Harry's Bento
The elementary school puts aside several days a year on which the kids have to bring their own lunches. Ideally they are supposed to make them themselves but it's an idea that drives me mad. It supposes that the mothers are all stay at home super-housewives who have time in the morning to lovingly give their kids a detailed nutrition lesson before sending their little darlings off. Seeing as it's a farming community, all it really does is piss off 75 mothers who are busy enough....
Harry sliced the cucumbers and put the stuff in the box. Hope that counts as "making his own lunch" because it's all I was willing to waste time over on a working morning!
The menu - top layer: pumpkin mashed with butter and pepper, raw cucumbers and carrots, rice. Bottom layer: raw carrot and cucumber rings (Harry noticed that they'd fit together so he stuffed all the leftovers in! They did look pretty.) Small slice of grilled salmon, apple wedge, sausage, and frozen squid made for bentos. Too much food, he couldn't eat it all, and this was Tuesday. He STILL hasn't remembered to bring the box back. GRRRRRRRRRR!
2 comments:
What a beautiful looking obento! That pumpkin with butter and pepper sounds yumm! : )
And I think you're right, the farming mother's are probably busy enough doing all they have to do. And the same with the working mom's. : ) It sure was a great and yummy looking obento!. : )
eep! That box is going to be stinky!
Do you get hassled for the raw veg? Baachan can't believe it's edible. I'm reminded of medieval Europeans who were certain raw fruit was inedible.
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