolly ranchers; strawberry; grapes; soy sauce (in the bottle)

Comments: Before anything, I want you to know that this was not packed JUST for me. XD; I plan on sharing it with some friends at a chalk art contest in Belmont Shores tomorrow (I packed this early so I wouldn't have to wake up crazy early.) I also appologize that the quality in these pictures isn't too great...I had to take them with my DSi camera because my mom took her camera with her to my sister's softball games...

The faces on the apple stars are made with nori, which I dont actually plan on eating because I don't like the taste of it (especially on apples o.o; )but it's cute anyway. I like the fried rice cuz it has carrot stars that I made! XD;

Lunch 4/10

Contents: Bananas, strawberries, bologna & cheese sandwiches

Comments: Well this took about three minutes. Possibly less. I was tired when I made it but I still wanted something slightly easter-themed. XD This is the last of the easter-themed bentos week! teehee...

It was packed in this (which I bought for a dollar at a yard sale):

Lunch 4/9

Top: Strawberries; carrots; yellow apples; cheez-its (under the strawberries & tinfoil)

Bottom: Omelette (under the rice); rice; carrots; bologna & cheese sandwich

Comments: It makes me smile. xD When I made the omelette my sister walked by and said "...oh my gosh it's a baby omelette!" hahaha

Have you noticed the Easter theme by now? It's this Sunday! :]

Lunch 4/8 (Shugo Chara!)

Top: Hardboiled egg; chicken-flavoured ramen; salt (in the bottle)

Bottom: Chocolate pudding + sprinkles; green apples; bologna; sharp cheddar cheese

Comments: I wanted a "Shugo Chara!" (it's an anime) themed bento, so I made one! The apples have clovers cut into them. The pudding had spade-shapes in the sprinkles. I messed up on painting the eggs, but they were still yum :]

One of the teachers at my school was totally amazed, though :D

Lunch 4/6

Left: Hardboiled eggs; chicken-flavoured ramen; salt (in the bunny bottle)

Right: Green apples; strawberries; sugar (in the bear bottle)

Comments: Teehee these were so fun to make. The ramen was leftover from my dinner so I decided to stick it in there. And then the eggs were "painted" with a little bit of food colouring and a (new and clean) paint brush! It was my mom's idea to paint them like that and I think it's adorable, hehe!

I also used my mom's digital camera (instead of my cell phone camera) to take this one's picture...I think I'll be doing that more often because it comes out a LOT prettier. :]

(Not Lunch) 4/4

Left: Hard-boiled eggs; rice; octodog; strawberry

Right: Octodog; rice; strawberry

Comment: So this wasn't lunch! My little cousin and her friend were sleeping over at my house and they were bored and asked me to show them some random bento stuff. So I taught them how to hardboil eggs, how to cut strawberries into shapes, how to make octodogs, and how to use a rice cooker. They wanted their rice to be green. And then they decided to roll the rice into make-shift onigiri. Oh my, hahaa!

Lunch 3/30

Left: Cheez-its; hotdogs

Right: pbj sandwich; bananas; strawberries

Comments: Omnomnom! I loves cheez-its, they are addictive! I like the colours of this for some reason...:]

Unfortunately I made this for a day I didn't go to school and I was sick so I didn't want to eat it. I brought it the next day (it had been in the fridge the whole time) and all of the stuff on the right had gone bad. :[ oh well. You make mistakes and then you learn. XD

Lunch 3/24

Left: Cream cheese & cucumber sandwich; carrots

Right: Hotdogs; green apple

Comments: So boring. But yummy. I have to say, I make myself like eating carrots better when I cut them up and stick toothpicks through them. XD And I love cold hotdogs and apples. I wish I were more original and had a bigger variety of food in my lunches every day...

Lunch 3/22

Before I post about this day's lunch, I just want to appologize for not updating in, well, forever! I've been really busy with school and I haven't even been able to get myself to make a bento every day, so I haven't been too enthusiastic about saying so on this blog. XD; But now I am! And now that I have that out of the way *sighs* here's the bento I made for lunch on March 22nd!

In this bento: Hotdogs, pbj sandwich, chocolate pudding, and green apple.

Comments: Well it's a VERY simple, not very cute, and relatively unhealthy bento for today...xD; But it was yummy :]

Lunch 3/19

Left: White pasta shells

Right: Jello, carrots, bananas, turkey and cheese wraps

Comments: Mmm, leftovers! Hehe yeah the pasta shells were what I had left over from my dinner and they were actually really good cold! ...I accidently put spicy cheese in the turkey wraps so I only ate one of them because I'm bad with spicy foods... o.o;

Lunch 3/18

Left: PBJ sandwich, carrots

Right: Peanut butter, bananas, apples

Comments: Uber simple as always! Teehee my friends thought the apples were adorable. And I love peanut butter. I REALLY do.

Lunch 3/17 (St. Patrick's Day!)

Left: Green-coloured peach yogurt w/ sprinkles, carrots and peas stacked on toothpicks, and half a hotdog made like a heart (:3)

Right: PB&J Sandwich w/ green sprinkles, more carrots

Comments: Omg this was fun! Hehe it was St. Patrick's Day today so I tried to scrape together a few things that were green...but we didn't have much that was naturally green! :[ So I'm a little unhealthy with the sprinkles, but the yogurt is nonfat and I'm totally counting it as fruit cuz it's peach-flavoured >>;;

Lunch 3/16

Left: Mint chocolate chip cookie!


Middle: Rolled bologna, red jello, pb&j sandwich shaped like a bunny


Right: Bunny-shaped baby carrot sticks, peanut butter, bananas (the pink stuff on the bananas is frosting. I'm very unhealthy. lol)


Comments: Well I also put in a picture of how I wrap my lunches in the furoshiki my sister bought me while she was in Japan! This lunch was incredibly delicious! hehe but I ended up sharing the cookie with three of my friends because I was already full from everything else...

Lunch 3/15

Left: Ketchup & rice onigiri, orange wedge, red jello, and bologna

Right: More onigiri and bologna, cucumber and cream cheese "salad"

Comments: Well it looks pretty plain and boring to me...haha. It was uber quick made out of some left over rice (I love rice with ketchup. Is that weird?). Also, I love jello and bologna. You'll probably see those often!

Welcome to Simple Bentos (From a Picky Eater)!

Hey there! I'm pretty entertained that you somehow stumbled upon my little blog, hehe!

I'm a 17 year old chick from California and I love making bentos! I bring them with me to high school every day and my friends think that it's pretty unique! :] The only problem? I'm a VERY picky eater and I pretty much really suck at cooking. Many of the things in my bentos are super simple things that even little kids can make on their own (in fact, my 9 year old brother has taught me some things. XD)! I generally just use whatever I can find in my kitchen (which is rarely stocked with normal bento stuff)! *giggles*

So enjoy this, maybe it'll give you a little inspiration, or maybe you can give me some tips!

-Karli