Bento Tips

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 #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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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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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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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 [...]

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Where to buy bento supplies in USA?

September 9, 2009

Since I am getting more new inquiries from my dear readers looking for bento supplies, I am reposting a link that I did last here. So click HERE to see if there are any bento supplies store near you.

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What to do with bento leftovers?

March 4, 2009

Do you waste a lot of food? What do you do with all the leftover bread after you cut out the shapes? These are the questions that I receive a lot when they see my bentos. So I thought I will share some of the ways to use up the leftovers from the bento-making. 1. [...]