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Best Bento Lunch Boxes for Kids
Bento boxes are a great way to pack a mix of healthy and nourishing food together in one lunch box that’s convenient for work or school. Bento boxes make it easier to set up balanced meals with less effort and kinsho has bento boxes to suit all ages. Thanks to...
The Coolest Lunch! New Eco Ice Packs for Lunch Boxes
soft, flexible + eco friendly We were wishing for a more environmently friendly ice pack option at home and realized there was an opportunity to develop it! ? Our new ice pack collection is filled with cellulose gum - this is a gel that is used to thicken numerous...
Bento Boxes for Sailing into Summer
bento lunch boxes for smooth summer sailing Kinsho is based in New England and we've taken several of our bentos out on the water to celebrate the start of warmer weather! They have provided tasty lunches and snacks on beaches, boats, kayaks and in the car on the way...
Easy Bento Snack Box Solutions
simple, sensational snacks While snacking is always popular, it has taken on a whole new level during the Stay at Home orders happening across the country. One of our favorite registered dietitians, Kristin Koskinen, just posted a video with great tips for bento...
A Month of Easy Bento Box Lunches
Thinking about what to eat for lunch or snacks at work, in school, or even a "to-go" lunch after your exercise can be tiring. Our bento boxes make meal planning into an easy "grid" so that you are always aware of portions and can choose a variety of foods to pique and...
Make a Beautiful Furoshiki Wrapped Bento | video
start your lunch beautifully with a furoshiki wrapped bento Furoshiki (風呂敷) are a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth traditionally used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods.. Eating from a beautifully prepared bento box can make any lunch feel...
Bento Boxes: The Secret to Mindful Eating?
Our founder Heather recently was recently published on the popular FitBottomedGirls blog. Read on for a new perspective on how your kinsho bento may help you enjoy your lunch even more! Bento Boxes: The Secret to Mindful Eating? You’ve likely heard a lot about eating...
Best of 2019 Bento Boxes
happy 2020! May your new year be filled with fun times + tasty lunches! Looking back at the most popular 2019 Instagram posts from our feed and places we were tagged showed a few themes worth taking into the new year. See the photos below and think about these ideas...
Holiday Bento Lunch Box Inspo
winter holiday bento box fun! Enjoy bento lunches that are both healthy and festive! Check out the easy ideas below... Try a green and white theme with an assortment of healthy ingredients. See how even simple shapes and adornment can conjure a holiday feeling. (Go...
Introducing our New (cute!) Bento Box with Accessories
We saw all the posts on Instagram where moms were using cute bento accessories in our boxes. So we decided to create our own kit! Details: Includes: 5 food picks, 3 silicone cups, veggie cutter. Also has custom fitting spoon and fork utensils and link to download...
Bento Tips to Balance your Holiday Feasts
finding holiday equilibrium With the feasting season upon us we wanted to share some tips on how you can eat your with your bento to help balance your appetite given the many treats and festive meals coming up. kinsho is the self-knowledge and intuition gleaned from...
Welcome to our New Medium Bento Box
We absolutely love our new medium size bento box! It's wonderfully adaptable for different appetites and works for adults or kids. The "nearly" square shape makes it feel especially fun to eat from. It's a great bridge size between our Large and MINI boxes and we hope...
Halloween Bento Lunch Box Ideas
Halloween bento box fun! Our customers are a creative bunch! Check out some easy fun Halloween bento lunch ideas below! Visit us on Instagram @kinshokitchen to see the most recent bento box creations for every season!
Autumn Bento Inspo
HELLO autumn Moving from the season of beaches and bbqs to apple picking and wooly sweaters brings a change of appetite. Get curious and use your senses to notice what autumn smells, looks and tastes like as you create your lunches. How do you note your hunger...
8 Farm-to-Bento Lunches ~ Hamptons Style
Seasonal, Local, Artisanal + Sustainable We were extremely excited this summer to support Chef Jason Weiner (of L&W Market, Bridgehampton NY and Almond Restaurant, Flatiron NYC) in his quest to provide kids at the Hayground Camp in Bridgehampton seasonal, local...
