Happy St George's Day everyone! ​

I raided the Peppa Pig basket and found St George slaying the dragon. Perfect for a toddler lunch.​

A feast of red and white.​

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Featured in this Bento Babies box:​

• Fresh coconut
• Raw cauliflower
• Prawn crackers
• Pitta bread
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Radishes
• Little pot of hummus on the side for dipping

​Don't forget to check out the cheat sheet of ingredient ideas if you would like to join in! 

If you have made up a Bento Babies box for your little or big ones, take a photo, post it to Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook and link it up here.​ 

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Come on, sing with me, Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! Oh I do like to be beside the sea! ​Oh I do like to stroll along the couscous prom... wait, yes that's right we have sand made from giant couscous and grated cheese!

Featured in this Beach Bento Babies​ box:

• ​Giant couscous
• Ice cream soft sweet
• Grated cheese
• Red Leicester ​feet (buried in the sand!)
• Scotch egg crab
• Macaroni pasta (dyed blue with a few drops of food colouring)​
• Watermelon fruit seahorses
• Bow pasta fish with a couscous eye
• ​Dried pineapple ring and half boiled egg sun

The easiest beach friends to make. Sammy made 2 crabs but one got eaten before we put the box in the fridge!​ I adore this box so much. Yay! It has a neat band to keep the lid in place. I used food separators to keep the 3 main ingredients from merging into each other. I love how it looks as though the animals are buried in the sand.

For everyone who has tweeted me a photo, it is wonderful seeing your creations. Make sure you link up your pictures here. Bento ideas come from everyone sharing, so link away and I will add them to the Bento Babies Pinterest Board.​

I bought all of the ingredients in my local supermarket. Check out your dried fruit aisles, there are lots of interesting products that both children and adults will enjoy.

Happy making! ​

Tomorrow is the first day back at preschool after a fun filled Easter break and Sammy has already started saying he doesn't want to go back! I can understand that after days full of games, treats and chocolate over Easter, that this holiday has been much more appealing than routine! 

But I have to get back to my own work routine instead of fielding emails ​and shoe horning calls into a day with the boys.

So we have been reading a favourite book all about going to school and he has a monkey lunch to enjoy!​

Books are great inspiration for Bento ideas.

Featured in this Bento Babies monkey box (I got the box in Asda for £1) :​

• ​Yoghurt covered dried apricot
• Cinnamon bear crackers
• ​Cheese spread wraps cut into mini rolls
• Cocktail sausages
• Red grapes
• Strawberry fruit sticks
• Fruit jellies
• Animal biscuits
• Lemon mini muffin cake

Have you tried making any Bento creations? I would love to see them and share all our ideas to help get all our little and big ones trying new things and old!

Link them up here and I will also be adding them to the Bento Babies Pinterest Board.​

You can link up anything that you have posted on the web. A blog post, Facebook or Twitter picture. ​ Just add the url link (the text that appears in your browser bar). I can't wait to see! If you have any questions just ask away!