A year or two ago, as a result of some random Google searches and link surfing I ended up on a blog that featured awesome looking bentos. Each post on the blog featured a carefully crafted bento box that a housewife had put together for her family. It was all pretty neat. It’s kind of a shame that she hasn’t updated in years, but life happens, right? Well, it was on that blog that I was introduced to Zojirushi’s Mr. Bento. It’s basically an insulated thermos that holds four different containers so that you can put together a meal ahead of time and it will all be a good temperature by the time lunch time rolls around. After seeing it featured on the blog I told myself that I wanted one. For a long time though I found that I just was not able to justify the cost. The thing generally goes for about $70 or so. There was no point in spending that kind of cash for such a product, so I made a mental note of it and just moved on. Though, a few times I tried doing searches in Chinatown for the product at a lower price point. I did find it but it wasn’t low enough for my liking.

Over time, I kind of forgot about it. About two weeks ago I was poking around Red Flag Deals when I saw a post saying that Zojirushi stuff was on sale on Amazon.ca. The brand name immediately triggered stuff for me. I did a search on Amazon and found out that the product was reduced to about $40. I used that opportunity to place an order for the product. Right on. And after a rough delivery process it arrived. I’m actually rather impressed with it. I’ve thought about the different things I could do with all the compartments. Unfortunately for me, all of those thoughts just remained as thoughts. My Mr. Bento has just been sitting on my dining table. In all honesty I’ve just been waiting for inspiration to hit. This is, all of this sort of speaks to an even bigger issue. Really, I’ve been so busy lately such that I just haven’t had time to cook dinner. I do not recall the last time I really put in effort for an evening meal. If I had to guess my last meal would probably have been spaghetti sauce. Without the time in the evening I have trouble figuring out what I would want to put in those containers. As a result I’ve been empty handed at lunch. It’s not like I was expecting a Mr. Bento to change any of my habits, but I was hoping that it would at least encourage me to bring more food from home. So much for that, eh? Anyway, I do have plans to bring that thermos in for at least one lunch. Who knows when it all falls into place?