Mainly rice, but still filling and home-made tasting

Mixed fry bento

Brand: Cupid Yamato

Price: 430 yen

Place of purchase: Cupid Yamato

Rating:

My local supermarket typically has a decent lineup of bento on offer each day, and I recently grabbed this one for a quick meal. It came with a variety of different fried items along with rice, some veggies, and a small amount of tomato-sauced pasta. It was a very filling meal, and for just a touch over 400 yen it ends up cheaper than most meals I could get at a restaurant. I also appreciate that it had a fresh, homemade taste to it -- it didn't feel like it had been sitting around for long, so they get points for quality.

When you look at this bento, one thing is evident quite quickly -- the majority of this meal is rice. That's fine if you really like rice, but I would like to see a higher vegetable component to some bento so that it would feel like more of a balanced meal. I guess rice is fairly cheap (and filling!) so it serves as a good bento item, but it does end up pretty carb-heavy. Also, the mixed fried goods aren't always things I like -- for instance, I'm not a huge shrimp fan, but I love katsu. In saying that, the parts I don't really care for end up going to my husband who is far less picky than I am, so there's no waste.