May 2010

The Week in Bentos: May 24-28, 2010

May 28, 2010

Monday:
We were super, super late for school on Monday, so I just threw a banana and a cup of yogurt in Wyatt’s lunch box. He ate neither.
Tuesday:

Food for the kindergartner was packed up in the OOTS Lunchbox on Tuesday. The main component was leftover sausage and tortellini soup and that went into the thermos. For [...]

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Big Meat!

May 27, 2010

I just brought home 50 pounds of meat!
50 pounds of meat??
Yes, ma’am! 50 pounds! Here’s how that came about:
A couple of months ago, I read a book called The Butcher and the Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver. Zach and I picked it up because there is a whole chapter in it about our friend, Guy [...]

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Project 365 2010: Week 15

May 25, 2010

April 9, 2010: In an act of utter insanity, I took the kids to the zoo on the last day of spring break. It was a total mad house! I lost Wyatt 2 times in the first 15 minutes we were there and the day just went downhill from there. We did get to see [...]

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Video: How a stacking bento box works

May 24, 2010

I’ve had a few questions from readers asking how some of the different bento boxes in my collection work. I know it can be difficult to get a good idea of how these guys fit together and to judge their size from the still pictures you see online, so I’m planning to do a series [...]

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The Week in Bentos: May 17-21, 2010

May 21, 2010

Monday:

The cherries are here! The cherries are here! There is nothing I like better than seeing big piles of cherries in the markets (besides maybe seeing big piles of peaches) in the late spring and early summer months. My kids? They could take them or leave them. Little nutters! Wyatt got some of the first [...]

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Project 365 2010: Week 14

May 20, 2010

April 2, 2010: Really? You don’t ever walk into your bedroom and find three cowboys hanging out on your bed?

April 3, 2010: For a change of pace, we all went to Wondercon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the day. Zach and I had never been to a comic convention and when we [...]

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