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Halloween Two-Pumpkin Bento

Today’s baby dinner bento features two little pumpkins to get us all in the Halloween spirit!

I shaped about half a cup of sushi rice into a ball using plastic wrap, then dusted it with black sesame seeds for color. On top of the rice went Pumpkin #1, which I cut out of a fruit snack (the organic ones from Archer Farms at Target are mine and the baby’s favorite).

Around the rice went a sliced strawberry and one wonton with some of my homemade nitsume sauce. I’m glad I made a double batch of nitsume last weekend; it lasts forever and goes great with anything savory that could use a touch of saltiness.

Pumpkin #2 was an easy creation of half a Clementine orange with a leaf pick in the top. Simple but effective!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

 

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Lit Pumpkin Bento

For a fun little snack yesterday, I threw together all the orange-y things I could find into the small half of my little white Kotobuki bento box.

The most entertaining part to make was the little cream cheese sandwich, which I made by tinting cream cheese with a little orange gel food coloring (definitely the most fun part of the proceedings!). The little pumpkin got his own bed of carrot sticks, a Baybel cheese with a moon carved out of it, and a tiny mozarella leaf.

It wasn’t a balanced snack in the least, but I figured a one-color snack every once in a while wouldn’t hurt anyone!

Happy Halloween bento-ing!

 

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