Our bento lunches consisted of:

• Fried rice (with turkey SPAM cubes, green beans, baby corn, onion, garlic and egg, flavoured with Tamari and white pepper, just like the soba noodles we had the previous week)
• Oven-baked butternut pumpkin.
• Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, red capsicum, green beans and steamed broccoli.
• In Jac’s bento – sliced sirloin steak topped with mushroom sauce. In my bento – mushroom sauce (no steak – having almost “recovered” from eating steak recently, there’s no way I was game to repeat the performance so soon!).
• In my bento: corn on the cob.

I also packed us some cubes of fresh papaya and watermelon.

I usually pack my lunch in the red bento box and Jac’s in the yellow because the yellow bento box is microwavable; Jac prefers to microwave the dishes that are usually eaten hot, while I am quite happy eating most dishes cold. I do have other microwavable bento boxes on the way though. In fact, I have more new bento boxes and accessories coming up soon – it’s going to be so cool! As I say to Jac, I want to have a good range of bento boxes and accessories to choose from whenever I’m planning and packing our lunches. I’m not ashamed to say it’s all part of the pleasure for me. :)

The note I put in Jac’s bento box said: “Guess what? I won a $100 voucher for a restaurant on the radio this morning! :-D See inside for details…”