tools and supplies, it’s time to play with your food! Instead of packing that snorer of a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich for the third time this week, try some fun, healthy obento lunches (see page ;;)—meals that kids will actually eat, not just throw away. And don’t forget to round them out with a thermos of ;;; percent juice, skim milk, or water. ;en, at the end of the meal, your children can truthfully say, as Japanese kids do, “Gochisousamadeshita!”—“It was a feast!”

RESOURCES
Blog with creative obento and helpful tutorials, www.
adventuresinbentomaking.com
Incredible obento masterpieces (in Japanese),
www.e-obento.com
Jana’s Al-Ghunaim’s obento photos: www.flickr.com/
photos/lovebones
Amorette Dye’s obento photos: www.flickr.com/
photos/kitsa_sakurako
Amorette Dye’s food blog: wackyfunfoodarttime.
blogspot.com
Lunch in a Box, Obento-making designs and ideas (in
English), http://lunchinabox.net
Lunchopolis, www.lunchopolis.com
Angie Ng’s obento photos: www.flickr.com/photos/
hippomum
Obentec’s Laptop Lunches, www.laptoplunches.com

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Wondering what to put into your obento box? See www.mothering.com/ links for a link to Peggy’s Kitchen where you’ll ;nd great recipes for rice dishes, fruit salads, and more.

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