Kelly Lester's Blog, page 16
December 7, 2012
Pack a little Hanukkah inside your lunch box
This is a guest post by my friend Sarah of Bentoriffic. – Kelly As early as my daughters could speak and understand a bit of holiday cheer, we began reading books about Hanukkah and playing with dreidels (decorative wooden tops) at our house. I say this because we are a Christian family. My children have [...]
December 3, 2012
Cheap and Effective Babyproofing for Chairs and Table Edges
My brother Howard is the proud father of a beautiful baby girl named Danica. She’s walking now, but it wasn’t long ago that she was just learning to sit up. She wasn’t always able to hold herself up, and sometimes fell over to the side, or worse, backwards, into chair legs. Now, as a new [...]
November 27, 2012
Opp! PSY Gangnam Style Goes Bento with Panda and Piggy
Ok, I will readily admit that I’m probably living under a rock. Or maybe under a YouTube radar NOT pointing at what the biggest viral hits are. The Double Rainbow craze was enough to put me in an “I don’t need to know” state when it comes to what’s “hot”. But leave it to my [...]
November 26, 2012
Giveaway! CuteZCute Animal Friends Cutter Kit for Lunches
Go from boring food to cute food in seconds! The CuteZCute kit turns regular lunch food into fun food in just a few steps. Stamp or cut bread, lunch meat, cheese, veggies, and more with this all in one tool. Created by my good friend JeeJee, owner of BentoUSA, the best bento supply store I know of. [...]
November 22, 2012
Thankful and Grateful for our Lunch Packing Community
I had no way of knowing that, when I started EasyLunchboxes in late 2009, it would be because of YOU, my amazing friends, followers, customers, ambassadors, lunch box lovers, bento bloggers, i.e., the community we’ve all created, that we’d be reaching so many people, inspiring and encouraging folks to pack fun and healthy meals. The [...]
November 9, 2012
How to keep bento and cute lunches neat until lunchtime
Around Halloween, when I posted an amazing collection of Halloween-themed lunches, the first comment I got was from long-time reader Alison who had been dying to ask her burning question: “What do they look like by the time your kids open the boxes? We homeschool, but once per week I pack my ELB for them to [...]
November 5, 2012
Support for Sandy
As I sit in my sunny home office writing this post, I am reflecting back to January 17th, 1994 when I was jolted out of bed by the devastating Northridge earthquake at 4:30 in the morning. In the pitch black chaos I somehow flew, barefoot, over downed picture frame glass shards to reach my infant [...]
October 31, 2012
First for Women Magazine Features EasyLunchboxes
In Los Angeles, one of our big grocery chain markets is Ralph’s. I’ve been shopping at the Ralph’s on the corner of Winnetka and Ventura since I was a kid. My parents live up the street from it, the high school I graduated from is across the street from it, and now I live down [...]
October 30, 2012
Easy and Affordable One-Dish Dinners from the $5 Dinner Mom
So it’s no surprise that my favorite word is EASY. But when you find something that combines EASY with my other fave word- AFFORDABLE…. well… BINGO!!! Putting dinner on the table for $5, and doing it easily, is Erin Chase‘s specialty. With 3 kids and another on the way, this busy mom REALLY knows how [...]
October 26, 2012
Halloween Lunches: How-to Edition
Scroll down for all the links if you want to learn more! Leave it to some of my lunch packing and super crafty friends to come up with all kinds of adorably edible Halloween ideas! You’ll want to check out the below links to find out how you can make the above. Pictured above: Quick [...]
