Have you heard of the new sensation that is sweeping the nation?  All the hip and trendy kids are going back to school this year with Bento Box lunches.  Not really, but that’s what I told my dd on her first day of Kindergarten.  LOL  You see my dd is super picky so I am very limited on the types of food that she will eat, which makes doing a real bento very hard to do. Most consist of faux sushi cream cheese wraps or even real sushi etc.  My dd would not go for that so I just went and got a round container that has 4 sections, the middle one is a cup that has it’s own lid, and have been sending her lunch in it each day. I found out that Hello Kitty makes boxes that would be perfect and may go get some.  I bet ’A’ would love them. Anyway here is an example of what she gets (each day she has plain pasta (she hates sauce), her choice of fruit, lunch meat, and gold fish. Then she has a juice bag with it. Until today her pasta was in one of the larger sections, but she wanted it in the middle today. She also asked for more fruit, hence the strawberries and green & purple grapes.

I use my Pampered Chef creative cutters set to cut the meat into fun shapes (today’s was a flower). I love the cutters because they are smaller and I feel like I am getting more out of the meat than I would a larger cutter. They come in a set of 8 and each set contains a maple leaf, shamrock, pumpkin, apple, chili pepper, flower, heart and star. Greatest $10 investment I’ve ever made.

Anyway, so all you Bento veterans who wound up here by googling for bento ideas- am I on the right track here or have I missed the train? She did tell me that one of the teachers in the lunch room commented on how cute her lunch was and that she really liked it.