{"id":1986,"date":"2009-09-16T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2009-10-08T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T04:55:14","slug":"bento-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/bento-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Bento Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been packing Carrie’s lunch every day, for a few reasons.\u00a0 First, she’s a pretty slow eater, and would likely not have enough time to eat if she had to spend half her lunch period waiting in line.\u00a0 Second, she’s a somewhat picky eater – in that she doesn’t eat “normal” kid foods like pizza and fish sticks – so the “kid-friendly” lunch menu really only has PB&J as an option she’d regularly eat.\u00a0 Third, I’m not convinced that the school lunches are really all that healthy, or appetizing.<\/p>\n

At one point I stumbled on a huge community of parents who post pictures of their kids’ bento lunches on flickr.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a very odd thing, putting food pictures on the internet.\u00a0 And then I became a bit intrigued, because they looked pretty tasty and fun.\u00a0 Plus I really liked the fact that using bento boxes avoids plastic baggies altogether – the only disposable thing I send in with Carrie is a single napkin a day.<\/p>\n

So I’m trying to make bento lunches…though mine aren’t nearly as complex as a lot of the pictures I’ve seen.\u00a0 We have a few kid-friendly bento containers, and I’m learning how best to pack them so that they’re healthy, attractive and fun.\u00a0 So far they’ve gone over pretty well:<\/p>\n

\"20090919\"I have more pictures of pretty pink bento lunches on flickr<\/a>…\u00a0 Yes, indeed, I’m now posting food pictures to the internet.\u00a0 Then again, I’ve always been a bit odd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been packing Carrie’s lunch every day, for a few reasons.\u00a0 First, she’s a pretty slow eater, and would likely not have enough time to eat if she had to spend half her lunch period waiting in line.\u00a0 Second, she’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-bento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}