Bento Bandwagon

After seeing this slideshow of school lunches from around the world, I have been thinking about how to make better school lunches for my girls. So now I'm getting on the Bento bandwagon. I'm going to post photos of pretty (and healthy, mostly) lunches for my kids, and husband too. The lunches are packed in these cute partitioned containers from Japan. I don't have Bentos, but I found partitioned containers at Target that work well. So here's Day 1 for the girls. They're both similar, but Evie's class is peanut-free, so there are slight variations.

Evie's Bento Box is a Ziploc 3 compartment container with lid. So convenient, and cheaper than some bento boxes, but large, so it only fits in her large rectangle lunch box, so there's no room in there for a drink. We'll look into other options, but for today, it works perfectly. Here she's got ham and cheese dinosaurs, carrot sticks, green grapes, and a handmade chocolate (no nuts) I made for Valentines Day. She also has strawberry & vanilla heart marshmallows.

Maisey's Bento Box separates the two sides with a lid, then folds in half and locks. What a great design! Inside are two ham and cheese dinosaurs, carrot sticks, grapes, peanut butter cookies, and strawberry & vanilla heart marshmallows.

The colors, the presentation, and the food itself should be enough to entice my girls to eat the whole thing. I hope to get them excited about what they're eating, and giving them more of a choice in what I include (within reason.

So today's lunch was a little heavy on sweets, but it's a work in progress. Progress I hope to make for the rest of the school year. If you want some more inspiration, look here, or type "Bento lunch ideas" in Pinterest.