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Bento #104 – Lotsa love

September 1, 2010

Woohoo.. we survived the first day of school and the first lunch at school!! Going into the new school year, I was not worried about Lil’ C adapting to her school work but I was more worried about lunch time. Lil’ C is a pretty good eater but she is also a very slow eater. [...]

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Back to School #4: What to do with bento leftovers

August 26, 2010

I am sure that for those who are new to bento, you must have noticed that I use a lot of cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes of food. I am sure that it must have crossed your mind that I am wasting a lot of food with all the leftovers from the cutouts. [...]

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Honey Mustard Salmon

August 24, 2010

When we first moved here to the Pacific Northwest, we were not big fans of salmon. However we discovered that salmon is so easily available here. It seems such a waste if we don’t learn to enjoy this local product especially since salmon is known for their Omega-3 content. So now we are slowly growing [...]

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Back to School #3: Bento Tutorials

August 16, 2010

As I mentioned before, a couple of cookie cutters will make a whole lot of difference towards making a bento appealing. However, there are also different ways to enhance the bento too just like these 2 tutorials that I previously did:

How to make an octodog
How to make checkered apples

I will try to have tutorials coming [...]

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Back to School #2: Bento Supplies

August 10, 2010

Before you can start bentoing (is there such a word??), the most important thing is to get some bento supplies. I get most of my supplies from Daiso but if you do not have a Daiso nearby, check out my previous post on a list of other places that you can find bento supplies.
If you [...]

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Back to School #1: Kids bento ideas

August 5, 2010

For this past week, I have been getting a lot of readers looking for lunchbox ideas. Our school here do not start till end of this month but I guess a lot of schools on the east coast has either already started or will be starting in the next couple of weeks. Since we are [...]

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Super Mario Yellow Toad Cake

August 2, 2010

When the birthday boy requested for a Yellow Toad cake, I had no idea what he was talking about. I thought I knew all about Super Mario when I made the Super Mario cake but I guess I was wrong. There are so many new characters in the Super Mario world that I never knew [...]

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Mobile Chowdown 4: Maximus Minimus

July 22, 2010

For the last couple of years especially this past year, there has been a whole influx of food trucks. I am not talking about just the taco truck which has been around for a while but these new fancy food trucks that sell gourmet food. Usually these food trucks can be found in different places [...]

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Happy 4th Birthday!!

July 14, 2010

I didn’t even realize it till today that this blog just turned 4!!! Happy Birthday, my dear blog! It has been 4 fun years. However lately I seem to be running out of steam. Could it be a blog burnout? Or maybe I am just running out of stuff to post. I will [...]

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Campfire Popcorn

July 6, 2010

Three weeks since the summer holidays began and we’ve already been on our second camping trip. I wished that the weather was a little warmer during those camping trips but alas, it has been a cold and wet summer so far. This week is supposed to be warming up, so hopefully we’ll be getting the [...]