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April 29, 2013
Health Starts Here – Whole Foods and whole grains for power packed lunch boxes
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 [...]
April 17, 2013
[VIDEO] How my small business increased online sales with Fulfillment by Amazon
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 [...]
April 12, 2013
People with disabilities and allergies find self-reliance and dignity in a lunch box
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. [...]
April 3, 2013
I really have no intention of annoying you. And I mean that.
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 [...]
March 31, 2013
What to do with bento scraps: No-waste ideas for leftover food pieces
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 [...]
March 26, 2013
Get EasyLunchboxes in Canada with FREE shipping on Amazon.ca!
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 [...]
March 21, 2013
No more mama bashing, please!
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), [...]
March 11, 2013
Great and powerful Wizard of Oz bento lunches
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 [...]
March 6, 2013
5 Lunches to Make From Dinner Leftovers
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 [...]
February 26, 2013
Non-Sandwich lunch box ideas for school or work {VIDEO}
Bored with Sandwiches? Tired of pb&j? Looking for alternatives? (Be sure to click the “gear” at the bottom of the video frame as it plays to watch in gorgeous HD!) Click HERE for Keeley’s delicious RECIPES. Keeley McGuire is a mama who loves making bento lunches for her daughter (peanut-free and now gluten-free), sharing recipes, her love [...]
