{ Bento } Gear + Inspiration + Kids Lunch

I would like to introduce you to a lovely piece of Bento Gear for kids lunches. The Goodbyn! The ultimate all-in-one lunch box for a waste-free lunch! Made of recyclable, and food-safe plastic. The reinvented lunch box for kids, parents and the planet. NEAT! Check them out!

Bento Lunch: Piggies in blankets with ketchup, apple slices, grapes, carrot muffin, drinable yogurt, mini ritz, and teddy grahams. Milk.

Goodbyn says:

Easy-to-open
We designed the Goodbyn line of lunchboxes to have ears or tabs at the top of the lunchbox to allow for easy opening.
Built-in handle
Easy for both kids and parents to carry!
Containers
Perfect for leftovers, apples, oranges, even a banana!
Fits stacked sandwich halves, bagel, pasta salad, chips, yogurt or cereal.
Great for dips, sauces, vegetables, crackers, nuts, berries, or dried fruit.
8-ounce bottle
Completely eliminates need for juice boxes. Pack juice, water, or even salad dressing for your salad!
Sticker set
Each Goodbyn comes with two sheets of stickers so the kids can make each lunchbox their own! 



{ Bento } Inspiration + Kids lunch

Breakfast Bento: Buttermilk pancakes, syrup cups, chunky hasbrowns, pineapple chunks, raisins, apple, grapes, teddy grahams, babybell, and mini laughing cow. Served with cereal (not pictured)

Snack Bento: fruit kabobs abc pretzels, mini crackers with mini panda cookies imported form japan, honeysticks, mini banana muffins and basic nutrigrain bars (kids love them). Served with Spagetti (not pictured)

Mac & Cheese (thermos) and Snack bento: drinkable yogurt, raisins, babybell, mini rice krispie treats, strawberries and organic bunny shaped crackers.

Bento Lunch: ham rollups.

Bento Lunch: Macaroni and cheese, clementine, pear slices, cherry, pretzels, rice pudding, mini Oreo, Pocky cookie sticks.

Bento Lunch:  Mini hotdog rolls with ketchup, clementine slices, cherries, cup of yogurt, snack mix with raisins.

Mini hotdog, imitation crab and sausage octopi with edamame, blueberry and baby-corn eyes, broccoli, Goldfish crackers, hard-boiled quail egg, edamame, strawberries, chocolate-almond square.

Ham sandwich on a mini croissant, strawberries, omelette rolls, baby corn, snap peas, small fruit- flavoured jellies, candies.

Spaghetti with tomato sauce, hard-boiled quail egg, edamame, mini Ritz cheese sandwiches, Jell-O, Teddy Grahams.

Mini meatball hamburgers with cheese and tomato, carrot and cucumber flowers with ranch dip, apple slices, grapes, snack crackers, cheese cubes.

Animal-shaped chicken fingers with ketchup, cheese animal crackers, enoki mushrooms, carrot flowers, grapes, creme-filled koala cookies.

{ BENTO } From Japan with LOVE

{ BENTO } the first time I heard it a few years ago... I thought what a peculiar name! I just had to find out what all the buzz was about. When I discovered this wonderful "Japanese lunch art" I thought "WOW" there is a reason why Japan is at the forefront of technology and thinking!

I began to dabble with this art. I decided to keep it simple and fun. Fun enough my kids would eat their entire lunch, instead of bringing home wrapped store bought things to toss in the trash. What a waste. I am here to tell you Bento is the best thing since sliced bread...it eliminates the need for ziploc and package waste (which is great for the environment), it saves money, and there is not as much food waste. My children love BENTO, they can't wait to see what they are getting each day. The best part...I know what they are eating as I have prepared it fresh from home. You should give it a try!

My heart goes out to the people currently living in Japan. I can't imagine enduring such devastation. Thoughts and prayers.

Photo kudos Kelly at Bentology.

Favorite Bento sites:

Life of Bridey
Lunch in a Box
Bento Madness
Bentology

Buy the Bento Box Cookbook! All proceeds go to Japan.