Butch Bento

Nongestational queer parent to a second grader. I used to post pictures of food, but I fell out of the habit and want to get back into it. Stay tuned to see if I actually will.

[butchbento]

[foster-the-world]

Healthy Lunch Ideas

Anyone have good healthy lunchbox ideas for camp? We are good on the snacks/chips side but need more healthy options. We can put a little ice pack but otherwise the bag will be in in an air conditioned room for four hours before lunch.

No nuts.

[butchbento]

Crispy chickpeas, pea puffs, pop-roasted pepitas, cucumber with dipping sauce (soy sauce/sesame oil and tzatziki are my kid's two favorites) cream cheese and green olive sandwiches, Marmite and Jarlsberg sandwiches (my kid's favorite), sunbutter and jelly sandwiches, gouda and crackers, leftover scallion pancakes after ordering Chinese food, haha... I'll ponder and see if I can think of any more.

My kid recently picked out a new lunchbox, a red and blue Bentgo Chill. The kid likes it and it's practical, but it's SO UGLY I'm not sure I'll ever be able to bring myself to post pictures of the kid's lunch in it. Alas. 😢

[peachpulpeuse]

recent bentos........... we've got roasted teriyaki salmon onigiri with homemade kabocha tempura, and so on and so forth. i've already written about the fillings of the other ones on here

and the lavish bento spread for me and bae last time when we were going to attend the gay picnic but had to cancel. the dumplings are homemade curried pork! those weird pointy things are my attempt at cutting cute spam fish; that was a true fail

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Bento for the Rainbow Pride Family Picnic today!

Pea shoots, bell pepper, snow peas, tomatoes, cornichons, lemon garlic dressing, Marmite crackers, honey crackers, cauliflower puffs, Parmesan crisps, crispy balsamic beets.

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The kid's school picnic is tomorrow afternoon! I'd love suggestions for easy picnic bento food. I eat everything, but the kid is pretty much pescatarian, and their favorite texture is CRUNCHY.

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Due to thunderstorms that are supposed to hit the city this afternoon, the picnic has been rescheduled for a day when I'm working 8am to 10pm, so I won't be able to go. Huge bummer. :(

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The kid's school picnic is tomorrow afternoon! I'd love suggestions for easy picnic bento food. I eat everything, but the kid is pretty much pescatarian, and their favorite texture is CRUNCHY.

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Sunday morning kitchen sink speed bento for a morning in the playground with friends. Ranch flavored roasted edamame, dried coconut, mozzarella, jarlsberg, pickled green beans, green olives, sesame miso soy sauce dressing, matcha ice cream flavored Oreo, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, croutons, cheddar crisps, balsamic beets, fried onions.

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I was sleepy and running a little late this morning, so the bento wound up being a bit of a slapdash affair. Spiced carrots from the tacos my wife made last night, balsamic mozzarella pearls, snow peas, sesame star crackers, plus crispy seaweed, an apple, and the prepackaged snacks mentioned in the previous post.

And now I'm eating an eggancheezonnaroll and drinking Bodega coffee like a proper New Yorker while waiting for the rest of the troop to arrive.

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My kid's secular co-ed scouting troop is going on a hike from the old growth forest in Manhattan over a bridge to an unspecified forested area in the Bronx tomorrow! The kid and I are both very excited. I just went out and bought some pre-packaged snacks, like salmon jerky and coconut-almond bars and cauliflower puffs, but I kinda wanna make a bento too! Anyone got any hiking-friendly bento ideas? If so, lay 'em on me!

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First try at putting a glass container inside my bento, because I've always been too afraid of getting broken glass in my work bag to bring an unprotected glass container by itself, but I really don't like microwaving plastic, so I had been resigning myself to cold meals, which is a bummer, especially on a rainy day like today. Chicken mandu, spicy soy sesame ponzu sauce, sauteed bok choy with garlic, black olives, Taki, coconut, chickpeas, lychee jelly, baby carrots.

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Here it is. An actual work bento. Still trying to figure out how to have a variety of textures without getting my crunchy stuff soggy. It's a work in progress. Jarlsberg and Marmite sandwich, fresh coconut with pepitas and dried cherries, lychee jelly, Parmesan and cheddar crisps, barbeque protein puffs, balsamic beet crisps, yellow bell pepper, pistachios and peanuts.

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I didn't make a bento today, because my cat is sick and my executive function is absolutely shot, but Google Photo Memories just served me up this bento from a long time ago, and I think it's kinda pretty, if a bit bizarre. Cod roe deviled eggs with thyme! Physalis! Pickleweed! Herb butter! Licorice allsorts! Those huge green Cerignola olives! I'm not sure what-all else is in there, but dang, my hobby used to be buying weird produce, and I have to admit I kind of miss it.

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Today I'm working at home for two hours, going downtown and working onsite for an hour and a half, then coming home and working at home for 7 more hours (my workday today starts at 7am and ends at 11pm, yawn, though fortunately I have some breaks), so today is not a bento day. I'm thinking frozen pizza for lunch, or something of the sort. But I'm hoping to start rekindling my lunch bento habit starting next week.

[julieterbang]

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[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #320: Bento Crow

From Shadowsantos on Redbubble!

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Gonna post this quickly to break the seal, though I think kid lunches are gonna hopefully be in the minority on this new iteration of the blog, because to be honest, by the kid's own request, they're very samey. And what I really need to do is to make my own lunches, because I'm currently spending far too much money on them, and that needs to stop. So my goal is to make my own lunch more often and to post pictures of it here. The kid's lunch might occasionally make an appearance, but I've been packing those every morning since kindergarten (the kid's currently in second grade), so there remains very little excitement to be found there.

Baby carrots, crispy beets, pop-roasted pumpkin seeds, cinnamon toast as a special treat to celebrate the end of a week of standardized tests, plus cheese crackers, granola bar, and teriyaki seaweed for snack (not pictured).

[peachpulpeuse]

today's bento, starting at lower right and going clockwise:

ham scraps, from cutting out ham flowers for @bakapikananoda's bento

storebought tsukemono: sakurazuke (pink pickled daikon), kombu, lotus root

miso-marinated hardboiled egg (new recipe!)

rice from special new rice cooker (too mushy, may have used too much water)

cucumber sesame salad

roasted sweet potato and broccoli with miso-sesame dressing

not pictured other snacks: diced mango and corn turtle chips. the whole bento plus wifey's took about 10 minutes to assemble in the morning, which included packing the rice, cutting the ham, and putting everything in the box. no cooking on the morning of, which to me is the most insane and impractical part of normal japanese mom bento-making

critiques: the rice + egg was too tall and I had to smash it to close the lid, ruining the effect; I couldn't fit a fruit or dessert into the box bc it was full of veggies, which makes me sad; the ham/pickle/egg situation could be cuter and better-arranged; the silicone cup holding the cucumber salad leaves a little too much space on either side, I need a more circular one to fit in there nicely for more efficient use of space; the dressing on the veggies got all over the bottom of the upper tray and I had to lick it off