As you can see… discovering, the hot lunch jars has definitely expanded the types of homemade foods that I can add to my 10yo daughters lunches. As I already mentioned, the lunches I prepared before were homemade, but I was limited since she wasn’t using an insulated lunch box.
This week my daughter had a variety of hot meals in her lunch such as; egg rolls, vegetable fried rice, chicken breasts, pasta, black beans and rice and a few other hot lunches also. I’ve included some photos below.
Earlier this week I made meatballs, brown rice and vegetables to put into my daughters Zojirushi stainless lunch jar.
Towards the end of last week, I picked up some Japanese ‘bento decorations’ and have been having fun adding cute little touches to my daughters hot lunches. I definitely won’t be spending a lot of time in food the design department, but I don’t mind adding a few moments to dress up my daughter’s lunch a bit. I’m sure my skills will improve the more I play around with the cute little bento tools.
A close picture of the meatballs swimming in a fragrant mushroom sauce. I added a few cute animal tooth picks to dress up the dish. Aren’t they adorable? It sort of looks like they are resting on mounds of earth. My daughter loved seeing these decorations in her Zojirushi lunch jar.
Yesterday (Thursday) marked a week that my daughter has been using the zojirushi insulated lunch jar, and each day she’s brought home an empty lunch. It only takes about ten minutes to pack leftover foods into her lunch in the morning. The rewards are having my daughter bring an empty lunch box home.
Hah!!! My daughter loves the cute touches, cartoons and the like…even at her age and seeing her delight sure makes the little extra effort worthwhile.
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@suituapui, I thought your daughter would like things such as these. Cuteness can be enjoyed, regardless of the age. 🙂
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Yup totally love the little animals very cute indeed
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@Jennifer, I know right? I’m happy that my daughter loves them too. 🙂
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