Lunch Made Easy: Bento Inspiration has begun...

My sister has gotten me hooked and completely interested in Bento lunches.
The art and the practicality! I need to build my supplies up... and now with the school year ending, I might as well wait until it begin again in the fall before I really splurge. :)
That being said, I plan on placing an order for a few things after the weekend. SO EXCITED!

Below I'm not only going to post her lunch from today, again utilizing the recycled strawberry container she now loves (LOL) but also a Bento inspired dinner I made for her the other night.

This is the dinner I made:

Using some of my new picks, I diced her chicken nuggets up to make skewers out of them.

(I snagged my picks on clearance at Hobby Lobby for 71 cents for a pack of 12! They're actually cupcake picks.)

She also has a diced hardboiled egg, cottage cheese, and a 'Berry Butterfly'.

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As mentioned above, today I utilized her recycled strawberry container again.

(See previous post here: Lunch Made Easy: Recycling Strawberry Containers)

I cut her sandwich into star shapes using my stainelss cutter.

I put them in a paper cupcake cup (since I don't have my real bento box yet, I'm using throwaways - for now - then I can use my silicon containers!)

I also gave her some blueberries and diced strawberries in another cup.

It astounds me how much can fit into such a small container!

I stacked them in two layers like a bento.

There's a small apple juice box, napkin, her sandwich cup, berry cup, some cheese cubes, chips, and a twinkie for dessert. :)

Can I say it again? I cannot wait to get her real bento box and really start being creative!

It's going to be so fun incorporating the "Silly Sandwiches" I was already making for her into new creations along with silly sides.