Bento Box Resources

Before Anime Club last Friday, we did a little bento box workshop and made some cute food!  Bento is a Japanese box lunch, and there are many different varities.  We did mostly oekakiben ("picture bento"), in which the food is arranged to look like people, animals, plants, etc.  If you want to try this at home, it is really easy.  Just grab a plastic container from the cabinet, use the food you have in the house, and apply your creativity!

You can get this book from the library:

• 501 Bento Box Lunches

You can buy books:

• Yum-Yum Bento Box:  Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches by Crystal Wantanabe and Maki Ogawa
• The Just Bento Cookbook: Everyday Lunches to Go by Makiko Itoh and Makiko Doi
• Kawaii Bento Boxes: Cute and Convenient Japanese Meals on the Go by Joie Staff

And there are tons of great websites:

• Just Bento
• Lunch in a Box
• Bento Box

There's even an iPad app called Bento Master!