For Those About to Game… We Salute You! With a Video Game Bento Box!

Here at Mom’s Basement, we love to play video games.  And when we’re stuck at work, we’re dreaming about video games.  At least, I know I am.  I’ve found that I often need a pick-me-up partway through my work day, so what better way to cheer me up than to look down at a delicious lunch that looks like a PlayStation controller?  So join us on another journey to the world of Bento, and let’s make a lunch that might not be able to help you play video games, but will taste so much better than a plastic controller!

This bento box is based off of the shape of a PlayStation controller.  You will need:

PlayStation Bento Box

• 1 cup cooked rice
• 1 sheet of nori (seaweed)
• 1-2 slices of lunchmeat (I used pepper turkey)
• 1 spinach leaf (or something green)
• sriracha (or something red)

Step 1: Form your cooked rice into the basic shape of a controller.  This is the best time to be playing with your food!

Step 2: Cover your rice form with the nori.  Place your rice controller into your bento box or plastic container.

Step 3: You will need to cut out the details of the controller.  You could use either cheese or some type of lunchmeat.  For this bento, I am using turkey.  You will need to cut out 2 larger circles; 4 small circles; 4 square-like shapes with points (for the directional pad); the letters S (x2), O, N, Y and P; a medium sized rectangle, small rectangle and medium triangle.  You will also need a green triangle, which I cut from spinach.  For the X button, I cut 2 small rectangles from the nori.

Step 4: Place your details on the rice controller accordingly.  This is a very satisfying step, as your controller starts coming together.

Step 5: Using sriracha sauce, draw a square and circle on the corresponding buttons.  If you don’t like sriracha, you could use something else red for these details.

Step 6: Fill in any extra space in your bento box with other foods.  I love hot dogs, so I cut up a hot dog to line around the top.

Step 7: Remember this bento box is for eating!  Don’t try to connect it to your PlayStation, you might end up with a sticky mess.

Some of these are for eating, some I wouldn’t recommend eating, all are awesome!

Glowing Life Bar Ne… CriticalHitSho… $16.00	Grand Theft Chocola… MandiesCandies $12.00	Fondant Cupcake Top… TopItCupcakes $14.99	Geek Shirt – Video … redbrickwall $15.95
GIRL GAMER Video Ga… PlayBox $4.50	Cupcake Wrappers Vi… partyhartyhoo $10.00	I love video games … MyTinyTemptati… $15.00	I don’t need a … MyTinyTemptati… $15.00

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