Shopping! September 7, 2006

Yep, it’s my only day off in a week, and how do I spend it? Shopping, ofcourse! Lolz. Well, not really since we’re actually still poor. Not broke anymore, but not quite rich just yet. Anyway, I dropped by a different J-grocery in our area a couple of hours ago, and lucky me, today was the last day of a sale where everything was priced at 50 pesos~! They weren’t about to expire either. The owner simply thought that it was about time for a sale. Hehehe…

I bought four things that I can’t wait to eat! They’re mostly the stick-in-the-microwave-and-serve variety, but they’re still yummy! One of them is a pack of Okonomiyaki furikake, and though I have no intention of using it on okonomiyaki since I have no room to cook one in, I do have different ideas on how to use it though, so watch out for it. I’m just happy because the stuff that I got normally cost around 120 pesos each at the J-grocery we normally go to.

And curry! We have curry!

Whee!!

Doggie-bento! August 31, 2006

*delurking*

Been busy lately. Been making bentos but haven’t really managed to take snapshots. BUT… I just HAD to share my current favorite box…

How much is that doggie in the window..?

Results of the shopping trip June 3, 2006

Well, as stated in a former post, I went shopping for bento paraphernalia today. It was a pretty good haul, considering the tight budget, and I walked away happy. My one gripe is that I forgot to buy sauce containers and those paper cup-thingies and separators. Guess that’ll have to wait for another day. Hehe…

And, here’s the swag!

as Shown and numbered in this pic:
1 – lime green bento box with 2 partitions
2 – red bento box with black interior and removable dividers
3 – set of 3 mini-tupperware cases in blue, pink and white (for deserts)
4 – hobby box for storing bento supplies when not in use
5 – Urara bento box (red Usagi)
6 – Urara bento box (tan Sakura)
7 – Extra large bento box with permanent partition (for hungry boyfriends)
8 – a pair of onigiri molds (large and small)
9 – set of 3 onigiri molds (kuma, heart, star)
10 – furoshiki
11 – pair of Usagi cookie cutters
12 – bento bag (matches the Urara Sakura bento box)
13 – elastic band to match red Urara bento box
14 – elastic band to match tan Urara bento box

And all that for less than 1,300 pesos (around US$26.00?)

Introductory Post May 31, 2006

Hi everyone.

I’ve been making bentos for my boyfriend, but I’ve never really thought about taking pictures of it until I found this community.

In any case, because of all the pretty food that everyone has been posting photos of, I’m inspired to start cooking and assembling bentos again! I haven’t done either in a while due to work and because our current apartment is a bit cramped. Hehe…

Anyway, for lack of a decent bento pic, here’s a photo of a three-tier food box (not sure if you can still call it a bento… unless you’re packing food for 6 people…) that I bought from a flea market some time last year for 50 pesos (around 1 US dollar). The three layers can be detached from the carrier. The plush toy is just there for the cute factor. ^_^;;

The food container (I’ll call it that for now until I get a go signal from someone that it IS considered a bento) was used a few weeks after being bought for my partner’s birthday get-together, where all three layers were filled with california maki. Though it can’t be seen in the pic, the wasabi that came with the maki were molded into the shape of leaves, with two leaves per tier. (Also, as I just noticed in this pic, one of our guests got impatient and ate one of the maki before I can take a picture…)

On kitty buns and racoons April 30, 2006

Happiness is when after A YEAR, yours and your boyfriend’s days off are FINALLY ON THE SAME DAY.

hehe… anyway, that first day when our rest days finally synched was spent walking around and exploring our quaint little village of San Antonio here in Makati.

Our gem of a find was a Japanese grocery a couple of blocks from ShopWise. And mind you, it’s not like other Japanese groceries where everything for sale is either canned, bottled or dried and shrink-wrapped. This one is a grocery. It has a produce section, a meat section, a bread section, and at the time that we were there, the delivery bay was open and crates of goods were coming in. And they have cute, small baskets that you can use for shopping.

And our purchase of the day was a pair of chocolate kitty bread buns…