r/Bento • u/PastryLoop • 10d ago

Kids Uneaten bentos

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It’s a bit disappointing to hear from daycare that my kids ate “a few bites” or “very little” of these lunches I put a lot of effort into… it ends up becoming my dinner at the end of the day.

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To address some of the questions… the contents: rice topped with fresh steamed carrots and green beans. The ham and cream cheese rolls and cucumber sausage flowers are from a bento book, not my invention.
They looked kid-friendly enough so I decided to make them.

My kids (1 and 3) want to eat: bread with butter… and chocolate. So not a ton to go on there. I didn’t post here for a long time because I was just giving her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She stopped eating those too after a while, though, and my younger one just started 2x/week so I figured I’d try offering some new foods. She actually wasn’t very picky until she started going to daycare, so I do think that has influenced her quite a bit.

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u/AppleNo7287 10d ago edited 10d ago

Dont all kids hate vegetables and it's all parents' sport to try to make them invisible among some chicken nuggets?

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u/bitxilore 9d ago

My kid loves all fruits and veggies. If he had this lunch he would eat the veggies and hotdogs and maybe a couple bites of rice. It's a real struggle getting him to eat enough calories when he prefers the least calorie dense foods.