2 World Health Day and Cookbook

Today is World Health Day, and Future Fortified has published a The Right Start Cookbook, which has some great recipe ideas.  Here are 24 healthy recipe ideas for the kids, including one from yours truly as well as from some of my BBF friends! Check it out, it's a free download!

"Future Fortified is a public awareness campaign of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). We enable individuals, businesses, and organizations to help millions of women and children around the world access to the essential nutrients they need to lead healthy, enriched lives." 

6 Bento #262 - Gyoza & Bell Peppers and Trader Joe's cookbook news!

First of all, I am so incredibly excited to announce that the cookbook I am featured in -  Cooking With Trader Joe's Cookbook: Easy Lunch Boxes - is now available for pre-order on Amazon! In fact, if you click "Look Inside" and check out the table of contents, Bentobloggy is listed on pages 157-162!! 

Just LOOK at this gorgeous spread!

Next, today is the very LAST day to enter for your chance to win the bento box starter pack I'm giving away, so enter here!

As for today's lunch, gyoza is the perennial favorite around these parts.  The brand we normally buy is Ling Ling all-natural chicken potstickers.  The sauce is in those cute flower sauce containers.

We also have sliced red bell pepper with ranch dip and frozen organic mixed berries.

The newly decorated Goodbyn Bynto!  Ella went all-out!

Bento #262 - Chicken gyoza with sauce, red bell pepper, ranch dip and organic mixed berries.

3 Summertime News

I'm here!  I've been on a hiatus since school ended, as you might have imagined.  Things are kind of crazy 'round these parts.  We've been traveling - Rochester, NY to Toronto, and then a crazy long road trip we just returned from to Maryland, NYC, upstate New York, Vermont and back down again!

I'm going to post a short series about our travels to each place.  I will talk about live blue crabs.  And s'mores.

In other exciting news...Miss Ella is going to be a big sister.  For real!  It's going to be kind of wild having two kids almost 7 years apart.  Ella is over-the-moon excited about her new role, and I know she's going to be a great helper.  Thankfully, I haven't been nearly as sick as I was with my first, but first trimester fatigue was sucking the energy right out of me.  Just another reason I haven't been posting - I've been sleeping pretty much the whole time.  I'm waiting for that fabled second trimester surge of energy.  Any day now hopefully....

I've also finished up the final edits for my recipes in the new Trader Joe's cookbook! I'm so excited!

From EasyLunchBoxes:

"Cooking with Trader Joe's - Easy Lunchboxes will be available in Sept. of 2012, wherever books are sold! Gorgeous full-color photographs by Marla Meridith. With mouth-watering recipe contributions from over 30 of my amazing lunch-packing and foodie friends! Now really, who doesn't love Trader Joe's? More info: http://bit.ly/K2iLY3"

I have some new bento plates and recipes to post soon! I hope you all are having a fabulous summer!