April 15, 2007
Boy Bento!
Alan plays in a long term D&D campaign on Sunday afternoon/evening. Since they start pretty early he usually has to bring dinner. Today I made up a bento for him. I think I did pretty well considering. He took some other snacks along just in case as well.
The brown rice balls didn't really work. They look nice, but they wouldn't stay together very well. I only barely got them into the box with out them falling apart. The white thing on the top is a molded hard boiled egg and the pastries are mushroom turnovers from Trader Joe's. They're quite tasty. I threw in a few grape tomatoes for color, but I expect Alan won't eat them since he's not a huge fan of tomatoes.
The whole box came out to almost exactly nine Weight Watchers points. It's a little more than I would normally have in one meal, but hopefully it will be about the right size for him. :)
Update: Alan wanted to note that one of the rice balls held together and the other did not. I'm not entirely sure why. My best guess right now is that the better one was more heavily compressed. I'll have to try to be more consistent in how much I put in the mold and see if that helps.
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