I decided to participate (or rather, have the kidlet participate!) in the Open-Ended Art Projects posted over at Growing and Learning by Leaps and Bounds. This week the theme is Fall Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown. [Apparently the creator of that site has elected to delete thier blog. This was sudden, as they had […]
Simple bento today. Kidlet actually requested most of its contents (usually he just doesn’t really care, and is content to let me pack whatever I will). He wanted “devilled eggs” (all hard cooked eggs are deviled, whether they actually are or not ;)), muffins, pepperoni and corn. I used our Shinzi Katoh box again. I […]
This week features Bobby Flay. Now I used to really dislike him, back in the early days of the food network. I remember watching Ready, Set, Cook in the mid 90’s and rooting for whoever was against him. (This dates me, I know! ;)) I found him obnoxious and arrogant. One of us has mellowed […]
Today the Kidlet’s school is having thier annual “Run for the Arts” event. Students collect pledges, then run laps for 30 minutes and collect the funds. This money pays for additional art education / productions; this year each class is getting a visit with a local artist with hands-on fun. It’s a worthy thing. I know this. […]
I bought the nail picks a long time ago with the intention of doing a construction / Bob the Builder bento. At the time, he was really into using his little work bench, and we were watching Bob regularly. Then I saw this bento by JBDoodles, and had a hard time coming up with something […]
It was over a year ago that I first decided that I wanted to pack bento style lunches for my kidlet. I started looking at bento sites, and sought out gear. I only made 3 bentos in all of 2008 through july 2009. I found out that my son wouldn’t be needing a meal packed […]
This week I used a few recipes that I have picked up from other folks’ MPM posts. I don’t always do a very good job of noting where it came from; I snag them and stick them with my recipes. If you ever spot one of yours and I haven’t credited you, please let me […]
I’ve mentioned that I plan out / sketch my bentos before and someone asked me about that. Basically I have a three ring binder and I jot down my ideas for a bento on a piece of paper and stick it in there. Sometimes I actually trace around the box I’m going to use and […]
The other day while I was volunteering in the kidlet’s classroom, I noticed that another child used the exact same AM snack container as we did. Since they have snack outside right before recess, and the containers get dumped into a basket to be carried back inside, I figured we could end up getting the […]
As I mentioned yesterday, shy little kitten was requested, but without nori I didn’t think I could do it, so we just went with cheese. This is the tabby version of the shy little kitten I guess! Pizza cut into star shapes under the cheese kitty. Raspberries, blackberries, plum, broccoli and carrot flowers with little […]
