Crazy bento's!
 

My friend sent me pictures of all these bentos and I thought,
WOW... these people have alot of time on their hands xD jay/kay
i thought it was cool. too pretty to eat though!

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Oh, how cute! Thanks for sharing. I saw a book a book on how to do these in Barnes and Noble the other day.

These aren`t crazy - they`re *typical*. Most moms try to make things like this for their kids in school - mostly kindergarten, but occasionally for elementary school events too.

You sort of get judged on how nice the bento looks.

-I have a kid starting kindergarten in April... And I have been gathering the little things you need to make the things in some of these. There are egg shapers, shaped onigiri pressers, nori punch cutters, sausage cutters, etc etc etc.

With all the tools, it doesn`t take *nearly* as long as it looks like it would. Even now, with little experience, I can whip one of these up in about 10 minutes.

^ really? o_O i dont know... molding chicken to look like MUSHROOMS
seems kind of time consuming...

anyway, lucky kids...
when i was a kid i had a brown paper bag, with a ziplock bag of chips
and a ham and cheese sandwich wrapped in foil. lol
then in 3rd grade i upgraded to a Sailor Moon lunchbox.
oh the joys of youth.

Mum used to prepare these artistic lunches for me when I attended kindergarten in Japan. The good ol' days, I vividly remember the rabbit-shaped apple pieces :)

How cute, must have been a lot of work there....

I wish I could make such nice bento boxes. :)

Man all that food looks so good :lol: The boxes are cute too!

:marusmile: I want to make these for my boyfriend ^_^ heeheeheeee octopus weiners

Chicken? Mushrooms?? Huh?

The only "mushroom" shaped things I see up there are chocolate snacks that someone just dumped out of their box. Those aren`t exactly home made. You can buy them literally *anywhere*, for around 100 yen a box.