Pochacco, a Sanrio character, gently holding a big heart. “I love you.” Mami-okusama’s affection is overflowing from the bento box! The children were absolutely delighted, and their friends were just as excited, exclaiming, “Amazing!” and “So cute!” The big heart is made using the carrot burger patty recipe we shared with you the other day. Seeing the word “LOVE” shining on top of the patty fills our hearts with happiness. On Valentine’s Day, let us follow Mami-okusama’s example and prepare a heart-shaped carrot burger patty for someone special. 【Bento Menu】＊30 percent polished rice cooked in a clay pot (200g) 🍚Used to shape Pochacco’s face, ears, and hands, with the remaining rice spread across the bottom of the bento box.The ears were wrapped in nori to create a three-dimensional effect, and his facial features were also created using nori.Paste made from homemade pickled plum matured for three years was placed on his cheeks in heart shapes.Pochacco’s three little strands of hair were made from hijiki seaweed. ＊Carrot burger patty 🥕Previously shared on Instagram.The plain version was shaped into a heart and pan-fried specially for Valentine’s Day.The “LOVE” lettering and flower decorations were made from salt-boiled daikon radish and carrot, and arranged on top. ＊Two kinds of heart-shaped sweet potato dumplings 🍠“Sweet potato” and “sweet potato with wood ear mushroom.”Each dumpling was topped with salt-boiled daikon radish and carrot. ＊ Jerusalem artichoke with sesame misoPreviously shared on Instagram. ＊Rapeseed blossoms with ponzu dressingFinished with a sprinkle of freshly roasted sesame seeds. Overflowing with love🩷 Mami-okusama’s super cute vegan bento, no. 24Likes, saves, and shares are most welcome✨ ***About Mami-okusama (Mami Okada)Mami-okusama was born in Aichi Prefecture and was raised in a farming household. Also known as Japan’s Vegan Beauty, she is the wife of and Aide to Masaaki-sama (Masaaki Okada), World Church of Messiah’s Representative of Kyoshu. She is a vegan recipe developer focusing on the Japanese vegan diet. She is the first to establish the “vegan deco ben” (vegan decorative bento) and “vegan kyara ben” (vegan character bento) genres. Not only are they beautiful to the eye, these bento are created entirely from plant-based ingredients, in line with what Masaaki-sama teaches on the truth of food, that seasonal and local eating rooted in the climate and terrain of Japan is the most beneficial for health and well-being, that is, to eat what grows in one’s local region. Through these and also through the creation of her many original recipes, she seeks to spread the Christian vegan diet—the true healthy diet. She graduated from University of Tsukuba. During her studies there, she became actively involved in volunteer activities such as refugee support. She was also repeatedly asked to participate in the Miss Tsukuba Contest and was approached by many modeling agencies, but she declined all of these offers as she wanted to focus on refugee support activities. In recognition of her efforts in refugee support, she received the University of Tsukuba President’s Award in 2012. She holds a license to teach English to intermediate and high school students. After graduating from university, she began working for World Church of Messiah in 2013. In 2014, she married Masaaki-sama, the great-grandson of the founder of World Church of Messiah, Meishu-sama (Mokichi Okada 1882–1955), and the representative and successor of Kyoshu-sama. On May 24, 2026, on the day of Pentecost, she assumed the position of Aide to the Representative of Kyoshu. Currently, while raising three children, she is working tirelessly unlike anyone else in the practice and spread of the Christian vegan diet as taught in Masaaki-sama’s revolutionary message: “Jesus Christ was the last and ultimate sacrifice—so it is no longer necessary to eat a diet that comes with the suffering of animals.”