Not Cooking Cute, please

September 28, 2015 6:48 PM

Now that Just Bento is not really updating any longer, what's the best bento blog aimed at adults, not kids, and not at showing off the adorable widgets you manage to buy to make your lunch special, but just a focus on bento staples, fillers and techniques for plotting out lunches in a bento style. A focus on vegetarian is best, but not essential.
posted by crush-onastick to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

I am not a bento person (IANABP), but my favourite bento blog (not the least bit cute) is Butch Bento. It's more photo inspiration than techniques, but so visually satisfying.
posted by bibliotropic at 8:31 PM on September 28, 2015 [6 favorites]

Not a blog, but have you checked out Cookpad? Cookpad is Japan's main collection of user-generated recipes. There are literally millions of recipes on it. They've split off an English language site which is sadly not nearly as user friendly as the original. But it does have a collection of a few hundred translated bento recipes here.
posted by Caravantea at 4:08 AM on September 29, 2015

It looks like they're still updating their Facebook page. Maybe move over there?
posted by Major Matt Mason Dixon at 4:45 AM on September 29, 2015

Yeah, some time ago (October), a post says, "In the meantime, if you want to see short posts from me and you are on Facebook, please consider Liking my Facebook JustBento/JustHungry page, which has been growing steadily since early this year (when I finally started paying attention to it. ^^"
posted by wenestvedt at 5:49 AM on September 29, 2015

I used to go to my lunch can beat up your lunch back in the day. I don't know if she still updates though.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 8:06 AM on September 30, 2015