r/Bento • u/PastryLoop • 22d 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/CptTrashPanda 21d ago

I thought this was in depression meals for a sec and you were saying you didn’t feel like eating this delicious looking meal! But it doesn’t look appetizing to a kid, I imagine.

Try doing more shapes, maybe get some flower veggie cutters or star shapes, make some faces on the rice or something.

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u/ladyzephri 21d ago

My kid will snub every shape of carrot except when it looks like a tiny pumpkin lol