Hello all! Today I would like to talk about using non-bento items in your bento. This can be a great thing as long as you are careful. You need to make sure that the item is food safe. From my experience most plastic containers that don’t have some sort of painted label or something are just fine. Things like the “attachable mini case” and the “travel mini bottle set” at Ichiban Kan are great as sauce containers. The little pump filler thing in the travel mini bottle set is also handy for filling little sauce bottles and the little spatula thing is great for scooping things like mayonnaise into the little cups. You can find lots of little containers like this in the health and beauty department in you local discount stores, mainly where they have the travel items, for really cheap. On flickr someone had posted how to use stickers and such to personalize you mayonnaise cups. You can find that here.

If you have any other tips or tricks please post them in the comments for everyone to see!

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