Some bentos

Didn't do much this month with bentos. Too many chilly mornings with a fuzzy brain. But I've been working on variety in a winter of not much variety. Things are so much prettier in May and September...and the worst part is that when I'm done with them, I have to take these quick little snapshots before packing them up. Nothing pretty about them. But there was some cute. That's a catbus, although his face is hard to see (the sister's lunch looked a little more like it. Homemade mac and cheese with cheese and nori for the face. Mushrooms, meatballs, and dumplings. Asparagus, carrots, brussel sprouts).
Soy hot dog, some dumplings and meatballs and mac and cheese again (I totally made too much mac and cheese). In the other, pinapple, crackers, peanut butter, and a heart cake. I don't think there was any fresh fruit in the house this day...but don't you love this little tiffin box?
A strawberry in the center of orange wedges. With eyes (bits of candy eyes, actually). A soot sprite gone missing from the totoro scene, not pictured.
This was Maeve's sick day lunch back when she had the double ear infection and couldn't keep anything down. BRAT diet is so dull. This is a banana, next to a Totoro bun. Jelly and a bit of peanut butter inside--she kept it down--with the same little candy eyes, banana wedge ears, sunflower seed nose and what appears to be a candy sunflower seed mouth. It enticed her enough to eat--the first solid food after crackers and homemade pedialyte finally stayed down.

Valentine's day is coming, which naturally leads to easy hearts all over the place in my bentos. Those are fun.