Oh, I’d love to see all the bentos in that book !

¡Vamos, Kaoko!

Yihee, internet superstar! penge book! Haha!

really really awesum!!!

I love your site

ME ME ME PICK ME!!! >:D

*bribes you with RAFA on a stick*

i want one!!!

would love to read the book!

Yey for being published again Kao! And yes, please pick me. *prays to the randomizer gods* XD

Im really happy for you, congrats again for your bentos published!
& I also wish to have a copy of this book…so using my luck for it<3

I love the Hello Kitty bento box. *swoon*

Oh, please pick me

Congrats, kaoko! ^___^

congrats for being published! Let me win please.

just a comment? like this? whee!

Oh, what an awesome book! I think I won’t be able to sleep at night without this book! I hope I win a copy of it. Thanks again!

May I have the dolls and their mini bentos too? LOL

Woot! I want that! =)

I have been reading your entries for some time now and I have to say I enjoy all of them. Congrats on being published. Your bentos surely deserve it.
Also, I’d love to get a copy of that book.

On a side note, your Pullips are really adorable.

Hi! Just say that I owe you-big time. Being a tech support agent, it meant that we are on rotating shifts, and most of the time, are doing night duties. I was happy when I was placed in the morning for 2months but the end is near: I’m going back to the night shift and that would mean one thing: Endless fried, oily food and McDonalds. Nothing wrong with it, I know, its just that it’s the kind of fatty lifestyle I’m trying to purge.

A few weeks ago, while searching the ‘net, I came across this blog. And lo and behold! Eureka! Bento! It was like the light at the end of the tunnel. I can make healthy, delicious food, and when eating at the Pantry, I have something that will make my officemates green with envy… Thank you so much! Here’s to more delicious creations! *Kampai!*

my comment: thank you.

congrats for getting published!

Wow, what a great looking book!

Congrats!

Hmm, this might be fate – my birthday is on August 5th and I would loooove to get this book…

Congratulations and thank you for sharing this celebration with us! And of course, I wish I’ll be the lucky winner, LOL!

I WANT A COPY!!!

Again, congrats getting your awesome bentos published!

*joins the fun*

what an awesome looking book! i’ve subscribed to your blog for over two years, getting nothing short of amazing inspiration for meal ideas. i haven’t been nearly as diligent as you in my meal planning, but it still is nice to look at.

Congratulations on getting published! :3 Is the book available for sale here?

I would be thrilled to have a copy of this book, and your fine examples. I’m at a lull and need a bento boot to the bum before school starts again.

Thanks.

I would LOVE this book! Are you going to tell us which ones are yours? I need some ideas of bento foods. I am still getting past the whole eating at room temperature thing.

I hope I can win a copy of this book! Congrats and more power!

Congratulations on being published! I read your blog via RSS – always so many yummy and cute ideas!

WoW! Congratulations on being published (again!)

Do they have recipes / method included? I’d love it if they did!

I would love to see these beautiful bento up close and personal, but pictures will just have to do!

*drools* That looks so cool…. Better get out my (faux) lucky rabbit’s foot.

And congratulations on getting published! I always thought your well-lighted photos should belong in one of those huge coffee table books.

Kaoko, I’m so happy that your bentos are finally getting more attention – by being part of this book! Yay for you!

i love yummy bento! oishi!

huuuuu… pick me, pick me, pick me… I wantses that book…. :3

I can’t wait to see all those bentos. I am sure there are tons of good ideas !

That looks like a great book, I’d la la LOVE to win! Please accept my entry! Yay!

I caught a review of this on Just Hungry, but I didn’t realize your bentos were included. Congrats Kaoko!!

Very exciting that some of your bentos are in the book. I’d love to be the winner of the giveaway as the book looks awesome.

congrats on getting published!!! how exciting for you.

Congrats on having some of yours in the book! It looks so cute and useful! ^_^

awesome giveaway! hope I win

Congratulations on being published–it looks like a wonderful book! :^)

I am so excited with the prospect of me winning a copy of 501 Bento Box lunches! I know the book will surely help me in fixing fast and simple to prepare, and yummy lunches for my son!

wow! I would really love to see your bento stuff in that book. I’m sure you are so exhilarated by the idea.

