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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 16:37:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>announcement</category><category>bento of the week</category><category>weekly food meme</category><category>guest tutorial</category><category>inLinkz</category><category>needed</category><category>tutorial</category><category>food coloring</category><category>vote</category><category>sidebar poll</category><category>bento</category><category>anything goes</category><category>rice</category><title>Bento Blog Network</title><description /><link>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BentoBlogNetwork" /><feedburner:info uri="bentoblognetwork" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>BentoBlogNetwork</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-999293313867155953</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-30T00:00:12.808-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Time to Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-kid-created.html"&gt;Kid Created&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 1 vote per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-999293313867155953?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/lHEALZqRdKQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/lHEALZqRdKQ/time-to-vote_30.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/time-to-vote_30.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-5482649938475728145</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-31T11:01:23.432-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW May: Kid Created</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thanks to everyone who linked up and to everyone that made suggestions for upcoming themes! Congratulations to Kathy of Eclectic Lamb for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://eclecticlamb.com/2012/05/17/marionette-bento/" target="_blank"&gt;Marionette&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 35 Theme: Kid Created&lt;/b&gt; This is the last week of our May Challenges. The theme is Kid Created. Link any bentos you've posted that were created by your kid. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your photo. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: School's Out&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-5482649938475728145?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/f6KW3ikRNWE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/f6KW3ikRNWE/botw-may-kid-created.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-kid-created.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-8655735736496385503</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T00:00:04.000-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Time to Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-kabobs.html"&gt;Kabob&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-8655735736496385503?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/IVK-Bx201xY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/IVK-Bx201xY/time-to-vote_23.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/time-to-vote_23.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-8094688738885979020</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-18T14:28:54.876-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW May: Kabobs</title><description>Thanks to everyone who linked up last week! Congratulations to Rina of Bento School Lunches for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://bentoschoollunches.blogspot.com/2012/04/bento-lunch-273-birds-nest-cups.html" target="_blank"&gt;Birds Nest Cups&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 34 Theme: Kabobs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; It's time for our May Challenges. The third week's theme is Kabobs. Link up your best looking bentos that were made with sticks of food or kabobs. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Kid Created&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vx5uzidjiQk/T7OgU00Tf0I/AAAAAAAAK9o/SRw2L1cQ2e8/s1600/suggestions.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vx5uzidjiQk/T7OgU00Tf0I/AAAAAAAAK9o/SRw2L1cQ2e8/s1600/suggestions.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Please leave comments on this post or the previous one with your suggestions for themes over the summer! Thanks!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-8094688738885979020?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/nbfz1_9z-kw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/nbfz1_9z-kw/botw-may-kabobs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vx5uzidjiQk/T7OgU00Tf0I/AAAAAAAAK9o/SRw2L1cQ2e8/s72-c/suggestions.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-kabobs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-3125583124098167183</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-16T07:41:36.446-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sidebar poll</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Vote &amp; Suggestions Needed</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-leftovers.html"&gt;Leftovers&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vx5uzidjiQk/T7OgU00Tf0I/AAAAAAAAK9o/SRw2L1cQ2e8/s1600/suggestions.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vx5uzidjiQk/T7OgU00Tf0I/AAAAAAAAK9o/SRw2L1cQ2e8/s1600/suggestions.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Please leave comments with your suggestions for themes over the summer! Thanks!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-3125583124098167183?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/oMoeb1NctMs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/oMoeb1NctMs/vote-suggestions-needed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>7</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/vote-suggestions-needed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-8925750155033168867</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-11T21:12:16.360-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW May: Leftovers</title><description>Thanks to everyone who linked up last week! Congratulations to Yenn of Bento Makes Me Happy for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://bentomakesmehappy.blogspot.com/2012/05/bento-no-71-smiley-face-bento.html" target="_blank"&gt;Smiley Face&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 33 Theme: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leftovers&lt;/b&gt; It's time for our May Challenges. The second week's theme is Leftovers. Link up your best looking bentos that were made with leftovers. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Kabobs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-8925750155033168867?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/DauAGZ1fx1A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/DauAGZ1fx1A/botw-may-leftovers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-leftovers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-9165656567708952057</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-09T00:00:03.615-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Voting Time!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-no-cheese.html"&gt;No Cheese&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-9165656567708952057?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/GhNbMn2H-KI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/GhNbMn2H-KI/voting-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/voting-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-1902232811379932876</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-04T10:28:09.341-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW May: No Cheese</title><description>Lots of creative, out of the box bentos were linked up last week. Congratulations to mamaDhiNar kitchen for getting the most votes for her&lt;a href="http://mamadhinarfun.blogspot.jp/2012/05/angry-bird-bento.html" target="_blank"&gt; Angry Birds in Egg Cup&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 32 Theme: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;No Cheese&lt;/b&gt; It's time for our May Challenges. The first week's theme is No Cheese. Link up your best looking bentos that container NO cheese. