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...
You kind of know you’ve become woefully behind in your bento blogging when you find a photo of a bento that you made six months ago but never posted. Nothing too fascinating about this one othe...
Sheesh, it’s been so long since I’ve blogged about my lunch I almost feel like I’ve forgotten how! Ever since stuff for The Hunger Games and Fictional Food picked up, I haven’...
I’ve found while that during the rare instances I pack a lunch for Baby Girl, she prefers me packing her a lunch in a thermal jar that will stay warm. I own several Zojirushi Mini Bento contain...
Last week I made the teriyaki meatballs recipe that can be found in Yum-Yum Bento Box and used half hamburger and half turkey in an attempt to make it healthier. I wasn’t all that happy with th...
I hope you all had a happy new year! My year started out pretty crappy, with the fire alarm going off, Buddy peeing the bed, Baby Girl having a fever, then later in the day I dropped an open can of t...
This week’s recommended shopping item is a red version of the beautiful 3-tiered picnic style bento box from J-List. I own the red and black version of this box and it continues to be one of my...
Growing up, we only really ate three types of musubis at parties or picnics. Plain musubi, musubi wrapped with nori, and musubi filled with ume. Even though I love ume now, I never used to like it as...
Last month, Buddy had his Kindergarten Parent Picnic activity and so I was directed to pack up lunch and come do some fun things with him. Mr. Pikko and I both attended, eating lunch in the cafeteria...
Last week, I posted a kalbi beef bento and mentioned that I should have cut the meat into very thin strips to make for easier eating. In this bento, I’ve done just that, using kitchen shears to...
If you’re looking for a nice Christmas present for yourself, Bento&Co has a really beautiful line of boxes now called Style Lunch Nature. The box is a circular three-tier box with a lid to ...
Gah, is it really halfway through December?! I’ve been such a complete slacker lately, sigh. Some exciting news for me: I was in an article in the Wall Street Journal last week for Fictional Fo...
AllThingsforSale is hosting a big bento contest and voting is now open! All you have to do to cast a vote is go to their Facebook page (Like them!) and then go to their contest photoset for the Deco ...
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 thin...
Ever since we moved to the house, all the family parties end up here and Thanksgiving was no exception. The big draw was that Mr. Pikko, whose idea of cooking involves driving to the nearest restaura...
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 wh...
Lately I’ve been feeling like something is really wrong with me. I’ve been fighting a cough for over a month and have had a wide assortment of other ailments that seem to stick around for...
Last night, just as I was nodding off on the floor while putting the kids to sleep (other parents, tell me I’m not alone), the two of them asked for home lunch for today. Buddy required I make ...
A few days ago, a nice woman named Jen Betterly emailed to let me know that they’d featured one of my very few Thanksgiving themed bentos in an article over at a cute site named Parent Map. Fea...
I’ve been going through a lot of stress lately that’s related to the nasty behavior of my children. It’s like I’m riding on this freakish roller coaster where one second my he...
Bento&Co has always amazed me with their beautiful photography. Their pure white background has actually made me think about painting one of the unused downstairs rooms totally white so that I ca...
Last year, I made a Vampire Bat Sandwich bento that had two little jack-o-lanterns made out of persimmons. This year, I’ve made a how-to video for you folks to see how easy it is to make these ...
As many of you know, I’ve been making it a tradition for myself to carve a stupidly ridiculous pumpkin each year since 2009. Okay, so it’s not a very long tradition, but it’s once a...
Yesterday I posted a picnic bento with a disgusting Halloween themed food: severed hot dog fingers. These nasty looking things are actually quite tasty and Baby Girl had no problem saying, “Can...
My family just came back from a week long vacation at Disneyland, so I’m still dealing with vacation blues while I try to get into the Halloween bento swing. My aunties paying a visit from Hilo...
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 ...
This is a bento I made last week from leftover tonkatsu. I’m calling this pork cutlet though because I didn’t have enough panko to double batter this one and it was a very thin piece. The...
It’s Friday again, which means it’s bento box day for Lock N Lock’s Happy Hour. This week, they’re putting up an adorable glass box set for baby’s lunch and snacks. The ...
Before I get to a bento I made last week, here’s a peek at Buddy’s claim to fame in Japan: Yes, it’s unbelievable, but my little man is in an iPad 2 commercial. People have been ask...
On Monday I decided it’s time to stop making myself fatter and fatter and get back on Weight Watchers. I have to admit I’m stupid and have been paying for my subscription this whole time ...
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