I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese. 
Fancy rice cooker & Ms. Bento lunch jar giveaway
Want to try your hand at winning a super high-end rice cooker or one of twenty-four free Ms. Bento thermal lunch jars? Here’s your chance. Ajinomoto and Zojirushi are putting on a joint promotion through November 9, 2008 that gives away three two-bowl Ms. Bento thermal lunch jars a week for photos of your best packed lunches, and one very fancy 5.5-cup induction heating (IH) rice cooker to the best of the weekly winners. The Ms. Bentos run around US$40 and the induction rice cookers start around US$300, so this is some nice loot to try for.
The contest allows one entry a week per e-mail address (U.S. residents only), and you can resubmit entries that don’t win in the previous week. Details are at their Lunchbox Photo Contest website. Read the fine print, though. Be aware that by entering, you give them permission to use your lunch photo in marketing and advertising without future consent or payment. (Disclaimer: I have no commercial affiliations with Zojirushi or Ajinomoto.)
Also, a reminder that this is the final week for entries in Lunch in a Box’s free giveaway of a four-bowl Mr. Bento thermal lunch jar I used in testing for my detailed thermal lunch jar shootout review, pitting it against the Nissan Thermos lunch jar. Leave a comment at my separate giveaway post by Sunday, October 5, 2008 with your favorite dish that you’d pack in the Mr. Bento, and you have an even chance at winning. These and other packed lunch contests and blog events are updated on my Lunch Blog Events page. Hats off to the Ichiban Kan store blog for the heads up on this contest.
FURTHER READING:
- Thermal lunch jar shootout review
- All “thermal lunch jar” posts on Lunch in a Box
- Hot vs. cold lunch packing considerations
- Product Reviews on Lunch in a Box
- Bento FAQ and Top Speed Tips
October 1st, 2008 | Categories: equipment, giveaway, thermal lunch jar | 
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October 1st, 2008 at 4:11 am
I’d give it a try.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:21 am
Either of these items would happily be used at our house…. LOVE the Ms. Bento!
October 1st, 2008 at 4:37 am
OH! That is a dreamy rice-cooker!
October 1st, 2008 at 4:45 am
Hi Biggie! I guess I messed up and submitted my comment for the contest entry twice. Do you know of a way to delete the first one?
Sorry, and thanks!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
Haha, I was totally about to post about this contest, I picked up a flyer at the Mitsuwa in San Jose and scanned it
October 1st, 2008 at 7:04 am
@4 from Angela: I’ll go ahead and delete your first comment; thanks for the heads up.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:42 am
I love your website!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
OH me two things ive been lusting over!
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi Biggie - this is not related to the contest, but I thought I’d let you know that you made it into the Detroit News on Tuesday - they picked up the article from the Washington Post on packing kids lunches. Congratulations!
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Sorry, forgot to include the link on my first comment!
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
@9 from Nicole: Wow, thanks for the link, Nicole! I had no idea that the Washington Post article about kids’ packed lunches & bento ran in the Detroit News — exciting stuff! I’ve updated it on my Press & Awards page.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I’m trying to find cute condiment containers that are EASY to open (and don’t leak). Do you have any recommendations? I bought some super cute ones-http://shop.iloveobento.com/products/apple-dip-container but sadly they’re nearly impossible for me to open - let alone my kindergartener. I don’t have any shops close by so that means I have to order my bento supplies online. Do you have any reviews on condiment containers?
Thanks for any help. By the way, I LOVE your blog!
October 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I would love to get one of this fantastic items.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Hello,
I just wanted to share my joy of being one of the winner of the 3rd Week with one of my bento picture! I am so happy! So feel free to vote for my butterfly bento… (I am French and recently moved to Boston, and after winning one of these Ms Bento thermal lunch jar, I decided to add a link for an English Translation of my bento blog, so English-speaking friends just click on the link “Fiquo bento in ENGLISH” in the right-hand menu).
October 15th, 2008 at 11:38 am
@14 from Fiquo: Congratulations on winning one of the Ms. Bentos! I’ll add a link to your bento blog to my Lunch Links page: http://lunchinabox.net/links/
October 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Ah, guess I’m out then. I’m a student so pretty much all I ever pack are rice or noodles with edamame or eggs. Good luck to those who enter though!
October 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am
@ Jo
I am also a student you know. Just put your rice and edamame and eggs in a nice way in you box, take a picture and post it! You never know…
October 17th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
HI,
Like your bento ideas.
October 19th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Thanks for the heads-up about the contest, I just entered! This is a great bento, and I’d LOVE to have that rice cooker.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:49 am
@19 from Amanda: Good luck in the contest, Amanda — hope you and others are able to win good gear!
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
good luck to all whose entering