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Leftovers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-1902232811379932876?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/EzVFpMOhO8g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/EzVFpMOhO8g/botw-may-no-cheese.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/botw-may-no-cheese.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-4143529947944049668</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-02T00:00:00.604-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Time to Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-alternative-containers.html"&gt;Alternative&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-4143529947944049668?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/GiR7xuXA5OM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/GiR7xuXA5OM/time-to-vote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/05/time-to-vote.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-4834279971776023252</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-27T15:16:48.508-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW: Alternative Containers</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Earth Day Link-Up. All the submisisons were FANTASTIC!! Good job! Congratulations to Media Goddess of My Favorites Captured for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://myfavoritescaptured.blogspot.com/2012/04/bento-of-week-earth-day.html" target="_blank"&gt;Earth Day&lt;/a&gt; bento. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 31 Theme: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alternative Containers&lt;/b&gt; This week's theme is Alternative Containers. What I mean by alternative is a container that is not designed for lunch/bentos. This requires a little thinking outside the box. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that is housed in an alternative container. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: No Cheese&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-4834279971776023252?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/a04xcFbG7Ys" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/a04xcFbG7Ys/botw-alternative-containers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-alternative-containers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-5555550038445050358</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-25T00:00:06.498-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Earth Day Vote</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-earth-day.html"&gt;Earth Day&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-5555550038445050358?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/6yMfQ7X1PTw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/6yMfQ7X1PTw/earth-day-vote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/earth-day-vote.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-174219816680377476</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-20T08:21:08.444-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW: Earth Day</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Spring Link-Up. Congratulations to mamaDhiNar for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://mamadhinarfun.blogspot.jp/2012/04/beautiful-spring-bento.html target="_blank"&gt;Beautiful Spring&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 30 Theme: Earth Day&lt;/b&gt; This week's theme is Earth Day. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that is related to the earth. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Alternative Boxes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-174219816680377476?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/Un7rHqzAcEw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/Un7rHqzAcEw/botw-earth-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-earth-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-5503925092466641469</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-18T00:00:08.862-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Please Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-spring.html"&gt;Spring&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-5503925092466641469?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/gCd6PQP_9Y4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/gCd6PQP_9Y4/please-vote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/please-vote.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-1996498972887958851</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-13T12:20:48.731-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>BOTW: Spring</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Easter Link-Up. Congratulations to Kristie of beneficial bento for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://beneficial-bento.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-bunny-bento.html" target="_blank"&gt;Easter Bunny&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 29 Theme: Spring&lt;/b&gt; This week's theme is Spring. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that is related to Spring. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Earth Day&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-1996498972887958851?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/eEbwOM6RDxg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/eEbwOM6RDxg/botw-spring.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/botw-spring.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-5445516505103139804</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-11T00:00:12.252-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Time to Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/bento-of-week-easter.html"&gt;Easter&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 3 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-5445516505103139804?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/iRxxoouE8GQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/iRxxoouE8GQ/time-to-vote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/time-to-vote.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-9075574637174035695</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-06T13:02:48.976-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>Bento of the Week: Easter</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Animals Link-Up. Congratulations to Yenn of Bento Makes Me Happy for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://www.bentomakesmehappy.blogspot.com/2012/02/bento-no-31-piggy-bento.html" target="_blank"&gt;Piggy&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 28 Theme: Easter&lt;/b&gt; This week's theme is Easter. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that is related to Easter. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. You are invited to link up your Easter bento at &lt;a href="http://www.dianarambles.com/2012/04/thematic-thursday-13-easter.html" target="_blank"&gt;Thematic Thursday&lt;/a&gt; too!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Spring&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-9075574637174035695?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/XhSwgB_0yew" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/XhSwgB_0yew/bento-of-week-easter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/bento-of-week-easter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-6852066822134682309</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-04T00:00:05.149-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Vote for your favorite Animal!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-animals.html"&gt;Animal&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 4 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-6852066822134682309?