This Artist Certainly Isn't Starving

These hilarious, incredible and tasty bento box creations are from Sakuraku Kitso, found via Trophy Horse, where I originally saw a few selections and was immediately curious about how they came to be.

Sakuraku is an avid bento box artist who does up these whimsical lunches for her lucky family and friends. She's taken the cookie-cutter sandwich shapes idea to a whole new level and created an art form. Seriously, next time I think I'm impressing my daughter by cooking an egg in a piece of bread with a heart-shape cut out of it, I'm going to feel somewhat ashamed and inferior. More so than usual.

Is it just me or is there a certain comfort in seeing food all tucked in this way? I think it reminds me of lunch time early in elementary school; I'd open my lunchbox with the matching thermos that my mom packed, usually branded with some TV series running at the time (did I have a Laverne & Shirley lunchpail?) and I'd see my sandwich wrapped up all nice, carrot sticks which I mostly ignored, the apple I never ate and hid in my room until it rotted, and the Hostess cupcake or some other packaged treat that was probably killing us. Hey, we're still here, right?

Modelled after the 60s poster, not an endorsement of drugs! says Sakuraku