Holiday Lunch Menu #5 & FREE Shipping

Here's another holiday bento photo for your enjoyment. What do you think??? What creative holiday lunch ideas have you come up with? Post your ideas and comments here.

Holiday Lunch Menu #4 & FREE Shipping

We hope you're finding time this weekend for a bit of rest, relaxation, and quality time with family and friends. Want to create a fun bento lunch next week?

This is the fourth of seven holiday bento lunch photos that we're sending your way this holiday season. We hope it provides you with some end-of-the-year lunchmaking inspiration!

Holiday Lunch Menu #3 & FREE Shipping

This is the third of seven holiday bento lunch photos that we're posting this holiday season. We hope you like it -- and the FREE shipping too!

Best Kids Lunch Box Award from SheKnows.com!

The results of the 2010 SheKnows.com Parenting Awards have been revealed, and we’re thrilled to announce that Laptop Lunches has been named the 1st place winner in the Best Kids Lunch Box category! This award is a huge honor, and we are so excited to share the big news with all of our fans, followers, and supporters!

The SheKnows Parenting Awards were created to recognize parenting products and services that are most valued by today’s consumer. The awards were broken down into 100 different categories, covering everything from gifts to gadgets and kids lunch boxes to home & living. Each SheKnows Parenting Award nominee was carefully reviewed by the SheKnows.com team of editors and handpicked for quality, functionality, and convenience, so it was an honor just to be considered for this coveted award!

The winners of the SheKnows Parenting Awards were determined via an organic online voting process that was open to the public. Once we learned that our Laptop Lunches kids lunch box had been nominated, we reached out to you, our community, and asked for your help to spread the word and cast your votes. Now it’s time for us to say a big Thank You SO MUCH to everyone who responded! We sincerely appreciate your support!

More information about the SheKnows Parenting Awards is available at SheKnows.com. Check out the results of the Food category, and scroll down to see Laptop Lunches in 1st place for the Kids Lunch Box subcategory!

What’s Your Bento Lifestyle? We Want to Know!

We’re still buzzing with excitement about our recently redesigned website, especially the addition of our new Bento Lifestyle pages! We created these pages with all of the members of our community in mind -- students who bring lunches to school, adults who pack Laptop Lunches for work, families who take bento box meals when they’re out and about, diners who pack take out food in our reusable bento containers, and everyone else who has made the choice to live the bento lifestyle!

New Bento Box Lifestyle Web Pages

Whether you use your bento box to pack healthy, waste-free meals for School, Work, Play, Travel, Take Out, or anywhere else your life takes you, we have a Lifestyle page for you. Each Lifestyle page offers relevant information and tips about how you can use your Laptop Lunches bento box. Plus, our Top Picks gallery makes picking the right bento box a breeze! For each lifestyle, we’ve got pictures of Laptop Lunches bento options, pricing information, and direct links to our online store.

Check Out These Bento Box Lifestyle Pages:

• School Bento
• Work Bento
• Play Bento
• Travel Bento
• Take Out Bento
• Everywhere Bento

To access our new Lifestyle pages when you visit the site, simply go to LaptopLunches.com and click on any of the Lifestyle headings beneath the Good. Simple. Fun. animation box.

Share Your Bento Box Stories

We want to know… What bento lifestyle are you? How are you using YOUR Laptop Lunches? Post your comments here!

Best Kids’ Lunch Box Voting is Over – Thank You!

The voting period for the 2010 SheKnows Parenting Awards has officially closed, and we just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone who voted for Laptop Lunches in the Best Kids’ Lunch Box category! We truly appreciate your support, and we are keeping our fingers crossed as we await the contest results, which will be announced in October.

We know how busy and hectic everyone’s lives are, especially around back to school time, so it really means a lot to us that so many of you took the time to vote Laptop Lunches for Best Kids’ Lunch Box. The community of people that believes in our goal of helping families pack nutritious, low waste lunches is so important to us. We want all of you to know that we are working as hard as we can to continue creating high quality bento lunch box products and accessories.

Lastly, we were truly excited to see so many of you, our Fans and Followers, helping to spread the word about our nomination and letting us know you voted via Facebook and Twitter! We loved reading every Tweet that used the #Vote4LaptopLunches hashtag on Twitter and all the comments you left us on the Laptop Lunches Facebook Page!

Thanks again everyone!

How to Make a Bento Box

Looking for some lunch box inspiration this back to school season? Check out this very informative video. Love it!

Laptop Lunches on Good Morning America

Did you catch Laptop Lunches on Good Morning America? If you missed it, you can view the segment here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/back-school-lunches-11413269

A big thank you to Catherine McCord at Weelicious.com!

Two New Bento Sleeves from Laptop Lunches!

We've just added two new bento sleeves to our Web store at http://secure.laptoplunches.com/AMAZING/items.asp?Cc=CARRIERS&Bc=.

Designed to keep food cold, these bento sleeves are great for carrying your Laptop Lunches Bento Set in your backpack, brief case, or travel bag--and they're made with 100% post-consumer recycled fabric, printed with soy ink!

Check them out and let us know what you think!

Klean Kanteen Drink Bottles Pair Nicely with Laptop Lunches Bento Lunchboxes

We're pleased to announce the addition of Klean Kanteen brand reusable drink bottles at www.laptoplunches.com.

Please check them out when you have a moment! We've got five color options that pair nicely with our new bento kits.



We're very excited about this new addition!