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/liaRi4QrQuQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/liaRi4QrQuQ/vote-for-your-favorite-animal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/04/vote-for-your-favorite-animal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-9154686035287718281</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-30T10:36:44.100-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>Bento of the Week: Animals</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Birds Link-Up. Congratulations to Michelle of Creative Food for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://creative-food.blogspot.com/2011/08/larry-turtle.html" target="_blank"&gt;Larry the Turtle&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 27 Theme: Animals&lt;/b&gt; March is Animals month and the final theme is all animals. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has an animal in it. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted before. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Easter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-9154686035287718281?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/8mwZqhvpjfg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/8mwZqhvpjfg/bento-of-week-animals.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-animals.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-4233840222647910980</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-28T00:00:01.341-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Vote for your favorite Reptile!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-reptiles.html"&gt;Reptile&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-4233840222647910980?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/RVX3U_m6LhU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/RVX3U_m6LhU/vote-for-your-favorite-reptile.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/vote-for-your-favorite-reptile.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-8293494051682325825</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-23T09:32:57.350-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>Bento of the Week: Reptiles</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Birds Link-Up. Congratulations to The Princess and the Tot's mom for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://theprincessandthetot.blogspot.com/2012/03/fun-food-friday-5.html" target="_blank"&gt;Scarlet Macaw&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 26 Theme: Reptiles&lt;/b&gt; March is Animals month and the fourth theme is Reptiles. The reptile family includes turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles and alligators. You can see a full list &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptiles" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has a reptile in it. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: All Animals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-8293494051682325825?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/jp4Y-Zir9as" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/jp4Y-Zir9as/bento-of-week-reptiles.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-reptiles.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-6881469718930186723</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-21T00:00:01.670-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Vote for the Bird BOTW!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-birds.html"&gt;Bird&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 3 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-6881469718930186723?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/IkcDBKYsV6I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/IkcDBKYsV6I/vote-for-bird-botw.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/vote-for-bird-botw.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-6942768039091691465</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-16T10:41:48.761-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>Bento of the Week: Birds</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's BOTW Dogs Link-Up. Congratulations to ika_mamaDhiNar for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://mamadhinarfun.blogspot.com/2012/03/puppies-on-bus.html" target="_blank"&gt;Puppies on the Bus&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 25 Theme: Birds&lt;/b&gt; March is Animals month and the third theme is Birds. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has a bird in it. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Reptiles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-6942768039091691465?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/WVKocFOrXwE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/WVKocFOrXwE/bento-of-week-birds.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-birds.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-5940475795088381923</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-15T13:11:58.510-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Voting Time!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-dogs.html"&gt;Dog&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 2 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-5940475795088381923?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/0F0ni-hGhEQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/0F0ni-hGhEQ/voting-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/voting-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-7705046563734379077</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-09T07:39:41.641-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bento of the week</category><title>Bento of the Week: Dogs</title><description>Thank you to everyone who participated in the Bears theme Link-Up. Congratulations to Rina of Bento School Lunches for getting the most votes for her &lt;a href="http://bentoschoollunches.blogspot.com/2011/10/beary-happy-10-10.html" target="_blank"&gt;Beary Happy&lt;/a&gt; bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and she gets a special blog button announcing her win!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Week 24 Theme: Dogs&lt;/b&gt; March is Animals month and the second theme is Dogs. Please post the direct link to any bento you've created that has a dog in it. You can post&amp;nbsp; more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week. Please grab one of our buttons, visit other participants, and leave them some love (comments)! Full guidelines on this meme can be found &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/p/bento-of-week-meme-guidelines.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Next week's theme: Birds&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-7705046563734379077?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/w-2kTwfAqdk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/w-2kTwfAqdk/bento-of-week-dogs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-dogs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326930389630110616.post-2829221651234798507</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-07T00:00:09.943-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Time to Vote!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s1600/BBN-vote.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's time to vote for your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/bento-of-week-bears.html"&gt;Bear&lt;/a&gt; bento. I have enabled 3 votes per person (IP). You cannot vote for any  you  submitted. Anyone can vote whether they submitted a link or not, so  feel  free to invite friends &amp;amp; family to vote. Voting goes until   11:59pm CST on Thursday. The bento with the most votes will be the   featured blog of the week beginning on Friday. Scroll down to vote!   Instructions for how to vote can be found &lt;a href="http://the-blogger-tutor.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-vote-with-inlinkz-linky.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2326930389630110616-2829221651234798507?l=www.bentoblognetwork.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~4/xmsUKSST0oE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BentoBlogNetwork/~3/xmsUKSST0oE/time-to-vote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Diana - FreeStyleMama)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH1gdYfEbbk/TovEG84nizI/AAAAAAAAIYY/VT0BcXbaXg8/s72-c/BBN-vote.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bentoblognetwork.com/2012/03/time-to-vote.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

