In honour of the London 2012 Olympics I decided to make an Olympic themed bento today. I must tell you, I'm mildly in love with this one! I had a vision for this bento a couple weeks ago, and intended to create it earlier but got so busy I just couldn't make time. Irony is it was very quick to make, and used up the left over pizza from dinner! Double win!! I've always been … [Read more...]
Bento Scrap French Toast Casserole and another guest post!
I had the pleasure of guest posting again over at NeverSeconds for breakfast this time. Today's lunch was leftovers from breakfast! Mmmmm, how I love, love, LOVE this meal, and so do the kids which makes me love it even more! If you want to make it for yourself check out the recipe here, it's delicious and easy, I assure you!! In this bento: Alphabet pretzels, mixed … [Read more...]
There’s a monster in my lunch box!!
I've mentioned before that sometimes I have tremendous self discipline and research, and plan out my attack. Those days I typically come up with super cute bentos that will make even the most discerning toddler grin. Other Most days, I fly by the seat of my pants and hope for the best! This is a funny route because sometimes it results in some of my best bentos, and sometimes … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday Bento(s)
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...]