Healthy Bento Boxes Made Delightful
Healthy bento has its origins in Japan, where making beautifully packaged healthy lunches for the family is considered a ritual.
Bento lunches for adults should be simple but arranged in such an attractive manner that the process of making healthy bento turns into culinary art. In recent years the bento box concept has spread across the world and is being increasingly used to replace brown paper or plastic packaged lunches.
Bento boxes for adults come in varied shapes and sizes and differing designs. It can be oval, square or round; single-tiered or multi-tiered, melamine, stainless steel, bamboo or food gradable plastic. There are compartments within the box to differentiate the food items while packing and ensuring the absence of any spill-over. Traditionally the bento box used to contain rice, meat or fish and seaweed; however, today people have gone creative and create a variety of food packed into the bento. The box is non-leaching and can be cleaned easily and used for several years together. You can also buy a carrying bag to match your bento along with a water bottle too.
The healthy bento box has names such as Mr Bento, Ms Bento, to indicate the number of food contents that can be fitted inside. Mr Bento is meant for the male adult and includes a lunch jar with three to four inside bowls and a vertical plate that holds them together. This bento lunch box goes vertical rather than offering a horizontal compartmentalized spread in the box. Ms Bento is similar but holds a lesser quantity and is more feminine in looks. There are options in bento boxes suited to babies and toddlers too. It is termed as the bento set comprising two sized bowls with lids, utensils, mugs and a bento box with non-leaching lids. These have a great appearance and are an excellent option for use at preschools, daycare centres or other places where you need to carry food for your baby. At the other extreme, there are bigger sized bento boxes that are apt for day picnics or any other lunch event.
Kids and adults alike can use the bento boxes and make lunchtimes a delightful affair. Bento making offers several advantages such as ensuring portion control, consuming nutritious and healthier lunches, generating lesser food waste, enabling leftovers to be used creatively for being packed into the bento and lastly making all co-workers and friends envious.
The food within the bento box need not be elaborate but using lots of colours and shaping the food items creatively goes a long way to enhance its appeal. Hard-boiled eggs can take the form of animals or fish, a hotdog turns into an octopus, or colourful faces churn out from a combination of rice and seaweed. The meal inside the bento can be the one of your choice; vegan, raw, gluten-free, paleo and so on. You can prepare your lunch box with bento equipment that is centred on a theme such as Easter Bentos, Halloween Bentos, Christmas Bentos etc. and make lunches of your loved ones very appetizing.
Use the Bento Box and make your lunchtime an event to be waited for! Bento Boxes For Adults are the best solution to an all year round interesting lunch.
Healthy Bento, Wood Two Tiered Lunch Box
Bring a touch of traditional Japan to your next meal. Unique in design the Wood Two Tiered Bento Box is a traditional Japanese inspired lunch box made from biodegradable natural Camphor, the materials sourced were handpicked for our purpose. Includes two layers and four compartments separated into two making it suitable for serving many meal combinations. The elegant design makes it the perfect choice for use in high-end hotels and Japanese restaurants but also widely used at home. Read more here: Wood Two Tiered Bento Box or find more about healthy bento boxed meals here.
