Reddit reviews Skater Japanese Modern/Traditional Compartmental Bento Box, Chopsticks, 870 ml

I know you didn't ask me, but I literally typed "Skater bento" into Amazon's search and it was the first one on there. I know we're running on low calories but c'mon.

I do this to a degree. I love the bento boxes because of all the little containers. I don't go to the extreme of faces/characters, but I think they're usually quite pretty.

http://imgur.com/a/RudY8

I bought a lot of bento boxes off Amazon, these four have held up the best over 2 years of daily use (I have three of each, so that may help too):

http://www.amazon.com/Skater-Japanese-Traditional-Compartmental-Chopsticks/dp/B001OC78JO

http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Traditional-Rabbit-Blossom-Bento/dp/B000M82KH6

http://www.amazon.com/OSK-Japanese-Traditional-Rabbit-Chopsticks/dp/B003VM8P8I

http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Bento-Temari-Rabbit-Carrying/dp/B006U6DAI2/

Not op but that looks like the Skater bento box from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Skater-Japanese-Traditional-Compartmental-Chopsticks/dp/B001OC78JO

Looks like this one, which I have and really like.

Thank you! It's this one.

I started on Monday, so I'm a bit late to this. I'm female, ~5'1", 25 and have been overweight since my early teens. I decided enough was enough and have buckled down and started doing this seriously. No more "maybe tomorrow".

On Monday, I was 213, which I've been hovering at for months. This is my peak weight.

Today, I weigh 202. Yes, almost certainly loss of water weight and all that, but it's really encouraging.

Given my height, I decided /r/1200isplenty is the diet style I wanted to try and I love it so far. I basically just eat only 1200 cal a day. I thought it was going to suck but I've found that I'm having trouble meeting that goal since I feel full on less than 1200 cal.

My 3 biggest helpful things so far is MyFitness Pal, a food scale, and a bento box.

I love it so far because I can eat what I want, just have to watch portions and plan out ahead if I want to "cheat" on a nice burger. (By cheat, I mean allocate ~100cal less a day for the previous few days to make up for the excess I'd go over on that one day). Luckily I've never had a sweet tooth so cutting out sweets is not loss to me. I've been mainly eating meats and veggies. Luckily I LOVE veggies, so that's easy.

I even went out to eat yesterday and opted for the lowest calories items on the menu (steak!) and didn't feel at all like I was missing out and couldn't even finish my sides by the end. And I came out a few hundred cals less than 1200 for the day and had to eat some healthy snacks later to reach it. And it's only a week in. So I feel like I can really be successful with this.

My biggest challenge was ignoring the desire to eat out of habit and boredom. But I've been good at ignoring that so far. When I do give in, I eat carrots or some light yogurt :)

A lot of annoying micromanaging which I hate and made me want to not bother all together.. But I decided last week that there's no secret to weight loss. No easy way to do it. Spending 10 mins each day "micromanaging" and entering my stuff into the app and planning out lunch is well worth it.

My ultimate goal weight is 110lb and this is the first time I've ever felt like I can reach it. It will take awhile, but I've been finding this diet easy to stick to. Hoping to add exercise in eventually.

Yep, I love hummus. :) The bento box I ordered from amazon. I really liked that it included chopsticks with their own holder integrated into the lid.

What are you looking for / what are you picky about with regards to robustness? Size? Aesthetics? Since this is your first box, you should probably come into this knowing that Bento boxes are generally pretty small compared to most lunch boxes made/sold in the U.S., so that will be an adjustment if that's what you're used to.

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With that in mind, I started with this one; it's ~870 ml, so it's a touch larger than most, the lid locks into place so you don't have to worry about spills in transit so much, and mine stood up quite well to microwaving/diswashers. The removable compartments/divider were a much less finicky way to get a hang of dish arrangement, too. Should be a solid way to go for a first box.

Bought it on Amazon! Here

I have this Skater box which is great. You can take out the inserts and have it be just a big open container, or use only one half of the inserts. I wouldn't consider it super leakproof if you're going to be jostling it around, storing it sideways, etc. but it does have a gasket and I've never had it leak.

Thanks! Honestly you can use any type of container. This is what I use. It has two tiers, and my "bento scraps" (foods that I weighed and already logged but I didn't use for decorating) go in the top tier. I have this one as well, but the capacity of it is too much for what I want to eat per meal. I've seen other people on here use that type of bento box though, and it looks good! See these examples: Bento 1; Bento 2

I got it for christmas, see the following:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Modern-Traditional-Compartmental-Chopsticks/dp/B001OC78JO/ref=s9_simh_gw_g201_i2_r?_encoding=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=02S76983N7PSTXK24KGR&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=16f14aeb-bd11-4e9e-8c26-9ca0139074ee&pf_rd_i=desktop

Here it is! I love it.

It is this Bento box: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OC78JO/

I actually ordered it off Amazon, it really does work great. Skater Brand apparently. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OC78JO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_apCHxb4XDJKFP

I don't know if you've done this already, but if you search for large bento boxes [like this](MB Square black the Square Bento Box https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GRZINNS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_rsklybCFRW3NB), that might be more what you're looking for..?

Edit: I've just seen that the listing doesn't show the inside. Very strange. Here.

Also see r/bento for the boxes they use.

Edit again (sorry): Saw this one being used on r/bento. I think that one is pretty good, much better than the one I found.

I recently ordered these bento boxes for the bf and I to bring lunch to work. I've been extra motivated to make awesome lunches, and we've saved so much money already in the past two weeks.