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Lunch Idea- Fall Bento Lunch

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Lunch Idea- Fall Bento Lunch

JDaniel has started to have lunch at school on Wednesday. They call it late stay at his preschool. I call it more time to work on socialization and have lunch at school. Oh! and time to run an errand after the Mentor Mom’s group ends at 11:20 a.m. I guess it doesn’t matter what we call it. We both get a just a little bit longer to get things done. Here is a lunch idea I recently made for him.
We still do muffin tin lunches at home ( I am going to feature one next week), but for school, I purchased some Easy Lunch Box containers to serve him bento style lunches. I asked some members of a bento bloggers Facebook group what container would be best and this is the one that they recommended.Last week JDaniel took the lunch above to school. I went with a fall theme and tried to include as many as his favorite foods as I could plus one that is not a favorite.

His sandwich is whole grain sandwich thins with leaf shapes cut out of it. Inside the bread is a slice of Colby Jack cheese and honey baked ham.
The upper left-hand corner compartment is filled with dried cherries,  dried blueberries, and dried figs.  They have a golden harvest moon represented by a dried apricot. We love dried fruit at our house.

I ended up toasting the leaf shapes from the sandwich and tossing them with olive and Parmesan cheese. They ended up being a little more oily then I wanted them to be. Last time I cooked leftover cutouts I fried them in olive oil and coated them with cheese. They were much better. I think I will go back to that way of preparing them.
Beneath the cutouts were small carrots. JDaniel isn’t big on raw carrots, but if I don’t send anything more fun to eat he will usually eat them. This time he didn’t the carrots returned home alone in the bento box. I am going to keep trying to put veggies in his late stay lunch. Carrots may have to go on a fall break, though.

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  1. That is one cute lunch. I’m going to have to start packing a snack for my oldest next year. I’ll have to look into the bento box while I’m back in the States!

  2. What a fun lunch…i love your fried cutouts idea…going to give that one a try…i keep trying the raw carrots too….sometimes we get a win don’t we?

  5. Awesome. I have a whole bunch of little tubs with lids that go into the cooler lunch bag. There is always a little tub with cut up fruit and one with small healthy biscuits. Then there is a small tub of yoghurt too. That’s the snack box. The lunch bag has a tub of peanuts and raisons, the sandwiches (either ham and cheese, or egg and mayo, or, if the teacher didn’t order her AVON on time, chocolate spread!) and a little tub with dried fruit.
    In from SITS.

  6. Pierce didn’t start liking carrots until this past year. Cute lunch. The twins are going to start doing lunch bunch on wednesdays this year. It costs extra, but I bartered it by offering to take pics of the classes playing and post them on their FB page twice a month.

  9. I would eat this lunch! How appealing. The cutout crouton idea is inspired.
    This is all so healthy. I don’t know how you (or he) would feel about a dollop of ranch dressing for carrot dipping? My kids loved dipping at that age.

  11. I love the sandwich with the cutouts!! My oldest son, being the little OCD person that he is, would have had freaked out about the cutouts!! I also like what you did with the bread leaves, I’ll have to try that myself!!

    -Sofia

  13. I love bento lunches. They are so cute. I try to do fun things for my daughters lunches and bought a couple containers like this so we can take them along when we go on small day trips. I can not wait to try it.

  15. Fun! I need to start figuring out some different lunches for my kids. They are getting bored with the same things everyday.

  21. Colby Jack cheese and honey baked ham? Can you make my work lunches? hahah I LOVE colby Jack cheese!

  23. Looks great! I love the cut-outs. Keep on trying with the carrots. I just gave my 10 year old son celery with peanut butter today (a snack which I am sure he has had on his plate a hundred times, but never eaten) and he absolutely loved it! Ate it like it was the best thing ever. You never can tell!

  28. great job!!!
    broxton loves carrots… no, he LOVES them… but he will NOT eat them at school… so, he brings them home and then that is his snack after school 🙂

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