The Most (and Least) Appetizing Colors
We have heard many times the benefit of eating a variety of colors to consume multiple nutrients. Yet we don't hear much about what colors people prefer to eat. Understanding what we naturally like (and dislike!) can help develop strategies for healthier meals. Its...
100 Bento Lunch Inspirations
bento lunch box Inspo As they say, a picture is worth one thousand words, and we agree. Sometimes seeing other people's lunches can spark fun ideas. We have many happy kinsho bento customers who have composed lovely lunches and tagged us on our Instagram page. We just...
How to Eat the Rainbow – Guest Post!
Today's post is a guest article from Kayla Kaplan. Kayla is a Master’s Candidate at Tufts University in Food & Nutrition Policy & Programs with a focus on Nutrition Innovation & Communication. In addition to being a graduate student and dog mom, she is a...
Why Kids Love Kinsho Bentos + TIPS
Kids love bentos! Cute boxes filled with colorful food arranged in neat compartments helps make lunch the best part of the day. We’ve also heard these comments from customers about their Kinsho bentos … kids love KINSHO BENTO BOXES BECAUSE... ¤ Different foods do not...
Award-Winning Tips for Creating the Best Bento Boxes
bento box best practices Creating bento boxes has a long history in Japan and is now popular throughout the world. The above slides are an excerpt from the 108 page eBook Kinsho Tips + Eats which is a free gift provided to our customers. The content was created by our...
6 Lessons from Sloths for Mindful Healthy Lunches
Slothes are cute and know how to live an easy, relaxed life. While creating our Sloth Lunch Bag with matching bento box we realized they can also teach us a few things about mindful eating... un-distract while eating Not much to do in those treetops where they spend...
Summer Bento Lunch Ideas
Summer brings a welcome break to our regular lunch box routine. Picnics, beach days, hiking, road trips, and patio eating are the order of the day. Feeling the sun on our arms and tasting the extra flavor or fruit and veggies fresh from the garden underscores that...
Tips for a Kinsho Bento Mindset
The process of creating your bento can be mindful, relaxing and creative when you set the stage with great ingredients and infuse presence and intention into the process. Here are a few tips to help. Prepare your Mind Prepare to prepare. Sometimes the simple act of...
Roadmap for Bento Prep Success
Ready, Set, BENTO! We're always looking for good (efficient!) advice on prepping healthy lunches that leverage the form and function of our bentos. Kristin Koskinen, RDN has wonderful content on her site EatWellPros outlining her best practices specifically for our 6...
3 Bento Box Meals from a Holistic Nutritionist
Since you or your kids will be looking forward to enjoying the colorful contents of your new bento boxes, here are some healthy, tasty ideas for filling them from Kristen Ciccolini, a Certified Culinary Nutrition Expert and Holistic Nutrition Coach. (and my local...
Lunch Bowl Recipes: Video by “Entertaining with Beth”
We were thrilled that Beth, a hugely popular video recipe blogger, found our Bento Bowls and featured them in her Back to School recipe video. Find her tasty recipe demos through this link! Enjoy!
Love Tastes Better + Bento Pumpkin Balls
Kinsho was founded to help people better connect with their food and themselves. We hope this tip helps you create enlightened eats! ? LOVE MAKES FOOD TASTES BETTER Yes, research shows mom's chicken soup tastes the best. Food that we believe has been prepared with...
Kinsho 101: Cultivating kinsho
We all have kinsho– the self-knowledge and intuition gleaned from our many food experiences. We access these insights by paying attention. Practicing moments of purposeful attention increases our awareness of what we normally gloss over in our multi-tasking, on-the-go...
Prompting your Enlighted Eats
Busy Your enlightened eats start with tuning into meals with your full attention. This means quieting thoughts and engaging wholly with the food that you are about to cook and/or consume. But this focused awareness is not the norm. Researchers say we think...
Examples of kinsho
Your kinsho, the new awareness and flashes of insight that will come to you when you pay more attention around food, will be uniquely personal. Your calm curiosity will help you go beyond assumptions to uncover truths about preferences, urges, or perhaps where areas...