Bento Box Lunch Ideas
Make Lunchtime Fun with a Bento Box Lunch
Bento box lunch ideas let you serve yourself and your family a fun, healthy, and tasty meal.
Bento boxes let you serve meals that are divided to separate the food. Most kids like their foods separated so nothing touches. Chances are they'll eat more when everything has its own happy place!
These bento boxes are great for taking lunch to work or school. They also keep food fresher, so lunch stays tasty and fresh!
Photo of Bento Box Served in a Restaurant. Photo Credit: Blue Lotus
Traditional Bento Meal
A traditional bento meal
contains fish or meat, rice, and
pickled or cooked vegetables.
Source: Wikipedia
Bento Box Lunch Ideas
Sample Lunch Ideas
Here are some fun and delicious bento box lunch ideas to get you started:
~ Tortilla roll up (cream cheese, tuna salad, or deli meat slices), carrot sticks, loose grapes, yogurt topped with crunchy granola
~ Salami and cheese cut into stars (or other fun shape), goldfish or other small crackers, celery sticks, apple slices, 4 or 5 small bite-size cookies
~ Hard-boiled egg slices, molded rice decorated with black olives, grape tomatoes, tangerine wedges
~ Peanut butter sandwich cut into fun shape, pickles and olives, small canned fruit
Photo credit: Sakurako Kitsa / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
Fill the Bento Box with Fun Shaped Foods
Use Cupcake Liners to Serve Yogurt and Fruit
Bite Size Portions: Bento boxes are fun because the servings are divided into neat little compartments. This is especially helpful for getting kids to eat their vegetables. By cutting carrots into small bite-size portions, kids are more likely to pop them in their mouth and eat them up.
Fun Shapes: Use cookie cutters to cut sandwiches into fun shapes. Kids will gobble up sandwiches shaped like a ninja or a graduated star.
Divide and Separate to Conquer: Use a bento box with small compartments or a plate with small bowls or cupcake liners to hold portions of food.
Photo credit: Sakurako Kitsa / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
Cookie Cutters to Make Fun Shaped Sandwiches
Make Ninja or Princess Sandwiches - They'll Gobble Up!
Bento Box Lunch Ideas - Never Run Out of Ideas
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Molds, Picks, and Cookbooks for Bento Lunch Ideas
Bento Cookbooks and Food Accessories - Use Bento Food Picks and Molds for Authentic Bento Lunches
Cupcake Liners and Small Containers
Divide and Separate Lunch Items - Paper Cupcake Liners, Silicone Liners, Small Containers
Use paper cupcake liners for "dry" foods like cookies or grapes.
Silicone cupcake liners are sturdy for yogurt, applesauce, and other "wet" foods. And they're reusable!
Small containers with lids are perfect lunch boxes. Small open containers work great when serving your Bento lunch at home.
Bento Boxes Make Great Lunch Boxes
Use a Bento Box for Your Lunch Box - Separate the Food and Enjoy Lunch More
Serve your Bento lunch in a fun box. The kids will love these cute animal boxes and other colorful lunch boxes to take to school and camp.
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