My First (and probably last) Bento

Bento is a Japanese way of arranging food in an artistic manner, sometimes incorporating popular characters.

Want to be amazed (and feel completely inadequate)?  Do a Google image search for bento.  It's ridiculous.

This was my first attempt at bento.  An "Angry Birds" meal for Micah (and one for Liliana so she wouldn't feel left out.)  It was inspired from the mama at Another Lunch (but hers is so way better!)

Pigs, birds, you get the idea.  I just realized looking at this pict. that one of the pigs lost an eyeball from the walk from the kitchen to the table.  How on earth are you supposed to send this to school?!?!

Micah knew I was working on a surprise in the kitchen and kept trying to peek in.  Here's his face when he finally got to see what it was.

He was pretty stoked!  Liliana liked hers as well!

They were supposed to be for lunch the following day, but the Nori that I used for all the details has a fishy aroma and I'm really sensitive to that...so I let the kids have them for bedtime snack instead.

It was a fun creative outlet for the evening, but I could not see myself going through all of that work every day for lunches.  Guess my kids will have to settle for sandwiches cut out with a cookie cutter.  ;-)