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Flower Basket Bento!

I love flowers, and to celebrate Colorado finally coming out of the winter of snow boogerdom, I packed my little one a low glycemic load lunch, complete with sammiches, grapes, carrots and bananas, shaped like little flowers.

The bread is from Sarah Lee, and it is called "45 calories and Delightful"

With only 1 gram of sugar per 2 slices, each sandwich's worth of bread, net, is only 14 carbs (18 carbs, 4 grams of fiber)! This competes with Wonder Light, with its similar low-carbohydrate numbers.

It is a bit on the spendy side, at about $2.50 a loaf, but you're going to get 13 delicious, low-carb sandwiches for that price!

The bananas are cut with a fun tool I'm going to show to you. I dip the 'flowers' in lemon juice to keep them from browning. They stay perfect for lunch! I surrounded the 'garden' with the plastic grass (you can buy this from Bento sellers)(I reuse mine--it's hand-washable).

You can use nori to cut little faces or centers for the flowers, but I used a small dab of frosting (less than a carb for all of the flowers). You could also use small bits of fruit or a dab of jam to complete a peanut butter sandwich!

In the other layer, I placed a healthy cracker in a cute cupcake liner (she probably won't eat it, but I told her she has to take 1 bite), some carrots, full-fat dip, and a few grapes. You can see space in the bottom of the bento (that's a nono. Food should be packet tight, so that it won't shift!--I am in a hurry this morning.)

I always keep a bunch of construction paper hearts in the Bento and send her a little note every day. I fold the napkin like an envelope and insert the note!

Happy Easter Bento!

I am a bad blogger!

I am sososososo sorry. Today I'm going to try and make it up to you by feeding you lunch today in honor of bunnies delivering eggs they horked from unsuspecting chickens day.

Top photograph: Bunnies with faces painted (I use those cute little gel tubes you can buy in the cake aisle at the store. They last forever). Bananas are cut into cute little flower-stars and then dipped in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown. Look at them, hiding in the grass behind the bananas! Aren't they adorable? (OK, well the one on the right looks like he has a nose bleed).

Bottom photograph: Mostly utterly non-healthy and lacking in any imagination whatsoever. Only carrots are good for you, and colorful goldfish could be said to have fictional-beta carotenes.

Cute food for Valentine's Day!

Top: Wilton Cake fondant cutters come in many sizes with many designs

Middle: Oopsie pizzas

Bottom: On Wisconsin! Broccoli Cheese Soup



It is Valentine's Day!

If you have to eat healthfully, eat both delicious and cute foods. Aesthetics makes more fun, especially in the winter time, when it's cold, there's snow, and you're waiting for the spring!


You can find the recipes for Oopsie Pizzas and for the On Wisconsin! Broccoli Cheese Soup by clicking the links to them!

Happy Chinese New Year! (and Bento)

Whew!

I am sorry for being gone for so long (what a bum), but I have been experimenting with low glycemic load bento foods, and this has been more time consuming than I thought!

Top image: So, here you see my cutecutecute Bento bag for the bento box! You have to pack cute if you are going to eat cute! Isn't he just adorable?

But what is inside?

Well, let's take a look! (Links to all recipes included!)

Middle Image: I packed Riced, Fried Cauliflower with Zingy Stir-Fried Chicken and Vegetables. Then I added some spicy red pepper seeds to the furikake container to the left. And of course you can never have too much of that cute, plastic grass!

Bottom image: I have Chix' Boneless Buffy Wings and Ginger Dipping Sauce in the little condiment cup (cute!!!). To the left, I have 2 Good Fortune Cookies, and in front is a cute little Babybel cheese waiting for you to eat it as a sweet dessert!

I am a bad bento blogger. *sniff*

Here I was going to faithfully keep a Bento blog, because there are so many things you can do with bento, and most of all--because it is so cute! (We mustn't confuse our priorities after all)

I rearranged my photo album online and some of the pictures went kerploofy! I now know to upload pictures from my computer and not from an online album.

I am also going to start making cute bento again!

I miss making things for my kids, and I like to look at them, too!

So, while I am busy putting pictures back in, and apologizing to you a million times over for being a bad bento blogger, please be patient and be prepared for more cute foods! Also, check the links to the right for more really amazing bento blogs! I love these people and want them to adopt me and feed my delicious bento!

My birthday is coming up! Do you think my adorable husband will buy me my own bento set?

He says "no." (sad face)

Do not worry! I do not give up easily!

Making the Big Bento Box Time!

Cool Bento Beans!

I am featured in a section of the Denver Times weekly special print edition! Ignore the bad picture of me. It's... well... me! Look, instead, at the cute food! Not nearly as cute and savory as the people I link to blogwise, but it's so much fun! I'm even on a little bit of the cover!

The editor emailed me and asked if I had bigger pictures of bento. I sent them to him and found out they were publishing the bit I'd written about being addicted to bento!

Thank you, editor!

I will make you some onigiri shaped like Hello Kitty.