Meaty bento #2: Bears in the Wood

Today's meaty bento is  a quick, cute bento:

Bed of rocket - The easy part. Remove rocket from packets and spread over the bottom of your bento!
Bear onigiri - I used my onigiri mould to make rice balls in the shape of a bear's face, and my nori punch for the faces.
Venison burgers - For the bears' bodies I used venison mince mixed with a little redcurrant jelly and onion and then shaped into oblongs. I pan-fried them and placed them under the onigiri to make a body
Carrots - Bears need paws! I used small carrot rounds for this. 

Fish bento #3

Today's bento was quick:

• 100g sushi rice with some frozen petits pois stirred in
• Broccoli
• Mackerel fillet pan-fried with salt and pepper
• Carrot slices
• Little petters cut out of carrot and placed on the rice

Post-holiday bento

You may have noticed a lack of bentos on these pages. That. my friends, is down to the fact that I have been in France on holiday. I am now back, and back on my diet (hehe) and back to bento.

Today's bento is pretty simple. In the top layer is 100g brown rice mixed with 2tbsp petits pois (this is a great way to sneak in a portion of veg when space is limited) and topped with little stars cut from carrots.

In the bottom layer I put some purple sprouting broccoli, steamed carrot sticks, mini venison burgers (I made and froze these a couple of weeks ago) and a boiled egg moulded to look like a bunny:

The most time-consuming elements were boiling the rice (I just put an extra pan on when cooking my dinner) and making the stars, but it was still only about 35 minutes.