Weekend Work Bento

Little insulated zip-up bento bag

My future-husband likes to work 6 days a week. During the regular week, he usually makes his own lunch at work. He has this tendency not to give himself enough time when getting ready in the morning and never has enough time to make a lunch. On Saturdays, this problem is compounded. His desire to sleep in because its a weekend (and he doesn't have to be to this job until an hour later than his real job) fights his common sense that it is time to get up (also my known as my voice repeating that fact periodically during the span of about an hour while he continually hits the snooze button)... Needless to say, this predicament usually results in him not only not having time to eat breakfast, but also not having a lunch, which means he's buying 1-2 meals at this weekend job every week! To combat this, I made him a tasty bento, and also pushed him to eat a quick breakfast this morning.
Here's today's bento.

Today I used two small one tier bento boxes with the Sanrio Shinkansen theme (for those of you who do not know, a Shinkansen is a Japanese bullet train, which is a high-speed train). The larger, train-shaped bento contains the main meal and the smaller clear one contains a snack/dessert. I also included chopsticks and a fork.

In the larger box, I filled it with a stir-fry with wild rice, tomatoes and an artichoke heart, as well as some octopus smokies (see yesterday's bento for instructions on these!).

 In this smaller bento, I included some dried apple slices, a few chocolate truffles and some almonds.

Hopefully he will find this bento tasty and filling! That's all for today, until next time, happy munching!