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10 Imaginative Bento School Lunches for your Kids

Posted by angie mcgowan on August 16th, 2011 at 4:16 pm

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Today I am so happy to introduce to you Shannon Carino, the amazingly creative woman behind the blog, What’s for Lunch at our house. Her blog is devoted to creative bento lunch ideas like this adorable Cinderella princess lunch pictured above. I first met Shannon at a Blogher event just over a year ago. She is one of the sweetest, nicest blogging mamas I’ve met in real life. I was initially drawn to her aversion of minivans and all other stereotypical soccer mom things. Shannon has a very common sense approach to parenting and feeding her family a balanced and healthy diet that’s also fun. She was born and raised in Southern Ontario, but now resides with her husband and 2 children (8 and 5) in the suburbs of Dallas. Shanon’s popular blog has been featured on Dallas Morning News, AOL’s Parent Dish and Dallas Child.

It was really hard, but I’ve made a list here of my top 10 favorite bento lunches from her site.

You can follow Shanon’s blog, What’s for Lunch at our house, follow her on Twitter, or connect with her on Facebook to keep up to date on all her latest creations.

Now pack that lunch in a cute container: Babble’s best lunchboxes for kids!

 10 Imaginative Bento School Lunches for your Kids

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[...] Bento Box Smiles August 17th, 2011 | Author: cassandra Kawaii! These are some pretty whimsical Bento box lunches. So cool! http://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2011/08/16/10-imaginative-bento-school-lunches-for-your-kids/... [...]

Bento Box Smiles | Good Mormon commented on Aug 17 11 at 5:25 pm

I never knew what bento was I hear about it alot lately. The nightmare before christmas one very cute

Valerie commented on Aug 17 11 at 5:28 pm

These are great ideas! I wish they would of been around when me daughter was little, maybe her diet would be better!

sandy commented on Aug 22 11 at 8:45 am

MT SON WOULD HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSED TO OPEN HIS LUNCH BOX.

sue michael commented on Aug 28 11 at 7:00 pm

Uhh…
This is definitely the kind of mom I always WANTED to be, but I’m lucky if I have enough time to cook diner at night and throw breakfast together in the morning. I would need to get organized if I was ever going to be able to pull something like this off. My son is a tween now. He probably wouldn’t like any of these all that much but somebody creative enough to put these together has GOT to have some ideas up her sleeve for getting tweens and teens to eat healthy foods. Though I must say, teaching them to eat healthy at the young age where they would be influenced by these cool designs is a large part of the battle. Way to go. Seriously though, I’d love any advice you’ve come up with for tweens and teens because they eat like starving race horses.

Michelle Santagate commented on Oct 08 11 at 6:11 pm

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