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My Little Pony Lunch


I learned a long time ago that the best way to serve lunch to my picky child is to make it into something fun. She is all about My Little Pony this year. I wanted to style the food to look adorable with flowers, shapes, and even vibrant colors. While I admit that I’m a sucker for these sweetly styled meals, I don’t have nearly the amount of time or patience it takes to create such detailed works of food art. However, I have mastered the art of creating deceptively simple bento lunches that look like they took a long time to create. To do this, I tend to use laminated cliparts. By doing this you’re able to add the little details without sacrificing time. I know this might feel like cheating, and I should have taken the time to make the eyes out of bread or nori. However, with only ten minutes to spare this works for me.  

My grandkids love that I made them something special (that they can show off to their friends at lunchtime!), and I love that they’re guaranteed to eat their healthy lunch foods when it’s in a fun package like this. 

To create this luch you will need to print and laminate My Little Pony cliparts. This will be used to decorate the lunch. If you are not planning to create your own eyes using food, be sure to print pony shaped eyes. You will also need blue and pink food coloring. I choose to go this route because I was using things I had on hand at home. You will also need star and heart shape cookie cutters.

Included in Lunch:

Uncrustable Sandwich

Pringles

Broccoli

Fruit- cherries, red apple, and green apple

Vanilla pudding

Rainbow fruit rollup


Direction:

  1. Mix one cup of pudding with one drop of blue food coloring. In another bowl mix 1/2 cup of pudding with pink food coloring. Keep in refrigerator until you are ready to add it to bento.
  2. Place one Uncrustable Sandwich in bento. Unroll Fruit Rollup and drape across the top to look like the pony's mane. Cut out and add the printed eye. 
  3. Place chips and broccoli in bento
  4. Cut apples using cookie cutter. Add the cut fruit and cherries to bento.
  5. Now take out the pudding and layer it in one self contained section of bento box. 

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