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Mini Teri Beef Bento for Buddy
On Sunday, we invited Mr. Pikko’s parents over for dinner so we could have some of our fish and rabbit, since they were getting past their prime. They brought some marinated beef to supplement it and...
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Low Budget Bentos: Furikake Chicken for Three
For some reason, I woke up early this morning and had the sudden urge to fry chicken. I had a packet in the fridge and since the kids had asked for bentos the night before and stuck up their noses when...
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Another Soboro Bento for Buddy
Last week, when I made pork soboro for dinner, Buddy loved it so much that he asked for the leftovers for lunch. Since I’d made it for him for lunch before only to have him bring the whole thing home,...
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Lasagna Bento for Buddy
Last night at around 8 pm, my eyes clamped shut while we were watching TV and I ended up waking up at 1 am, so I’m on a really weird sleep schedule right now. While I sawed wood on the floor of our...
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Rilakkuma Sandwich Bento
Summer fun has started for my kids, which means that I have to pack them lunches every day now. First day, I made them spam musubi bentos, though I haven’t processed those images yet because I wanted...
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Spam Musubi Bentos
Leave it to me, as usual, to say I’ll post something and then just never do it. Oi. This is a photo from the first day of summer fun, when I made the kids spam musubis. I have found, through trial and...
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Hearty Valentine’s Day Sandwiches Bento with FunBites
Mr. Pikko gave me a bread machine for Christmas and I’ve been puttering away trying to find my favorite recipes for breads we enjoy. We usually eat Honey Oat bread all the time and so I baked one of...
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VIDEO: How to Make a Star Pizza Bento
Note: This post was written forever ago and I never published it, so here it is! Back in January I packed a lunch for Buddy with leftover pizza slices by cutting them into star shapes with a cookie...
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Two Sammie Bento
It feels like forever since I’ve written here and I feel terrible about it. I’ve been fixing up all the broken images here, reading past posts and looking at old photos and thinking I need to get back...
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Musubi and Spam Bento
Last night I fell asleep putting the kids to sleep and so I didn’t get to do prep work for Baby Girl’s lunch today such as picking the box and working out the kinks in her food choices, making this...
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Egg Salad Sammies Bento
Now that I’m a good full week into biking, I’m starting to feel a certain spark of confidence build up around getting myself to work on something faster than my two feet. I don’t feel quite as stupid...
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Two Home Lunches
School started here in Hawaii at the beginning of August, so Buddy is now a month into kindergarten and I’m happy to say he has adjusted very quickly to the surroundings. I wasn’t sure if he was going...
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Twinkle Twinkle Spaghetti Bento
Grandma and Grandpa J are watching the kids a few days of the week during the interim between school and their summer programs, so we went over to their house for dinner the other night and I brought...
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Candy Corn Sammies Bento
Gah! Halloween is in just over a week, and I only just put my Halloween wreath up today! I’m awful. I’m also in a sandwich bento rut. My stubborn son refuses to eat anything but ham sandwiches. I’ve...
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