One Year Bento-versary and Giveaway!

like you i love daiso! love love daiso a lot. i’ve been visiting ur wonderful blog for a few months now. my kids would eat anything and not picky eaters so i count myself lucky. thanks so much for inspiring best of luck.

happy 1st bento-versary!

My son LOVES it when I add a bag of raw almonds to his lunch box.

I LOVE your blog! The most unusual lunch my daughter took when she was in preschool was steamed crab and shrimp. Out of the 3 of my children, she eats anything! LOVE IT!

Wow, Happy Anniversary! I must say we don’t really eat anything unusual at lunch. I love sushi but my kids won’t touch it. My daughter loves pickles ALOT! My son finally started eating cream cheese on bagels which is a little more variety for him! What a fun giveaway. I can’t wait until I get to go to a Daiso someday!!!

WooHoo- happy anniversary!! your bento posts are what originally brought me to your blog 4-5 months ago! I love all things kawaii & bento! Big thanks for an amazing collection of ideas, inspiration & photos-& not just for lunch, but for all the MOM stuff– you’ve helped me with your insights & ideas tons of times! i love all the game & toy reviews too! my daughter is also 4 & starting Jr. K in the fall, so i’ll be packing daily bentos soon too- so please keep the inspo comin’! love it here!! {{GIANT HUGS}}

for the contest: we make Polnina- a Slovak potato pie (we eat it in beef soup) it’s great cold the next day & it would pack great sliced up like your tofu. that’s the most unusual thing she eats! LOL! we’d love to win some goodies!

can you please post another link to how you prepare your baked tofu & which brand(s) type(s) you use? thx! it always looks so good!

My little guy is only 6 months old, but I’ve been reading your blog since I was pregnant to get inspiration for his preschool lunches someday. One food he does like at this young age is avocado. Since he’s just a little guy, I don’t do anything with it other than mash it up, but I personally enjoy my avocados sprinkled with lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper. Hopefully he’ll have similar tastes to Mommy one day! Thanks for your great inspiration and happy bento-versary!

I have to start by saying I am so envious of your ability to put foods together. I also would like to hire you to fix MY lunches!!! I love your blog….

I have a 15 month old and strive to give her healthy food, however it is all prepared around convenience. Sad. Being a working mom, it is hard to get food on the table for the hubby and I but Ella always has a well balanced meal. She loves food and even though she is a little bean, she has the appetite of a bear! The most unusual thing Ella eats is probably pickled anything..I say that meaning if her daddy is eating pickled okra, so is she! I would love to some of the cute Bentos to get my food imagination flowing. Can’t wait to come back to see what else you have put together…

My 5 year old daughter loves to dust almost any food with either Adobo seasoning or lemon or lime juice. She also loves garlicky foods, and she loves bleu cheese, gorgonzola, feta, and lots of other ‘grown up’ cheeses. Of course, she loves pizza and mac and cheese and peanut butter too.

I don’t know if I have anything too unusual for lunch, and my first child is still on the way (23 weeks along!). I guess the most unusual is when I bring leftover vegetable sushi that we make at home to lunch. It’s fun pulling out the chopsticks and soy sauce at work!

Those bentos and supplies look awesome! I wish I lived closer to a Daiso store!

Bubble Tea! my daughter and I love bubble tea. Other than that….my lunches are way too normal.

So cute!!!

My 4 year old son’s unusual penchants are as follows… loves sucking on lemons ,eating calamari and eating popcorn with chopsticks……..but he refuses to eat jelly (as in PB&J) which i find strange for some reason! Oh well, better for him.

Thanks for such a sweet contest!

I’ll jump on your bandwagon…my oldest (16)loved cabbage and broccoli raw as a toddler and refused mac and cheese. Still the same to this day. The little one(4)likes almost everything except babybel cheese and her first solid food was crab and her favorite snack is nori-unseasoned-that I cut in strips or have left over from onigiri. Happy Blogversary!

congrats Wendy! I guess I have been reading for about a year now. But I do not own any Bento items. I guess the strangest thing my kids eat is jalapeno popcorn. It is Daddy’s favorite thing and not my favorite at all, but the kids love it! I hate when my hubby makes it because it burns my throat. Valerie

Wow! Just a first time reader here! Love all that you got going on.. Foods.. Just lost 30 pounds, so I am all about chicken breast and veggies now! Hugs, Mandy

We really don’t eat anything that i would call weird. We found a bread maker on craigslist for a steal just before the holidays and have had it working non-stop! We make sandwiches and paninies out of whatever is hanging around the kitchen. Lots of veggie and cheese combos usually, we’re almost entirely meat free now a days. For budget and environmental reasons. Those Bento supplies are uber cute and i could see so many wonderful combination’s of goodies filling them up! Hope to win!

