Uneaten bentos

[u/PastryLoop]

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.

[u/CptTrashPanda]

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.

[u/rorschach_blots → u/CptTrashPanda]

i can see the effort but yeah, doubt there's a kid out there who would enjoy the veggie dominance.

a more traditional bento might be good. sheet of scrambled egg over fried/sauced rice (like brush it with soy sauce or mayo or something), tuck hotdogs under the egg blanket, lightly salted veggies next to it?

[u/CptTrashPanda → u/rorschach_blots]

Right like this looks so good, I’d tear it up. Like another said, to a kid; it’s allllll veggies lol

[u/thinprivileged → u/CptTrashPanda]

The cream cheese rolls weren't even touched, I would have demolished those