Go Kaoko!

Congratulations! 501 Bento Box lunches? Love to have a copy of that book.

Yehey, galing! I would really wanna see that one and make my friends envious. We’ve been waiting for so long. Hehehe.

Congratulations! Discovered your site from an online buddies’ twit. I love Bento box lunches and it would be nice to explore different recipes. Hope I win your book

I want to win this one for my mother. I have lots of Japanese bento cookbooks but they are all in Nihongo and she can’t read them!

Thanks for the chance to win!

Commenting! This would be handy for bento planning for me and future husband.

Thanks for putting this contest out!

Wow! Congratulations on having your bentos published in a book. I am just a beginner in bentos and it was this site that inspired me to do my own. Am hoping to get a shot at winning that book. Cheers to great food! More power to you

Congrats, Kaoko!

congrats!!! i’d love to have a copy

by the way, you have a collection of pullip dolls?

I love Japanese food and bentos are really cool.

Oh, wow, I would want to have this book, & be more inspired to make my own bento!

Ooo! I would love to win a copy! I hope the book will be sold in Manila too, would make a good gift.

I want this book! How do you decide teh winner then?

well I’ve been visiting your site since I joined
the krispy kreme I really enjoy seeing your
designs on bento and appreciate how you make
those foods on lunch boxes more delightful…
I’m inspired to do my own designs everytime
I have time to make my baon and my officemates
are so amazed ! wish i could win ..^_^

The books looks really helpful

Thanks for the great contest! And congrats on having some of your bentos published. I always thought it would be fun to tell people that you are published, or have been published…or whatever.

i love kitchen cow!

PLZ I WANTZZZ YOUR BOOK SO BAD I CAN FEEL IT CRAWLING IN MY SKIN.

pick me! btw, congrats!

Just found your site today. Excited to learn more about bento and to try making my own soon!

This book would be perfect for those school lunches starting in September! Thanks for the giveaway.

I want the book! let me win, please

yes! i just love contest!

here’s keeping my fingers crossed for the bento book

I’m enthusiastic about learning bentos with the free book hehe

Congrats on being published!
That book looks like a really fun read!

Omg, congrats!!

wow, congrats! and thank you for sharing your blessings to us. no wonder, you’re such a blessed person because you keep on spreading the joy and love to others. (just like the one in krispy kreme contest :>)

what’s inside the book? i haven’t seen one. I hope i could have one so that i could prepare baon to my kids.tnx

-drool- If the cover looks that nyummy I’d love to see the inside >w<.
Congrats on getting a copy i hope you enjoy!

Me likey! I just love to eat in bento boxes!

Your dollies are sooo cute with their big eyes!

I’d be so happy to win this book!

Yay! I’d love to see what this book looks like:3 They doesn’t have it at the biggest library of my town, and it’s a little bit expensive for the student I am XD

And congrats for your bentos to be in it, you deserve it

congratz po….
ganda po regalo yan sa kaibigan ko
mahilig sa bento ! sana swertehin aq
goodluck for me ! ty

Wow Kaoko!

You’re there, congratulations!

I just love bentos!

I hope to get the book!

I want the book badly!

Let me win it plsssss

I’m really new to Bentos and the book sounds amazing. Congrats on having some of your ideas included.

Wow, sounds like an awesome book!

My daughter is a fussy and picky eater. Bento boxes would be another great way to entice my preschooler to eat well.

Where can I buy a Data and a Suzu?

All the bento people that I love are in that book!

I’ve known about bento for a while but lately I’ve decided to make the plunge and become very dedicated to it. Not necessarily authentic bento, but the concept of it with a western flair.

I’ve decided to eliminate high fructose corn syrup from my diet. This is not an easy thing to do because everything from ketchup to bologna, Worstershire sauce to yogurt has high fructose corn syrup in it. That means I’ll be making a lot of things (like shrimp cocktail sauce) from scratch.

