Today is a very special day! It's our Rainy's birthday!! Rainy is one of our two international students who is living with us for 2 weeks. It's her 13th birthday!! She's officially a teen today and I'm excited! I love birthday's more than I can explain! With birthday on the brain I attempted to execute a little birthday themed bento. As all my loyal readers will know, some of … [Read more...]
New Bento Boxes and some sailing themed bentos
So we're officially into week 2 of having our students and as far as I can tell we're all enjoying ourselves! I took my two girls, and three of their friends shopping downtown on Saturday. Lucky for me they gravitated towards a shop called Yokoyaya 123 which as far as I could tell is very similar to Daiso. While the girls shopped I picked out a couple of … [Read more...]
{MAKE IT} Bento Bread Scrap French Toast Casserole with Homemade Fresh Berry Compote
The finished, plated product! Delish!!Do you ever scratch your head at the amount of "waste" that comes from all the bento sammies that are made? Well, I have a fantastic secret to share with you!! In my beginning days of bento making I hated the fact that there were all these pieces of bread that were getting essentially going to waste, so I started toasting them and making … [Read more...]
I can do that!! Panda bear bento(s)!
I've once again had an "I can do that!" moment! My moment sadly concluded at about 1am this morning looking at 4 sad little panda bears that just didn't turn out quite as I had planned... Not bad for a first attempt though I guess! I once again received inspiration for this from MORIAZU.s LunchBox on FaceBook. Same place I got the inspiration for this lunch. Seriously, so … [Read more...]
They’re here!! They’re here!! My first Quad Bento Lunch Day!
Our 2 international exchange students arrived today from Hong Kong and they are just to die for! Super sweet, super nice little 12 year old girls who showered us with gifts. They'll be staying with us for 2 weeks and I am so very excited! We have hosted a student before, but never two at once, and never so young. Having Asian students I'm now even more encouraged to step up my … [Read more...]
