Steps to Prepare Ultimate Easy and Cute Character Bento: Nori Totoro

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The ingredients needed to make Easy and Cute Character Bento: Nori Totoro:

1. Make ready 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
2. Make ready 1 Fillings of your choice
3. Take 1 Nori seaweed
4. Get 1 Snacking kombu
5. Make ready 1 Sliced cheese
6. Get 1 Uncooked spaghetti strands

Instructions to make Easy and Cute Character Bento: Nori Totoro:

1. Take rice and put in any filling you like. Wrap it with plastic wrap and make a rice ball in an egg shape.
2. Fold a sheet of paper towel and cut out a stomach pattern to the size of the rice ball.
3. Fold the nori in half, lay the stomach pattern paper on top and cut.
4. Cut the edges of nori from step 3 and wrap it around the rice ball. Wrap it with a plastic wrap and let set.
5. For whiskers and ears, cut the snacking kombu using scissors (you can also use nori and cheese or kuro-mame for ears, fried pasta for whiskers, etc).
6. Stamp out the mouth with an oval cutter by stamping out a piece, then shifting the cutter up or down and stamping again.
7. Stamp out cheese to make eyes using a round cutter.
8. Punch out nori to make the iris and a nose.
9. Put nori for the nose on top of sliced cheese. Cut the cheese by running a toothpick along the seaweed.
10. Put patterns made of cheese on top of Totoro. To secure all the parts, you can use uncooked spaghetti strands (insert under the seaweed to hide the noodle).
11. Paste thinly cut nori on the mouth. Cut off any nori that's sticking out (it's easier if you use shredded nori).
12. Insert the kombu parts into the rice ball. Put punched out nori on the stomach and it's done.
13. This is also great for picnics.

Information on How to Elevate Your Mood with Food

In general, people have been conditioned to believe that “comfort” foods are terrible for the body and need to be avoided. If your comfort food is candy or junk food this might be true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be completely nourishing and it’s good for you to eat them. There are some foods that actually can improve your moods when you consume them. If you are feeling a little bit down and you need an emotional pick me up, try some of these.

Eggs, would you believe, are wonderful for helping you fight depression. Just see to it that you don’t get rid of the yolk. Every time you want to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most essential part of the egg. Eggs, the yolks especially, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can be fantastic for boosting your mood. This is because they improve the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that dictate how you feel). Consume an egg and feel better!

Put together a trail mixout of different seeds and nuts. Your mood can be raised by consuming peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and other types of nuts. This is because these foods are high in magnesium, which helps to raise serotonin levels. Serotonin is the “feel good” chemical that directs your brain how you feel all the time. The more of this chemical in your brain, the better you’ll feel. Nuts, along with raising your mood, can be a superb source of protein.

Cold water fish are excellent for eating if you are wanting to battle depression. Herring, trout, tuna, wild salmon, and mackerel are all high in omega-3s and DHA. DHA and omega-3s are two things that really help the grey matter in your brain run a lot better. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can basically help you fight back depression.

Grains can be great for fighting a terrible mood. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all truly excellent for helping raise your happiness levels. They can help you feel full for longer also, helping you feel better. Feeling starved can be awful! These grains can elevate your mood because it’s easy for your body to digest them. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps jumpstart a rise in your blood sugar which in turn kicks up your mood to a happier place.

Your mood can truly be helped by green tea. You were just waiting to read that here, weren’t you? Green tea is high in a particular amino acid called L-theanine. Research has found that this amino acid stimulates the production of brain waves. This helps focus your mental energy while at the same time calming your body. You already knew that green tea helps you feel better. Now you are aware that it can help improve your mood as well!

As you can see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you are wanting to feel better! Try a few of these instead!