My big boy's bento for this great Friday:
On the top is garlic parmesan toasty bread cut into dinosaur shapes and Goldfish crackers. The bottom holds a small clementine orange, a silicone cup of little purple grapes, a Baby Bell cheese, and a checkered apple.
The checkered apple. Oy. Here's what I have to say about that:
- I don't foresee doing many of these
- it is easy, it doesn't take long, (this wedge took about a minute), but I can't multi-task and make these. And I'm ALWAYS multitasking.
- you don't want to know how many wedges I went through where I messed up the checkered pattern by cutting off the wrong square of peel (there's a reason why there's only one wedge in the box)
- the checkered pattern looks much nicer on these lighter colored apples than they do on dark red apples.
- my kids think they are really really cool.
The dinosaur bread was cut using a Dinobytes sandwich cutter. These are really nifty because you can get some cute shapes without having a lot of excess waste being cut away. :) The box I used was a Sassy Mealtime box with the inner boxes removed.
Have a great weekend!
7 comments:
yeah, I won't be making a checkered apple anytime soon. Looks cool though!
I love the dinobytes cutter it makes sandwiches so much fun!
Love the comments about checkered apples, it's so true that the hardest part is remembering to remove the right boxes! I have had many a funny looking apple pattern :D
So cute, the kids are so over the PP&J. Glad I ran across your site. With 4 kids aswell I'll be checking back for more great ideas.
Thanks!
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So how do you make the checkered apple? Just cutting stripes both ways?
Yes, Shannon - score the peel going horizontally and vertically. Then lift the sqauares of peel away to make the pattern.
I want you to try it and then report back on how difficult you thought it was to make the checkerboard. I would have NEVER guessed it would be so tricky! I couldn't believe how many times I would make a mistake. Everytime I messed up I'd eat the apple wedge. I ended up eating the whole apple, minus this one LAST wedge that finally made it into the box. LOL
How do the parts that are peeled not turn brown?
Hello Ang! To keep a cut apple from turning brown you can dip it in fruit juice. The ascorbic acid (otherwise known as Vitamin C) will prevent browing! Lemon juice is a popular choice, but apple juice or any other will work too. I just pour a teeny bit of juice in a saucer and flip all sides of the apple in it and it's good to go. :)
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