I Heart Bento Boxes

I've always liked the idea of Bento boxes - a bit of that, some of this, etc, etc. I recently thought I'd look them up online and I've found tonnes of youtube videos on how to make them.

Here are my two favourites but I can't believe they both make octopus sausages. Is this traditional?




And now one showing true devotion! Cool egg mould! (Just ignore the music)

Unpleasant coloured food and drink

There are certain colours that food should not be: blue and grey.

Blue is just wrong and I don’t expect anyone to dispute that (although I did have a friend who said that as a child they used to be given ‘Alien Scrambled Eggs’ on a Saturday morning by her father who was a dab hand with the food colouring!)

Grey is actually found in a few dishes but has Dickensian connotations of thick lumpy porridge or thin, watery gruel.

With this in mind, I was surprised recently by the new milkshake introduced by a certain fast food chain as part of their Summer menu: the Mars Milkshake - a more un-summery, unappetising drink I can’t imagine. Even in the name of research, I wasn’t keen on tring it but then today I noticed a new poster with the drink contents all touched up to be a deep brown. Presumably business has been slow!

The Lasagndwich

A 'Brangelina' idea of horrific proprtions was drawn to our attention by the Guardian's Word of Mouth blog. It was however, too good to keep to myself!

The Lasagne sandwich has come to Tesco!