June 2008

The Week in Bentos: June 24-27, 2008

June 27, 2008

This was a pretty good week for Wyatt’s preschool bento boxes. For some reason he was in the mood to give new foods a chance and he ate a lot of the things I was sending for the first time.

Tuesday I sent peaches, dried blueberries, chicken taquitos and a little thing of salsa to dip [...]

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The Week in Bentos: June 17-20, 2008

June 20, 2008

Here are the bento boxes I sent Wyatt to preschool with this week:

I was sick Tuesday morning, so Zach let me sleep in and made Wyatt his very first bento box: banana yogurt, chicken sausage and pretzel thins.

Another chicken sausage on Wednesday, along with strawberries and a little teddy bear shaped onigiri (rice cake). Wyatt [...]

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Recycled Notepads

June 17, 2008

I’ve been looking for some crafty, fun ways to be a little greener over the last few months and here is one of my recent projects.
I am super bad about creating and printing Excel documents at work. No matter how careful I am, I frequently insert a bunch of extra rows and columns beyond the [...]

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The Week in Bentos: June 10-13, 2008

June 16, 2008

Here’s what I sent for Wyatt’s lunches last week:

Apricots, apple bar, strawberries and a half a leftover burrito. This lunch went over very well. I wasn’t sure if he would eat the burrito because I packed it cold, but he ate everything except the apricots.

Watermelon (it was a very hot day), salami, the last of [...]

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Cedar Rapids Flood

June 13, 2008

This is what downtown Cedar Rapids — where my parents live and where I grew up — looked like yesterday morning. Those straight lines crossing the river are the railings of the bridges. They are completely under water now. The water is expected to crest early this afternoon, so things will get a bit worse [...]

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The Week in Bentos: June 3-6, 2008

June 11, 2008

Here’s what Wyatt had in his bento boxes last week:

Banana bread, tofu, yellow tomatoes and strawberries.

Apple chunks (dipped in pineapple juice to prevent browning) salami, harvarti cheese shapes, pretzel sticks.

More banana bread, chicken sausage and catsup, pretzel sticks and grapes.

Strawberries, hotdog bun (a particular favorite) and salami.

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