Mummy's Bento Box with Love

My 18 year old second son has  returned back home  from UK for  his  holidays.
He has just started a part- time job,working in the Packing Company in  Yokohama from 5pm to 4 am everyday .
Now it's the season of the midyear gift in Japan  so the company is very busy.
Just only a few days have passed, he has become a senior and he is now  teaching newcomers  how to pack many cardboard boxes in a cart..I am so happy as he enjoys the tough job which is also his 1st working experience  in his life..

When he leaves home, I pass a bento box to him.Nowadays there are many kinds of instant food in the supermarket here but I don't like them.
 In this hot weather  putting an Ume-boshi   in the center of rice is  important to avoid it from getting rot. .Actually he didn't like Ume-boshi  before, but recently he found his body needs it as he sweat a lot  , the Ume-boshi includes citric acid and salt.

http://macromacrobiyoko.blogspot.jp/2012/02/ume-boshi-pickled-plums.html

http://macromacrobiyoko.blogspot.jp/2012/06/rainy-season-work.html

When he comes back around 5am he is always starving , I rush to cook a big breakfast  for him   and later a simple one (Miso soup ,  porridge or rice and pickles)  for my husband who sometimes brings 2 big  brown rice balls to his office for lunch . I start to prepare my son's bento box from 3 pm then dinner from 6pm so I am feeling myself being a full time  cook at home now!That simply give me great pleasure.

          


                      Brown rice & Ume-boshi, rolled egg, ginger pork, Shirataki, burdock, pumpkin, green pepper, fish paste &cucumber
            

                     Brown rice & Ume-boshi,  Grilled salted salmon, rolled egg, dried  and seasoned tofu, eggplant, carrot, greeen, fried  tofu

                     Brown rice &Ume-boshi,  minced chicken balls,dried mushroom,eggplant,lady fingers,  Shirataki, burdock&carrot,boiled sweet corn

                                *He asked me more volume for the energy!

                        Brown rice & Ume-boshi,  Fried  chicken, vege tempura(white onion, carrot, burdock), rolled egg, dried mushrooms,eggplant,carrot, burdock ,Shirataki
                               

                                Brown rice & Ume-boshi, fried fishes, rolled egg, tempura of French    beans, boiled white radish, Hijiki seawead & carrot, green pepper

                                                                                                           
          

                                

                                       We wrap with a cloth.