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Bento Central and Korean Leftovers

January 7, 2010 Beef

A bento “newspaper” called Bento Central is born. Take a look at a beautiful Hakoya bento box bought at J-List, filled with Korean takeout leftovers!

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Salmon Bento (354)

May 11, 2009 Fish

I have exciting news! Thanks to @hawaii on Twitter, I now get to go to KITV’s LOST viewing party at Dave and Busters this Wednesday! Woohoo! Finally, Lost bentoing pays off! Here is my latest on the boob tube: Last Thursday I launched the new drawing for the Zojirushi Mr. Bento thermal lunch jar, so [...]

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Snack Bento (350)

April 28, 2009 Products

Uh oh. This marks my halfway mark to bento #400. My back is aching just thinking about it. If you haven’t heard, I’m hosting a giveaway sponsored by Zojirushi for a Ms. Bento thermal lunch jar. Entering is easy, just comment with a meal plan! Today’s blog plug is for Iris from the Netherlands, who [...]

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Salmon Pasta Bento (348)

April 20, 2009 Fish

I’m starting this week with a little good will towards other bento blogs. My article An Online Bento Evolution has been by far my most viewed post ever and to continue to spread the word about the online bento community, I will be posting about other bento blogs out there that are newcomers to the [...]

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PBJ Sammiches Bento (158)

December 14, 2007 Sandwich

I’m at home all morning with Baby Girl as she woke up with a fever. This afternoon we’re having my goodbye coffee hour at work, so I have to go in at lunchtime. The OOT forum at Allakhazam is having this nut challenge in posts, so I decided to play by doing some peanut butter [...]

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Ribeye Stir Fry Bento

May 29, 2007 Beef

As I mentioned yesterday, we ate at Outback on Sunday night and I got the very tasty rib eye steak but only ate half of it. I’d ordered it with broccoli and so took all of that home for today’s leftovers bento! I sliced some red bell pepper for additional color and stir fried it [...]

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Pork Ong Choi Bento

May 21, 2007 Pork

I weigh in today but I probably gained this week due to eating out last last Friday, last Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and yesterday. Evil, evil week!! So this week I’m going to try hard to concentrate on pure Core lunches. The bentochallenge this week is Pirates and that’s a tough one, so I’ll probably have [...]

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Kim Chee Fried Rice Bento

May 14, 2007 Chicken

After seeing some kim chee brown fried rice somewhere, I decide to give the yucky stuff another chance and make a huge three tiered bento that’s almost entirely Core.

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Salad Kit Bento

May 7, 2007 Fish

When the kids eat up all the fish I was going to pack, I decide to make a salad kit, which has a ready-to-assemble salad and a whole tier of fruit salad as well.

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Meat Loaf Garden Bento

May 1, 2007 Beef

MIL made some really yummy meat loaf last night but I found myself thinking for more than 20 minutes on how the heck I was going to make meat loaf look pretty in a bento. Much to my delight, she had a container that looked just like a bento box, so I happily borrowed it [...]