Hawaii's Bento Box Cookbook: Fun Lunches for Kids

by Susan Yuen

While fast food and quick lunches may be the norm, parents still want to provide fun and healthy meals for their children. A widespread trend sweeping Japan is the homemade specialty bento parents prepare for their children. This trend is now becoming popular in Hawaii and just in time is a new cookbook filled with fun, easy-to-make bento box recipes that will delight the eye and tickle the tummy. Sliced carrots become plumeria flowers; scrambled eggs become little chicks; a vegetable croquette becomes a puppy dog; and home lunch becomes something to look forward to. With recipes and step-by-step photos, any home cook can prepare these bentos for even the pickiest eater. Have fun. Make food and art and feed your child nutritious, delicious lunches that are picture perfect.

Genres: Food, Nonfiction, Cookbooks

152 pages, Spiral-bound

First published July 1, 2008

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bento lunches are very cool, if only I could have convinced my daughter... Needless to day, bento lunches were something I got into and my daughter supported in her sweet way, so long as she didn't have to take the lunches to school. I still have a lot to learn about crafting bento lunches but with all the money I've spent on bento supplies - I figure I am halfway there.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute ideas for making kids' lunches!