Bento seems the direction my packed lunches will go. I won’t be buying a lot of fast food anymore. As long as I’m going to be making my lunches, I might as well go further and make them into art. Or try. I’m sure I’ll get better with time.

Lucky for me I *love* rice. But I won’t be giving up bread. However I may be baking my own because…you guessed it….some bread has high fructose corn syrup in it.

I’ve bought a lovely, red, bowl-shaped bento and will start off with some artistic salads, either lettuce based or fruit based. And I’ll be making my own dressing from scratch too. Yes, you guessed. Check the ingredients on your bottle of dressing.

I’m searching for blogs and websites on Bento and will be adding this one.

As for the book, boy could I use it.

Oh wow, congratulations on being featured in the book! I’d love to be the one to get it – I’m trying to pack lunches for myself and my partner to enforce healthier eating habits.

It’s really awesome! I want it badly. I really want to have that one! I love reading books. It will be very helpful for me in preparing foods. I really love eating. The book will be convenient to me and for the rest of my family because it will guide us on how to make a food that is healthy and yet delicious.

that’s a nice lookin bento book. lemme win ^-^

i hope & i pray…i know down inside u r mine…& i’m ur true LASS..

(a song for the 501 bento box lunches)

more power to your blog…

love to have this book!

nice book , very useful to all especially mom like me, i wish i have one..:-)that will be very helpful to me to prepare food for my 3 student …more power and congrats!!

Oh that would be awesome getting this cool book. Need to get more inspirations for bentos – and in Germany it’s sometimes hard to find this kind of books ^_^.

In one of the scenes which I happened to watch in Boys over Flowers, Jhandi was preparing a lunchbox meal for Ju Gyun Po and was spicing it up with some cute stuff here and there. It has caught my fascination instantly but I had no idea that what she was actually doing was the famous art of bento making which has originated in Japan. Until, I chanced upon the Kitchen Cow site which reinforced my love affair with it. It has introduced me with bento making tools and techniques that I could use to do a version of my own bento box for the joy of me and my entire family.

Keep up the good work and I look forward to learn more on bento with this site and more freebies as well for everyone’s enjoyment. God bless!

thats a good one:) i want it.

Omg! I discovered your site at the same time I started doing yoga! To good food and to good health! Kanpai

whoah! cant wait to get my hands on it and start browsing!!!!

I would love to have that book so even if I don’t win here would like to thank you for making me aware that there is such a book. Goodluck to me!

hmmmmm… interesting site and book! i might get hook to either one of the them, or probably both! nyahaha! have a great day!

Getting married this October and urgently need food inspirations like these to impress and surprise my hubby with! =)

i love that 501 bento box

i hoe i win it for my friend whose addicted to all things korea especially boys over flower

this one is a must have for anyone like me who loves collecting a rare item such as this.it’s very cute.

Oh, this book would sure come in handy when I run out of ideas on what to make!

Grats Kao!

I wish I can win this book.It will be a great surprise for my gf.ty

haha i like the dolls better but the book will do =P

i thought your giving away the doll.it looks like you don’t focus to the thing your giving away.you must put the lunchboxes in the center of the picture or in front of the doll not beside them

Yay I want

count me in please!

ooh oohh!!! me!! me!!!

congrats for being published Kaoko!… and I hope I’ll be lucky to win the book

We need this one before school starts in September – both our teens don’t like sandwiches!

congrats on being part of this fab bento book! mabenta ka! hehe.

i hope i win!

surely wanting to have it & be needing badly, promise!! hehehehe!

I got hungry all of a sudden =)

wow! congrats! hope I could win.

congrats for being published!

hi kao-san~ congrats on being featured! ~~

Wow, this is one great prize!! Hope to win… ;D

I like to enter.Hoping to win too!!!

oh, i’d love to have that book now that im here in hot,hot,hot Doha..

would love to win the book!

Oh wow, that’s awesome! I wantses it! Gimme ittttt!!!

