Fun with Food
Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under Food |
As a work at home mom, it´s hard to find ways to be creative sometimes. But it´s very possible with food and that´s where I´m really enjoying doing these days. 
Here´s what I´ve been up to . . .
This was a fun face made out of refried beans and carrot salad with slices of boiled egg white for the eyes. Dorian loved it.
A quick and easy bento made with tomato salad in the little dish, watermelon chunks outside and lattice-cut carrots. The little sauce bottle has watered down balsamic vinegar in it.
This was an undersea bento I made for Dorian (today, actually!), using leftover blue-green chow mein noodles as a base and torn bread for the sky. The rocks are chunks of avocado and the fish and various other critters are made up of pepper and carrot, except the jellyfish, which is a lime.
This is a mini (2″ square) version of the undersea bento above, made for Dante. The idea was that he would have his own to eat. It didn´t work. He grabbed Dorian´s and dumped it all over the couch. :S
Here, I tried to do an octopus (multiples . . .octupi?) from sausage, but they didn´t curl up like the ones I´ve seen in photos. Oh well. They were devoured at any rate. Though you can´t really tell, I cut bread into animal shapes and toasted it. Then I spread a bit of butter and sprinkled them with cinnamon sugar. The penguin spear has slices of plum on it.
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Those are awesome! That is such a great idea, and I am so impressed that your kids will eat such a variety of stuff! Grant will, too, but it takes a battle to get Grayson to eat anything these days.:(
OMG!!! They are awesome!! You should be proud of those creations… If I had a meal like that served up to me, I would eat it… but then again, L tends to burn anything she cooks, so it would be me that would be doing it
Those looks wonderful! I wish I have kids to pack lunches for. I’m not sure my man will find it as cute opening his kindergarten packed lunch in front of his workmates. Haha.
That face is absolutely adorable - my kids would love it! How did you make the eyes blue? Is there some crazy egg dying method I don’t know about?
Laura, I just used a fingertip to dab blue food coloring on the egg.
Genesis,
Very creative. I think “bento” means lunch, no? If not, please tell, lol.
Thanks for visiting me and helping out with your repsponse to my question about picky eaters and lunch.