wendy, this is fantastic! I’m looking forward to starting some bento boxes for my kids. My little ones start preschool next year and the older one would love to have a fun packed lunch occasionally. I’m a bit behind and admit I hadn’t heard of bento boxes until I checked out your blog. Very creative and inspiring.

wendy, this is fantastic! I’m looking forward to starting some bento boxes for my kids. My little ones start preschool next year and the older one would love to have a fun packed lunch occasionally. I’m a bit behind and admit I hadn’t heard of bento boxes until I checked out your blog. Very creative and inspiring.

Happy anniversary! and thanks for thinking of your loyal visitors lol with such a fun idea sharing your love of bentos. awesome.

ok weird food: My daughter loves baby dill pickles dipped in ketchup, and she loves to pour a little of her milk into her … applesauce (so, so gross I think). and I’ve caught her more than once dipping into the butter dish with just her finger lol.

by the way, i love love LOVE your bento blog entries. I’ve even turned my friends who don’t have kids into reading your blog! My 5 yo picky eater starts kindergarten in the fall and I was researching kids’ lunches and lunchboxes when I stumbled upon your wonderful, guilty pleasure of a blog. Thank you so much! I live in Colorado, so no stores I’m aware of here (so far!) and would love to score some bentos for my daughter. Thanks for thinking of us!

LOVE your blog!! Bento boxes are so awesome and thanks for inspiring me to do more fun things with them than jamming a sandwich in there. I’m totally adding you to my blog reader thing! The strangest thing we eat? Onion bagels with strawberry cream cheese off the top of my head…we had blue cheese/bing cherry/chicken wraps the other day. They were yummy, but we got a lot of gag faces from friends.
Crossing my fingers and toes we win!!!

I’ve really enjoyed going through your blog and seeing all of the wonderful bentos you’ve made! Wow! I suppose the most unusual foods taken (and eaten) in bento have been the omelettes my husband makes. He pretty much takes whatever leftovers he can find in the fridge and throws them into eggs. Tortellini pasta with avocado? Every cut veggie with salmon? Why not. Amazingly his combos are not only edible but usually taste pretty good.

I love your blog, Wendy. I’ll link it on my Facebook. Arlen really likes to eat hot n’ sour soup, sushi, (especially with caviar), and mochi. There’s an asian theme there, I think. But he doesn’t like more usual things like chicken. Sigh. He’ll even eat seaweed that’s used for sushi (nori) just raw and crispy! I hope I win!

Hi Wendy!

I’m a new reader of your blog and a huge Bento Fan myself. I love your great photos, your creative ideas and the inspiration you give others. Plus your oh so cute kids. It’s a real pleasure to read it and I come here almost daily.

The most unusual food… I had to think about that for a while. The favorite treat of my step son are frozen banana slices which I cover with a little chocolate before I freeze them. I put this in his bento every now and then and he loves it as a special treat.

Our most unusual food to eat at home is a fried egg over a bowl of spagetti with tomato sauce. Most people find that gross *lol* but not the two of us.

I don’t think that is very unusual, but maybe we are just not so creative eaters

I will go on reading your blog and I must admit, I’m some kind of your biggest fan

-Enny

Hi Wendy!
I’ve been quietly following your blog for a while now, and your fantastic bentos have got to be one of my favorite things. I’ve really been trying to work on loosing weight lately, so I’ve started packing my lunches to take to work with me, but let me tell you, you just can’t get too excited over a crumpled up brown paper bag. I was eating fast food like two or three times A DAY at least 5 days out of the week, cause it was just so convenient and tempting to just drive across or down the street to the dozen or so fast food places that surround my work. But since I started packing my lunch, I’ve gotten down to maybe two or three times a week eating out. And I can just imagine how awesome it would be to open the fridge at work and pull out one of those cute little bentos and enjoy a great lunch.
Now then, my mom never really packed me anything strange when I was a kid, but like a year or so ago, my best friend turned me on to cheeto puffs dipped in peanut butter. Sounds gross, but is sooooooo gooooood.

I think the strangest thing my daughter eats is Hot Dogs with ranch dressing… She loves it.. Love your site.. always such inspiration. Have great night

Oh! My daughter will be attending a new daycare this summer and we have to pack her lunch every day. THis is something I’ve NEVER done (she’s only in Kindergarden) so I LOVE this idea! Just found your blog today!
Okay – we eat peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwhiches. YUMMO.