So, wait. I read that right, yes? You’re included in the book? Congrats, kao!!! Pa-autograph lol

omg congrats on your bentos being published in the book, how awesome!

wow! cool giveaway, pls include me!

Hi! I’m Faith from Singapore..chanced upon your bento website whilst searching for bento ideas online…I just started out making bentos for my family and my boyfriend. Would love to have the book to make reference to! Been searching Singapore’s bookstores for it, but to no avail. Hope you can pick me (and hopefully autograph for me too)! Thanks! ^^

hi.. where do you order the dolls?
so cute. ^^

Awesome! How exciting! I also like luckysundae too!

Can i have a copy of this book?

It’d be a great help preparing my son’s baon!

Thanks and More pOwer!

nice book!!! – and nice to have!!!

I’m considering doing bento business in the future. I love looking at those beautiful food treats!

@Nikki
BALIW!

@magnetic_rose
*will not be bribed* But throw in Ikuta Toma and my personal copy is yours

@Mrs G
Mini-bento not included, sorry

@Jenny
Hehehe, can’t! My dollies will kill me if I raffle them off

@fangli
I’m not sure. I hope it will be. *crosses fingers*

@ness
Yes I do! I have 10 Pullips / Taeyangs / Dals so far. “They blog” on http://dokidoki.kitchencow.com Do you collect too?

@ajay
Good old Randomizer.org

@Lady E and jempress
I buy most of my dolls online or whenever someone travels to Singapore. Your best bet would be Pullipstyle if you’re in the US or from various sellers on Ebay if you’re in Asia. If you’re in Singapore, there’s an actual store there called Magma Heritage, but you have to call them in advance to let them know you’re coming. For Europe, there’s Plastic Pop. I’m sure the exact URLs will show up in Google

@badapching
I was hoping people would actually read the text as well, instead of just look at the pictures, so I didn’t feel the need to do as you suggested. I like taking photos this way. For me, it looks more interesting. My apologies if you found it misleading, but I don’t think I’ll be changing my style anytime soon.

IKUTA TOHMA?! deal! he’s pretty easy to stuff in a box, compared to say — ROGER and RAFA.

hi! i want 501 bento coz i really want to try something different!

I’d love to get a copy of that book!

Congratulations on being a part of a published book! Wow!

I want it, I want it!! Thanks for the giveaway~

I need this. Am getting married soon and I’m running out of ideas for hubby-to-be’s lunches…

Arigato! …in advance.

can i have it please?

hey!, i would love to see all your great bentos and would surely love to taste it.

I am searching for recipes for my kid’s lunchbox and from a link of onigiri recipes I visited your site by chance. I am really amazed at bento recipes and decorations and would love to become the lucky person to get this book. I know about it from other websites with very positive reviews. And the cover makes me really excited to try new Japanese recipes for my kid.
Thanks a lot,

very nice book!!!

thank you so much for this giveaway!

I SO WANT THIS! BEEN LOOKING FOR MORE INTERESTING WAYS TO SPICE UP THE FOOD I BRING AT WORK!!! THIS IS SO NICE!!! CAN’T WAIT TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE CALIFORNIA MAKIS!!!! MY FAVE JAP FOOD!

I would love to have a copy of this bento book, I do have a 5 yr. old daughter who goes to school each day, and it just stresses me out whenever I began thinking of food combinations which I’d like to put in my daughter’s lunch box. So if “ever” I won this giveaway, it will be very useful for a mother like me.

Congrats on being published, the book looks awesome! I have a drawer filled with bento stuff since a year back, thanks to my good friend in OK, but have yet to make a single meal… that’s what free lunch at work does to you.. I am off to make that pledge now, it will look pretty much like yours! >__<

~I love you’re site!~

I’m new to bento-ing and I having a hard time looking for some japanese stores here in Manila. A question for you Where do you buy your supplies? As in the molds, bento boxes and etc?

