January 2013

All the content on this site by month.

Attention!

Since the focus of this site is bentos for lunch, I'm always fascinated by the subject of lunch in general. An interesting article in the Washington Post appeared yesterday, about school lunches in Japan.

Bento 101: Getting Into The Bento Habit course materials and further notes

The response to the Getting Into The Bento Habit course announcement has been overwhelming! I'm really glad to see so many people interested in participating. I'm busy getting things ready now.

Reading through the comments, there may be a little bit of misunderstanding about the objectives of this course, so I just wanted to clarify them here.

Announcing the first bento course for 2013! Bento101: Getting Into the Bento Habit

Announcing a new venture on JustBento: Bento Courses.

Bento courses on JustBento

This is the top page for listing all the bento instructional courses on JustBento. All courses are absolutely free. And if you miss them when they are running 'live' you can just go back to the lessons posted and follow them on your own time.

Here's to a great bento year! Open thread for your questions and comments about bentos

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Happy New Year everyone!

The start of a brand new year is the time for resolutions of course, and many of you reading this may have made bentos part of your plans for 2013. If you're new to bentos, going through the hundreds of articles on this site might be a bit intimidating. So, if you have any questions or comments about bento-ing - anything at all - this is an open thread post for you to pose them.