Pokemon Babybel Cheeses
Got a kid crazy over Pokemon? Add a Babybel cheese made into a Pokemon ball! Genius! [see full tutorial from Cute Food for Kids]
Pork Shiso Rolls
See a step by step tutorial of how to make these rolls for your bento. [from Adventures in Bentomaking]
How to Make Snoopy Eggs
Shoppingmum shows you how to make cute little Snoopy eggs to put into your bento lunches! [from Mothering Corner]
Packing a Lasagna Bento
Get tips on how to pack a pretty messy meal nicely and neatly. [from Adventures in Bentomaking]
Marukai – Pikko’s Bento Tips Part 1
Marukai’s Irasshai newsletters have been a gracious host to a three part series of bento tips from Pikko of Adventures in Bentomaking. Head on over to Marukai Hawaii’s website to see instructions on how to make this simple, yet adorable bento with pink piggies.
How to Pack a Bento #2
Continuing the series with another video. Watch how this bento was assembled on hapa bento!
Toadstools and Snails Bento Box w/ Recipes
The main ingredient in this bento box is a muffin tin mini meatloaf hiding under pepper ring flowers. Get the recipes at enslavedbyfaeries’ Toadstools & Snail Bento Box post.
Cheese Colouring Tutorial
Save time on your cheese bento decorations by preparing coloured cheese sheets! A guide from Bento Box Blog.
Tutorial: Carving Carrot Flowers
Learn the simple steps to carving three-dimensional carrot flowers, at bento zen!
Easter Bunny Bento Videos
Watch Pikko make an Easter Bunny bento. See the tutorial on the charaben and photos on Adventures in Bentomaking!
Washi Tape Food Picks
Want to learn how to make fun and colorful “flag”-style food picks at home? Head over to bento zen for instructions!
Hearts Bento
Valentines bento with heart shaped apples & onigiri. Do you want to know how to make heart shaped onigiri yourself? I used a muffin tray! Come and see at She Likes Bento.
Quick and Easy Gyoza
Have you wanted to make your own gyoza for your bento, but felt intimidated by the idea?
Making Tamagoyaki by Biggie
Not really sure how to make tamagoyaki just by reading instructions? Read a great tutorial on how to do it with step-by-step photos, along with a recipe!
How to Make Tomato Ladybugs
Ladybugs are a great way to jazz up an otherwise boring bento – and they’re not all that difficult to do with the right tools!
Learn How to Cut Kamaboko in Fan Shapes
How would you like to add a bit of pizzaz to your sliced fish cake? There’s a short video demo on hapa bento.
Speed Technique: Freezing Ginger
Wasting ginger can be pretty easy, all you have to do is forget about it for a couple of weeks and you’re done! Biggie shows us how to avoid this in her article about how to freeze ginger. Read the full article. (via Lunch in a Box, May 2007)
Pink Flower Bento
This adorable pink tulip is joined by tiny flower buddies. Read more on how to use rice molds at Bentolicious!
How to Make Your Own Charabento
Watch as Christopher Salyers, author of Face Food:The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes and Face Food Recipes demonstrates how to make a robot bento. (from Wired.com)
