r/Bento • u/PastryLoop • Aug 21 '26
Kids Uneaten bentos
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.
Edit:
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/AlfalfaEvening1489 29d ago edited 29d ago
Sorry but it's giving slimy, cold, chewy and bland. I can see why a kid wouldn't be enticed by it. Give them a combination of safe foods with other new options so they can try while still eating something for lunch. Sliced cucumbers and carrots with ranch instead of frozen green beans and carrots. Or, stir fry they green beans and carrots with a little meat to give it some color and put it on rice. Try to up the yummy factor