She now realizes she has been looking at lunch all wrong. This is not a problem but an opportunity. Like scrapbooking with food. Really, what on earth is keeping her from constructing a 6 colored lunch that looks like Hello Kitty or a Piano? Nothing but her own inertia. This revelation lead her to YouTube where she discovered this video How to Make Bento Lunch Boxes.
So now she knows. And her wooly winter hat goes off to these creative and dedicated lunch packers.
Should her octopus shaped mini sausages not turn out or her bunny ear apple fall to pieces before it reaches school she has also come across the following sites which might prove helpful in the pursuit of lunch.
My Meal Box
Lunch in a Box - Bento Resources
School Family Lunches
Eatingwell.com - Healthy Kid Lunches
Family Fun - back to School Lunches
LapTop Lunches
Parenting - Lunches
If you want to read more about the ancient and trendy (everyone in Brooklyn is doing it) art of Bento follow this New York Times link. Happy Lunching!
Photos from The kitchn, Women's Day and My Meal Box.
4 comments:
I would buy some of those Hostess Snowballs and add some frosting eyes and consider it done. My kids would probably not eat a ball of rice and it would just end up in the dog food dish anyway. They would, however, devour a Hostess "food product".
I am, of course, kidding. My kids prefer my baking over Hostess. But they wouldn't eat a ball of rice. They prefer fake peanut butter and real jelly sandwiches (with the crusts cut off) (and one wants his sandwich cut in triangles, one in rectangles and one uncut). School lunches are way to complicated. Really.
oh my gosh, those bento boxes are so precious! So Japanese. I liked all your lunch links. I looked at the parenting link and saw the "salad on a stick" idea. My daughter would love a skewer with an olive, tomato, and feta, but you know what my 8 year old boy would do with that? Turn someone into a Cyclops. I bet that skewer would be confiscated :-)
Thanks, Kate. Please let us know how it goes. New Lisa, our take on Bento is that it can be all things to all people. Far be it from us here at M4MM to be judgmental. Happy Boxing!
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