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    Home » Bento Lunches » Lunches

    Kiwi Fruit Dinosaur Eggs for Dinovember

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    Today I'm sharing a simple but fun kids food idea - kiwi fruit edible dinosaur eggs!

    As you know, I'm very enthusiastic about presenting food in new and creative ways in order to encourage children to try eating more healthy foods.  I always do my best to keep things simple, as most of us have busy lives with various time pressures and not many of us have the time or the inclination to spend hours in the kitchen. 

    Part of my aim in setting the Eats Amazing blog up was to share simple tips and tricks to make children's food and bento lunches fun with minimal effort! Sometimes I stray from my objective and get a little more elaborate, but today's lunch contains a classic example of a very simple trick - with a sharp knife you can turn a kiwi fruit into a dinosaur egg in a matter of seconds!

    Kiwi fruit is a whole lot more fun to eat for kids when you turn it into a dinosaur egg - idea and tutorial from Eats Amazing UK

    I made a dinosaur egg because this month is Dinovember! If you haven't heard of Dinovember yet, you're in for a treat - do pop over and have a look at the original Dinovember website to see what it's all about!

    Here's the lunch the kiwi 'egg' went into.  It was dinosaur themed of course (although Small Child's first guess as I was making the sandwiches was Star Wars, pfft!). 

    In this lunch Small Child had dinosaur footprint roast chicken sandwiches on granary bread (to make, simply cut sandwiches into circles using a circle cutter, then cut two triangles out of each to make the 'toes', a mini Babybel cheese, decorated with a dinosaur cupcake pick, a kiwi fruit dinosaur egg, cucumber chunks and some sugar-snap peas, also decorated with a dinosaur cupcake pick. I also added a tube of frozen yoghurt and a spoon for the kiwi fruit

    Dinosaur themed food - footprint sandwiches and a kiwi dino egg in this simple bento lunch from Eats Amazing UK

    Here's a quick tutorial for the kiwi fruit 'egg', it's so quick and easy but I think it looks really effective! All you need is a kiwi fruit and a small sharp knife. 

    These would be fun to serve up at a dinosaur themed party or as a fun healthy snack as well as in a lunch box!  To make, simply cut a zig zag shape all around the kiwi with the knife as shown below.  Make sure you push the knife well into the fruit, so that it will come apart easily.

    Serving idea for kiwi fruit - cut a zig zag pattern then pull appart to look like a flower or an egg - tutorial from Eats Amazing UKWhen you have cut the zig zag all the way around, put the knife down and gently pull the two halves of the kiwi fruit apart.  It should come straight apart, but you may need to go over the cuts a little deeper if it doesn't come apart easily. Serve up with a spoon to eat it - toy dinosaurs optional!

    Dinovember kiwi fruit - turn into fun edible dinosaur eggs with this simple cutting trick from Eats Amazing UK

    I use this method regularly, and change its name depending on the time of year - with a bit of imagination it becomes an Easter egg in the spring, a flower in the summer and a star at Christmas! Right now though, our kiwi fruits are definitely dinosaur eggs, Small Child is a big fan of Dinovember!

    Grace

    Items used to make this lunch:

    Double Sided Nesting Round Cookie Scone Cutters from Eats Amazing UKDinosaur Themed Cupcake Picks Decorations from Eats Amazing UK

    Disclosure: This post contains some Amazon affiliate links; I may receive commission on items purchased through the links.

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    1. thebeesleybuzz says

      November 12, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      Love that idea with the kiwi - Simple yet really effective.

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      • Grace says

        November 13, 2014 at 12:44 pm

        Thank you, it's a favourite little trick of mine! 🙂

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    2. Dosirakbento says

      November 14, 2014 at 12:51 pm

      I think your blog and lunches are a great inspiration and full of useful tips. As you say, simple tricks are often enough to make a lunch more creative/attractive/more fun but sometimes you just need a bit more imagination (and/or a blog like yours) to come up with ideas and to think outside of the "box". (Or actually in this case thinking flexible inside the box....)

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    3. Eunice says

      October 04, 2023 at 11:34 am

      We love your Dino Food Art! We would love to feature you in our Dinovember blog article 🙂 Do get in touch with us.

      Reply

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