Bento How-To’s

Back to School: Bento 101

August 24, 2011

*Dust dust ….. dusting cobwebs off this blog!!* I’m back! Wow, I think this is the longest that I have taken a hiatus without intentionally doing that. We have been out camping & enjoying all that summer activities since we finally got some nice decent summer weather. I know most of the country have started [...]

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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 [...]

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How to make an octodog

October 5, 2009

As promised, here’s another tutorial. This time, it’s the simple yet well-loved octodog!! First, cut the hot dog into half. You can actually use the entire hot dog if you want really long tentacles. I’ve even done a 3/4 and 1/4 size for a mommy and baby octodog. But I find that this particular size [...]

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How to make checkered apples

September 21, 2009

Finally… a long-overdue tutorial! I’ve been wanting to do some simple tutorials for a while now but somehow life got in the way and the tutorials were put on the back burner. But I promise that I will get them done slowly but surely. And here’s the first one – the Checkered Apples! First start [...]