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Play lunch with Lego-style bento boxes

Play lunch with Lego-style bento boxes

Do these look familiar? While looking for a fabulous new lunch box to suit the personality of my new school pupil I stumbled across these gems.

Lunch box lift with Bento Colors

Lunch box lift with Bento Colors

Your children will never know what it’s like to find a squashed stale sandwich wrapped in greaseproof paper at the bottom of a school bag… at least, that is, if you choose to let them near this bento inspired lunchbox instead of hogging it for yourself.

Update – new Shinizi Katoh bento boxes, tape and clocks at Monkeytail and Wellington

Update – new Shinizi Katoh bento boxes, tape and clocks at Monkeytail and Wellington

Bringing classic stories to artful bento boxes for children, Shinizi Katoh’s new arrivals at Monkeytail and Wellington will make the most beautifully functional Christmas presents. Look at the double-decker Snow White and Alice in Wonderland boxes – they’ll carry a full meal for a growing body and be a wonderful story piece for summer picnics.[.....]

Christmas Prizeapalooza day 37 – Lunch Boxes With Love starter pack

Christmas Prizeapalooza day 37 – Lunch Boxes With Love starter pack

Never send your child to kinder or school with a boring lunch again! Come and see what we have up for grabs in today’s Prizeapalooza.

Japanese bargains aplenty at Daiso, Melbourne

Japanese bargains aplenty at Daiso, Melbourne

There’s a new store in Melbourne that’s causing a wave of kawaii-mania.

A great idea for lovely lunches

A great idea for lovely lunches

My daughter started school this year, and I have to say I am finding making lunches a bit of a drag. So this clever little lunch set could be the answer.

Eggs with love

Eggs with love

You may have missed your Valentine’s Day opportunity to dish up these adorable heart-shaped eggs but that doesn’t stop you serving breakfast with love every other day.

Spooky but fun food for Halloween

Spooky but fun food for Halloween

Halloween is about the food as much as the craft and dress ups and we’re loving the Halloween Whoopie Pies  (see our editorial about the Whoopie Pie craze) over at Martha Stewart and the gorgeous Boo-tiful Halloween Cake at I Am Baker. Also see fab cookie recipes and a heap of easy Halloween food ideas[.....]

Babyology explores Japan – toy stores!

Babyology explores Japan – toy stores!

Japan has the most fantastic toy stores of anywhere I have ever been. I recently visited Japan for three weeks with my three and four-year-old daughters and we spent a lot of time in toy shops, although some seemed more for adults than kids.

Lunch boxes with an edge

Lunch boxes with an edge

When it comes to filling the kids’ lunch boxes I try hard to follow the VENBNOTT principle (Varied, Enjoyable, Nutritious But Not Over The Top) but after a few weeks of the school term, lacking inspiration, I often fall into AVS mode (Another Vegemite Sandwich). Lunch Boxes With Love could be the answer to keeping[.....]

Visit PlanetBox for lunch boxes with space age style

Visit PlanetBox for lunch boxes with space age style

With many schools moving toward a ‘wrapper-free’ lunch box the challenge for parents is to find a box with the right number of compartments. How hard can it be? Well, it is. I know some kids who find a sandwich, an apple and a biscuit is what they need to get them through the day.[.....]

Off to daycare or school? They’ll need food storage!

Off to daycare or school? They’ll need food storage!

… and you’d better make it cute! The vessels your child’s food comes packed in receives attention from peers and gets knocked around endlessly over the course of a school year.

Healthy food ideas – books for lush lunch boxes

Healthy food ideas – books for lush lunch boxes

They’re at school, the year is young and for now, the trusty sandwich will do its job. You’ll have to get a whole lot more creative as the year goes on as kids are notorious for tiring quickly of boring basics.

Kawaii For You – cute comes to town

Kawaii For You – cute comes to town

I’m more an incredibly enthusiastic admirer of all things Shinzi Katoh and of the Japanese ‘cute’ invasion rather than a die-hard fan. But I will admit to being just a little excited when I crossed paths with the new Australian Kawaii For You website.

Put some zakka into your life

Put some zakka into your life

  For the uninitiated, ‘zakka’ is Japanese for ‘many things’. Zakka is a design phenomenon that has influenced everything from tomato sauce bottles and sunglass cases to fabric patterns, art and film. But not everything that is kitschy and cute qualifies as zakka. To be truly zakka, your thing, whether it be a stapler or[.....]

Perfect for tiny chefs ñ the Wooden Sushi Set

Perfect for tiny chefs ñ the Wooden Sushi Set

I can’t be bothered to actually make sushi at home, what with the quality and quantity available at the local Japanese restaurant. I sometimes toy with the idea of buying the mats, the seaweed, the wasabi and trekking down to the fish markets with a toddler… Hmm, I really think I’m much better off with[.....]

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