october is breast cancer awareness month. like those of my fellow bento bloggers, my life has been touched by this disease, and so i was moved by bento blog’s invitation to participate in a “pink october” awareness-raising project. check out the lovely themed bentos by jenn of bentobird, susan of hawai`i’s bento box cookbook, lia of my bentolicious, debra of hapa bento, and chantale of skinny mini kiki. did you participate? if so, please add a link in the comments!
my “octobre rose” bento is simple — two pale pink onigiri (the rice is mixed with ume vinegar powder, and each one is stuffed with an umeboshi) topped with breast cancer ribbons (made from the outer layer of a kamaboko log), a stamed broccoli floret and purple potato flower, two pieces of veggie tamagoyaki, two pea pods, a vegetarian chicken nugget with a cheese heart, and a two-tone tomato pick with a pink flag.
i should note that the ribbons were inspired by pikko’s cool egg sheet ribbons from her breast cancer awareness bento last year. thanks for the bento-spiration (as always) pikko!
bento zen 
A very sweet bento Megan. Thanks for the mention. So glad that I’m able to participate alongside other caring bentoists like yourself.
thanks for your comment debra! you are very welcome for the link, and i am honored to be in such good company too!
So lovely and sweet. A beautiful contribution! Here’s mine: http://happylittlebento.blogspot.com/2010/10/pink-ribbon-bento.html
oops, so sorry i didn’t link yours sheri! must have gone up after/while i was compiling the other links. yours is sweet too 🙂
So lovely! I like that you use pink part of kamaboko to make those bright pink ribbons, very stand out. Thanks for mentioning Megan! Glad to see everyone’s Pink October creation (^.^)
i love seeing all the pink bentos too — so nice for everyone to put their creativity to a good cause. kamaboko was the first thing i thought of, the pink on it is SO bright!!
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Sweet and lovely bento! Love the purple flower and the pink ribbons. Here’s mine:
thanks emily! i love your sweet little angel, and this looks like a yummy lunch too!
Lovely bento, the pink ribbons are so cute! kamaboko and pink vinegar powder are almost “nonexistent” here ^_^
I´ll be soon posting my contribution =)
can’t wait to see yours karaimame – let me go check my google reader 🙂 and i have a hard time finding the pink vinegar powder, i’m down to my last packet, uh oh!
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A beautiful participation for “octobre rose” bento! I participe too here http://www.lesbentosdejuly.fr/article-bento-rose-pour-la-bonne-cause-58748284.html
yours is beautiful july! what a great cause, makes me so happy to see everyone’s participation!
So delicate, vivid and cheerful–such perfect pink ribbons and I love the pink flag flying crisply atop the cute bright tomatoes! Thanks for the mention 🙂
my pleasure jenn! as always i am so thrilled to have such creative bento pals whose work so inspires me!
I absolutely love your ‘skinny’ long bentos and this one is just so pretty! I will one day try the onigiri like yours but for now, will admire yours (and wish I were eating it too, hehe). Am so sorry to hear you’ve also been touched by cancer.. it’s a horrible disease and one I hope will be eradicated in the near future.
Thank you SO much for the link mention!
thanks so much chantale! you can do onigiri like this easy peasy, just use saran wrap! but your bento are already adorable, no need to change a thing :o)
Gorgeous! I love the purple potato flower, very cute! My contribution is here…
http://www.ohayobento.com/files/4f70ccefeb5e0488c9304ff15bdd3040-90.html
yours is great heather! so much fun seeing everyone’s interpretations on the theme!
Oh I love it1 Everyone has such beautiful Pink Bentos! So creative and thoughtful!
thanks lyndsey! such an honor to be part of such a nice project 🙂
Fantastic pink ribbon bento, and great idea using the kamaboko for the ribbons. I made a ThinkPink bento as well: http://sonomabento.blogspot.com/2010/10/think-pink-bento.html
yours looks delicious michelle! i am wishing you and your mom much health and strength.
I planned on making one myself, and last night I was thinking about using kamaboko as the ribbon too! I’ll have work on my bento tonight. =)
My pink ribbon is sooo tiny!!http://homekinegrindz.blogspot.com/2010/10/think-pink-bento.html
cute teeny tiny ribbon! looks delicious too 😀
Hi again 🙂 Here’s mine:
http://bentobird.blogspot.com/2010/10/project-pinkoctobre-rose-bento.html
The making of this bento sounds so simple but it comes very pretty and sweet, Megan :D. Undoubtedly a beautiful contribution for the Pink October Event 😀
thanks ta! it wanted to keep it simple, this is about the message, not some kind of advanced bento skill set, you know?
Hi Megan!
This bento is really beautiful! As usual your colors are stunning!
I am late so I don’t think this will be an official contribution but I wanted to do it anyway:
thank you pauline! i love those delicate roses in yours! still counts in my book 😉
Wow this is simply beautiful. I love the purple flower and the ribbons on the rice. This is such nice attention to detail. It looks very pleasing to the eye with nice color, but still features the foods and makes them look very appetizing. Thanks so much for sharing this, it looks great :-).
a very nice bento with a very meaningful meaning to all women in the world. october 11 is my birthday and every pink bento created on this day by amazing bento makers such as Lia Chen and you, i call them a pink bento for rio. hahaha! really, it’s such an amazing job. all of you guys who contributed to this wonderful project! keep it up! 😀
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