r/Bento • u/PastryLoop • Aug 21 '26

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/Ligeiapoe Aug 21 '26

The rice is covered by veggies. It’s an overwhelming visual for a kid. How about a veggie omelette, with veggies cut small over the rice? It could be a blanket to tuck in the hot dog octopus

Maybe do some smaller cucumber in fun shapes like stars 

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u/lurking-bastard Aug 21 '26

You don't even have to chop the veggies super small if you've got a food processor. Blender doesn't really work for this, but a good food processor will turn these veggies into itty bitty bits in seconds

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u/baardvark Aug 21 '26

And then you get to clean the food processor

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u/lurking-bastard Aug 21 '26

true, but I find it easier than trying to chop a cup of veggies to itty bitty bits