New box again...help me I´m addicted!

A few weeks ago I was shopping for japanese groceries at Ja-Mart. i couldn´t resist to browse trough their Ourdoor and Bento section. And there it was: A cute little box with butterflies (I already had the matching foldable fork in red). Unable to convice myself that I already own thousands of bento-boxes, it ended up in my shopping cart ;)

It is pretty small for my on-shift appetite (230 and 160ml said the sticker on the box but I really doubt it...) but I managed to stuff in a lot of delicious things, though:



Upper tier: broccoli, meatballs, grapes, risotto, flower made of carrots and snap peas

Lower tier: more broccoli and carrots, cauliflower, gyoza and dip

(Note: this bento is pretty much the same then the one in my previous post because I did it a day later and still had so much leftovers. Sorry for the late update *g*)

Happy New Year, Happy New Bento!

I´m back. Finally!

A late Happy New Year to everyone (is there anyone out there anymore?). I almost forgot about my blog, but I wanted to go back to bentoing in 2011. I hope I can post some new pictures every week. I will try to bring a bento to every late shift now... (bento in the morning shift never really worked, most time I had to take it home again and eated it for lunch)

The year started slower on work than usual. Maybe some things will  finally change to the better now. It really seems to get less stressy and there is some new staff in the hospital to help us. I appreciate doing "my" work again. The last few months of the last year were horrible because we had to do too much of the doctors´ work for them. But enough about work now, let get started with bento again!

I bought a new cute kitty box and matching resuable chopsticks before christmas to help me keeping my new year´s bento resolution. It has a total capacity of 500ml.

Here is my box for tomorrow:

Upper tier: Meatballs, gyoza, some grapes, gyoza dip in the small box, mini chocolate

Lower tier: Veggie-risotto with some carrot blossoms

Santa´s Little Helper-Game:Summer Edition™

These days we have another little gear swap game on Nekobento.

Due to my summer vacation is scheduled next week I was able to send and recieve mine some days sooner then most of the paticipants.

(It´s strange, I think my blog transformed from a bentoblog to a pakageblog ;))

So here it is:

Contents:

A japanese reciepe book
Geisha chopsticks
Green Tea noodles
Sakura Pocky
Furikake
Some japanese candies
Panda chocolate cookies
Peach chewing gum
Some tiny little floral bowls

Thanks sooooo much. I´m so happy now. I even stopped playing StarCraft for opening and taking pictures of it. BF and I nomed the sweets away while playing another round ;)

Happy mail is happy!

I recieved my strawberry-fukubukuro from Neko-chan:

What was in?

The natural lunchbox with matching bag, belts and chopsticks, some tiny japanese chocolates, egg formers and sausage-cutter in penguin shape (fun fact: I had ordered the same one for my victim in our Santa´s Little Helper-Game:Summer Edition™)

I´m happy I could resist buying this box for so far, because I always wanted to buy one of these...

*bigbighappydance*

Lucky me: 3rd price in Bento-competition!

I feel so happy because the Nekobento- Competition is finally over. I never thought that there was a chance for me because there were so many great other entries. The voting was totally anonymous and we weren´t alloud to post pictures of our bentos somewhere else. In the first round there where over 60 participating bentoers. But after we entered the second round with only 12 competitioners left I was very sure which bento came from which fellow bentoer ;)

Congratulation to Token (1st) and Murasaki (2nd), too! And big thanks to all voters and critiques!

But finally, here is the bento I entered with:

Left: puff pastries filled with veggies in soy sauce, apple bunnies, grape and banana-skewers, meatballs, tomatoes, veggie and shrimp-tempura, cucumber slices, chinese noodles underneath


Right: Chicken karaage with tonkatsu sauce in the penguin, daigaku imo with sesame, more tomatoes, green asparagus, rice and katsudon


There will be pictures of the winner´s gifts, that were sponsored by Neko-chan, when the delivery-boy finally rings my doorbell (I´m a little bit afraid because the pakage was shipped with Hermes, I do not like those unreliable guys, really).