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European/Asian family here.

Leftover dinner in a cute bento box.

Very few sandwiches, as my children aren't fans, and certainly never a PBJ, since the idea of a sweet sandwich is slightly nauseating to my non-American taste (plus DS is allergic to peanuts).

Bento boxes are small and meant to pack mostly rice, which is a dense and caloric food. So we pack bento boxes with small pasta, or rice, and a protein, such as chicken, very small wiener sausages cut to look like octopuses or penguins, ham, tofu, and small veggies cut in attractive forms, bento-style. The meat often has a coating of sauce, curry or bourguignon, or whatever we had for dinner.
If there is space left, I include a little piece of fruit, in its own cute container.

I buy all the bento supplies online - one can easily go crazy with all the adorable things out there. They even have boiled egg molds in car or animal shapes.

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