Anyway, I really want to have the book so that I can be more inspired into making bentos! >.<

I discovered your site thru my daughter Ishi….she was doing searching about bento since she is into watching “Boys over Flowers” when she stumbled into your site. She called my attention coz she wants me to preapre a bento for her baon….since then we have been hooked and a silent lurker of this site.

congratulations, Kaoko, on getting your work published!

i’d love to win a copy of your book! my friend and i have been trying to imBENTO our lunch boxes (and our daughters’) since the school year started. i desperately need more inspiration. this book will do the trick. do pick me. (sheepish grin) hehe.

Oooohhh, this seems like such a great book to finally differ somehow my everyday lunches at school! I would love to win this book, count me in!

To be honest I am not really familiar with the bento book even if I am a book collector. I would like to have one though. I am not really a cooking wife material so I want to know what food recipes I can get from the book so I can prepare it for my partner when he goes to work. I don’t know things from the kitchen but I would be willing to learn in case I will have a chance and will ahve the right tools for it. Hope I will win the book. =)

must be pretty exciting! me wants that book. count me in!

wow, good thing I discovered your site! Now I can prep lunch and dinner to work creatively. My bf will be surely surprise (^_^)

wow, i like this one!!! i’d like to cook for my husband and kid

I love your site! I’d really enjoy this book.

I’d love to have this as my birthday present! ( I’m celebrating it in 2 weeks time) I may resort to blowing my birthday candles in advance so I can have my wish!!! BENTO MAKING ROCKS!:)

i love everything japanese. bento boxes are love.

Excellent idea! I have always thought that packed lunches are unattractive and “baduy” to bring in the office. But with the Bento Box concept, I’ll probably have the greatest packed lunch feasts starting tomorrow. Thanks for this post! Great blog.

i wonder if this book will show me how pack lunches that neat. : )

Congratulations! Share the love <3

Wow! This is so exciting!!! Congratulations, that book would be super useful to someone like me who is useless in the kitchen and whose son is practically begging to be a lunchbox boy instead of a canteen boy.

Wow that sounds great…I’ve been on the lookout for this kind to improve my expertise in the kitchen for the whole family. I wish it would come to me as a surprise one fine day…Thanks!

i want the book! please be mine!

My family love everything that is Japanese: anime, Ghibli, yukata and especially the food! There is a Japanese depot out here where we got our bento boxes. So far, we have not made any Bento lunches yet because I don’t know how to make one. This is even the first time I have heard that you can make 501 Bento creations. I would really enjoy doing that for my husband. I can just imagine 501 days of happy lunches for him at work. And every lunchtime he will be surprised to see a new kitchen work of art.

Wow! i would really like to try out one to make one of those cute dishes. I stumbled upon one of those sites that sells sandwich press to make shaped goodies.. so cute..
http://www.japantrendshop.com/ichi-sando-sandwich-press-p-264.html
would be fun to use that with preparing bentos

gee! I don’t have any bento books and would love this one to start! I’ve recently started preparing bentos. It’s fun!

What an incredible prize! Please enter my name in your draw. Thanks.

Wow! i love to have one! pls. pick me up. Thanks!

Wow, I’d love to have one!

Wow! this is really interesting book… I am a foodaholic and this book will really give me a new experience with food… Please, please, can I have the book.

I like the book, very interesting (and exciting)

that’s so cute! i’d love to have one of those. ive been trying japanese style cooking but it still needs a lot of improvement. i bet the book will be of great help!

It would be nice if I get to win this book because as I play with my kids with Cooking Mama in Wii, I burn the food that I cook (haha!) so this might be the one I’ve been waiting for to regain my confidence to cook again. Besides, my children love using chopsticks!

I want one.. please!!!

I hope I could win this one!
I just love foods.

I would love to win this book on bentos. I think my mom would have fun looking at it with me. I have always been fascinated by them.

I love it! I want it! I want it!!! Bento gods and demi-gods help me win this one!!!!

miss adelaide girl here really wants this book to create fabulous lunch for papa and mama for work and me of course for school!!btw i went and bought 4 bento boxes but its sitting in the cupboard untouch and this book will unleash my talent of bento boxing.hahah.=)=) xx

I really want this book! =)

Great timing as we all start to think about packing lunches again!

