I thought some of her Bento Box ideas would be the perfect thing to make for for a nice summer evening picnic or backyard camping. The Bento shown here contains garlic naan ketchup sandwiches cut into star shapes, whole wheat pretzel sticks, strawberries, peaches with sprinkles, grape tomatoes, a hard boiled egg pressed into a car shape with an egg mold (Wendolonia blacked out the windows and tires with a food marker) and leftover chicken chunks. For more amazing ideas, visit Wendolonia. You can get the tomato jam recipe and all kinds of other meal ideas at Foodie Tots. A tip from Kid Appeal: If your kids pick herbs out of everything, “chop them small. Instead of large basil leaves torn in pasta salad, puree them into a sauce/vinaigrette. Once they get used to the taste, start using larger pieces. Have them help wash and pick leaves off stems. They’re more likely to eat it if they helped prepare it. Finally, give it time. Time cures most food aversions. You keep serving them, and eventually kids will eat them.” Visit Food With Kid Appeal for the Grilled Herbed Potato recipe. Visit the Naptime Chef for her recipe for Uncle Will’s Baby Back Ribs. You can get mini buns at Trader Joe’s — who knew? My daughter is going to be so excited to be able to hold a “whole burger” in her hands. You’ll find the recipe for Chicken Sun-Dried Tomato Burgers at Weelicious.
