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Make lunch for the week – pack ahead and save time

May 8, 2013

A little planning ahead makes all the difference! Mom of two, Shannon Carino of BentoLunch.net, shows you how: “This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while, packing lunches on Sunday night for the whole week, and this week, I finally went ahead with it! F&B have a 4 day school week, which [...]

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Health Starts Here – Whole Foods and whole grains for power packed lunch boxes

April 29, 2013

My friend Sarah packs some of the most delicious and gorgeous vegan lunch boxes I’ve seen.   I was especially bowled over by the ones she shared on This Week in Sarasota. A Florida beach-lover and plant-based food blogger, Sarah recently enjoyed a free “grains” class offered by the Sarasota Whole Foods Market in support [...]

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[VIDEO] How my small business increased online sales with Fulfillment by Amazon

April 17, 2013

Here’s my story! Tickled PINK to be featured as one of Amazon’s Seller Success Stories, and super proud to be in the (video) company of  these amazing business owners – Stephan Aarstol of Tower Paddle Boards, Scott Bongee of GoateeSaver, and Cosmo Harrigan of Streamline Audio Video - we were all invited up to Amazon’s Seattle [...]

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People with disabilities and allergies find self-reliance and dignity in a lunch box

April 12, 2013

Packing lunches with Cerebral Palsy “There are many simple things that most people take for granted. Lunch happens to be one of them.” In observance of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, my friend Rose wrote an eye-opening blog post about her husband’s struggle to find a way to eat lunch on his own at work. [...]

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I really have no intention of annoying you. And I mean that.

April 3, 2013

Dear loyal blog readers, Thank you for reading my blog. This is for the many of you who subscribe to my blog updates by email. (Hopefully, you?)(NOTE – subscribing to this blog is entirely different from being a subscriber to my company newsletter, which I only send out once in a while, usually when something [...]

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What to do with bento scraps: No-waste ideas for leftover food pieces

March 31, 2013

photo: Bent on Better Lunches “Wow. That’s a lot of WASTE! Do you just throw out all the scraps?” My community of  Bento Bloggers and Friends and I get asked this question. A lot. On my Facebook wall last week, long time EasyLunchboxes packer, Lissa Kristine, posted: “What do you do with the scraps left over from using the FunBites cutter [...]

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Get EasyLunchboxes in Canada with FREE shipping on Amazon.ca!

March 26, 2013

Helloooooooooo Canada! Hate the high cost of shipping items from the USA? Well now you can purchase my EasyLunchboxes from within Canada, via my new store on Amazon.ca. Thanks to Fulfillment by Amazon, you have two ways to get FREE shipping: If you’re a PRIME member. If your cart contains $25 or more of “super [...]

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No more mama bashing, please!

March 21, 2013

OMG. What kind of a mother packs a lunch like this??!!! CHILL everyone… It’s a joke! But hey, feel free to judge if you must. Simply to make me laugh (and I did!), my good friend Lauri Fitzsimmons put together this humorously unsavory meal for her 14 yr. old son (and he totally chowed down), [...]

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Great and powerful Wizard of Oz bento lunches

March 11, 2013

Who doesn’t LOVE the Wizard of Oz? ll three of my daughters loved wearing the Dorothy outfit I originally made for our oldest, back when she was in preschool. But Julia, our youngest, wore it to preschool at least twice a week for a year. (I guess I did a pretty good job of sewing [...]

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5 Lunches to Make From Dinner Leftovers

March 6, 2013

This is a guest post by Meredith K. on behalf of ConAgra Foods and ReadySetEat. For more easy lunch and dinner ideas, visit www.readyseteat.com.   Do you ever bring leftovers from dinner for lunch the next day? They’re a great way to get the most out of your groceries, and this guarantees that you won’t [...]

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