I've been doing reasonably well at making myself bentos most work days for the last three weeks. The carbohydrates are easy because the potato salad lasted ages and I've been cooking extra rice and freezing it so that I always have some to go in a bento. The thing I find trickier to think of and have on hand are veggies and to a lesser extent protein items. To help me come up with more variety here is a list of recipe I want to try out.
Vegetables
Sweet pepper and carrot confettiMiso tahini and nut paste on vegetablesCarrot and sesame saladStir fried cabbage with garlic and cranberries Protein
Misoyaki tofuTwo colour spicy lentil salad with cucumber and radishVegan iri dofuMochi tofu nuggetsSpicy lentil snacksVegan turnip cakefrozen tofu cutletsDry curry This week I'm trying out the turnip cake and stir fried cabbage.