Waah!I’m going to be so envious to the person who’ll have that book.I love the creativity and the cuteness it brings to every food.I’m a picky eater but when it comes to an artistic bento, I’ll dash right in and say “itadakimasu” leaving the lunchbox empty and shiny afterwards.Mmm…Yummy!

Wow! A bento book up for grabs! Count me in…!! Endless thinking of winning this wonderful book may keep me awake at night…so here’s to sleepless nights and bento day dreams!

can i have a copy please, please? i’m just discovering/trying the art of bento because my daughter is so picky in her eating. i need creative “baon’ for her to enjoy food in school. and me too, need to watch my weight and control my eating bento is for me!

i would like to have the book. i hope i will win. More power to kitchen cow.

I just saw a preview of the book on Amazon.com, and from what I saw, I think that 501 Bento Box Lunches is amazing and I would love to have a copy. Might come in handy when I decide to cook Japanese.

not only is your blog a feast to the eyes, it is very informative as well. bento making is surely the ‘in’ for a healthy life.

Wow, there are some many entries on here now…hehe ^^
I like the recipes on here a lot because they’re easy to make. I’m new to making bento lunches and I showed a few of them to my boyfriend (the person I’ll be making lunches for) and he found a lot of them yummy sounding. =D

Omg, I would love to see all of the cute little bento ideas!
Sounds like a really good way to make packed lunches entertaining!
I hope to win. ^.^ Thanks again

My husband lived in Japan for 2 years and he always like the way they cook their food and how creative they are with their bento. And I think “501 Bento Box Lunches” can help me make him remember the time when he was there. Thanks you very much.

hi! i have no bento experience nor do i have bento stuff but i have recently been surfing the net for ideas in what to pack for my hubby when he works and bento is definitely something i want to try. pick me and i will definitely put it to good use =).

Halu… I came across your blog while looking at creative office lunch preparation ideas. Everything’s soooo cute and appetizing. As a new wife, I find it challenging to create healthy, delicious and aethestically pleasing lunch boxes for my hubby…. Tried one pseudo bento recently – menudillo, gallo de pinto (hubby with latin american roots) and green salad. Have bookmarked your blog to get more ideas… Your book offer would definitely sweeten the deal and inspire me more…!!! Pick me pick me.. Gracias!

Not sure if I’ve commented here before, but I would love to have that book! Congrats! *_*

How exciting! I would love to have this book! I am just starting to get into bento lunches.

I just found your site, and I am looking for creative ways to send healthy food to school for my children. I would love this book! I am in need of a lot of inspiration!

Oh cool! I’ve been looking into getting this book =D

I can’t wait until September to start my bento making hehe

Wow, that’s a really good deal to win! Something interesting to read in between breaks. *Crossing my fingers*

Wow. Your response is blowing me away! I wish I could give away more copies but short of giving away my own copy (no way!) there’s not much I can do. Thanks for participating folks! Oh, and if you haven’t joined yet, there’s still a day to go. I’ll draw the winning entry tomorrow night.

Oh – this book would be a godsend for possibly creating a lunch my stepson would actually eat beyond junk, junk and more junk!

First time I have heard of Bento. very cool site!

4 kids, 4 lunches + 6 snacks per day. Nuff said.

this is amazing! i’m new to bento so this would definitely be an inspiration =)

i love hello kitty…and your lunch box is very cute…can i have one…pls picked me….thanks and more power…

Oh!I so so want this book!!!

I don’t know if I am still on time to partecipate to this giveaway… anyway, I’d love sooo much to have this book! I started making bento a few months ago, but I have to admit I find rather difficult to choose how to fill it! I usually end up making a last-minute bento, which is not always as good as I wished… T-T But no doubt with this practice I will make better bento in the future! Well, this book would help… ^_^’
It’s a pity I discovered your blog only today… you have a new happy subscriber!

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