Bento Box Fever!

[Linda in San Diego]

Ooops forgot to say, my almost 15 year old daughter is enjoying lunches like these too. It so undoes the whole sandwich trap and is more interesting and more filling!

Earlier this week I baked some chicken legs to include in our lunches. A little brown rice, a chicken leg, carrots and peas rounded out my lunch nicely.

 

[ninjapoodles]

It sounds to me like they have less than a half-hour for lunch. Which I don't really understand, for such young children. What pressing engagements do kindergartners have that they can't take time to eat their lunch? And their lunch period includes time spent standing in line for trays or milk.

Here's a question about packing lunches for little ones:

Do any of you put notes in your child's lunch? I keep meaning to start doing that, and then forgetting. I put one in tonight reminding her to buy milk (she forgets to get a drink if I don't pack it), and added, "I am proud of you!" on top.

I just like the stories that my now-adult friends have of parents leaving them notes in their lunches.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Linda, a chicken leg is genius! Why didn't I think of that? Thanks!

Your tuna/cabbage salad sounds really good. How do you dress it?

 

[SandraMort]

i loooove the concept but am lucky to find time to make sandwiches...

 

[Henrietta23]

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I'm still offline but the computer should be finished the beginning of next week. Aaarrrg!
Anyway, I've brought a couple of lunches myself this week and got a mixture of raised eyebrows, and "oh how cute!" and "mmmmmmmm! will you pack my lunches?" Alex has been on a lunch strike too, picking at this and that. He says he doesn't have time also. I think he is too busy socializing!
I sent him to school with a sort of note today. It was a small gala apple that he picked himself last weekend, in a small white paper bag. I drew an apple on it and wrote, "Happy Johhny Appleseed's Birthday!" Maybe he'll eat a little more of the apple today. : )

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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You think that's bad. I lost it not once, but twice!

She's beautiful, Ninja! And, you take great pictures as well!

 

[blue90292]

i found this site. it's from the hot dog company in japan whose hot dogs (weiners) i ate as a kid. i know ya'll can't read it but if you click on the blue letters, it'll show the step by step tutorial on a pop up window, of how to cut the hot dogs. and the section peices are stuck together with dry spagetti noodles as sticks. i'm definitely going to try my hand at making the shark for my boy. LOL

http://www.nipponham.co.jp/recipe/lunch/kazarigiri/#winny09

 

[ozark hen]

np, your Bella is sooooo beautiful. she could be a model if not now then when she grows up.
since I had to tell my sis about her b/d gift(since it will be delivered all wrapped up in a Japanese newspaper with no english explaining what the Bento box is) and gave her a link to this thread....she has read this thread and is so excited about getting a bento box now. Thanks all. My dh's bento lunch box is coming this coming Wed. I cannot wait to use it and make his lunches in it.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

blue90292 -

That hot dog link was awesome! There were so many cute designs there and with the pictures, it's pretty easy to figure out how to make them.

Thanks!

 

[Jolyn]

Where do you get the molds for the hard boiled eggs? They are adorable!!