{"id":1397,"date":"2013-09-12T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2017-04-13T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:49:21","slug":"no-wonder-i-love-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/12\/no-wonder-i-love-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wonder I Love Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s no wonder I love bento.<\/p>\n

To the left was my lunch box when I was in 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> grades. I don’t remember if I asked or it or if my mom, knowing my tastes, just got it for me.<\/p>\n

I loved this lunch box so very much. You could put a sandwich in it that wouldn’t be all squished at lunchtime, and there were these little containers you could put other food in — a salad (which I often did. I like salads), cut up fruit in the little container, but best of all, you could freeze a drink in the cup and have it be cold<\/em> with slushy bits come lunchtime, even in an un-airconditioned Virginia June.<\/p>\n

But I also loved it because it was a little gadgety. All the pieces fit into the box perfectly, and the tops seals so the food wouldn’t mix. I was a picky little heathen as a youngster, and would have found the food mixing in my bento of my middle age horrifying.<\/p>\n

I was once pondering with my husband whether or not I would have made bento had I known about them when I was a teenager. I think, in the 1970s orange Tupperware goodness of my youth, I have an answer.<\/p>\n

I would have made bento. I would have adored making them, been proud of them and found them just as much of a respite in the middle of a difficult day as I do now. In fact, I can recall those neatly-organized lunches and the pleasure I found in them quite clearly.<\/p>\n

Truly, it’s no wonder I started making bento as soon as I encountered the concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no wonder I love bento. To the left was my lunch box when I was in 7th and 8th grades. I don’t remember if I asked or it or if my mom, knowing my tastes, just got it for me. I loved this lunch box so very much. You could put a sandwich in … <\/p>\n

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