Disclosure: This blog post was commissioned by Capri-Sun. I was compensated for the cost of ingredients and for my time spent creating and photographing this lunch.
This funny face lunch idea was created for the Capri-Sun Fruit Crush #PackedLunchLove campaign. You can read all about the campaign and find my list of 10 simple lunchbox life 'hacks' by clicking here.
This lunch box takes just 7 minutes to make, so it's really quick and easy to put together. It's easy to customise too, so it's a perfect fun lunch to make for multiple children - just switch ingredients in and out to suit their individual tastes.
7 Minute Funny Face Lunch
Ingredients (for one lunch)
- 2 slices seeded bread
- 1 slice ham
- 2 lettuce leaves
- 1 mini Babybel cheese
- 2 blueberries
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- 2 mini peppers
- 1 apple
- 1 mini marshmallow
- 1 Capri-Sun Fruit Crush pouch
Equipment
- sharp knife
- 1 set eye bento food picks
- kitchen scissors
- edible marker pen
Method
Start by making your sandwich. I used ham for this lunch, but you could use any filling of your choice.
Take the mini Babybel cheese, peel off the outer wrapper, leaving the wax on the cheese, and cut it in half so that you end up with two circles, as shown in the picture below.
Using a sharp knife, cut the sandwich in half at an angle as shown in the photo below. Add a couple of lettuce leaves to the top half of the sandwich, so that they poke out of the top as 'hair'.
Pop the Babybel cheese onto the sandwich to form two eyes. Add a cherry tomato nose, pushing it firmly into the bread so that it stays put. Finish off the eyes with a couple of blueberries. You can stick them down with a dab of cream cheese or mayo if you wish, which will help to hold them in place whilst the lunch is transported.
Place the sandwich into your lunch box. I used a Klip Seal 3 compartment lunch box for this lunch, but you could use any lunch box of your choice, or even a sandwich box and some snack containers.
Pop a couple of eye bento picks into two mini peppers to decorate and pack them in the lunch box, filling up any spaces around them with the rest of the cherry tomatoes.
Create eyes for the apple using a mini marshmallow and an edible marker pen. To make the eyes, take a mini marshmallow, snip it in half with kitchen scissors as shown in the picture below, then use the edible marker pen to dot each of the eyes. The great thing about these fun edible eyes it that they are self adhesive! The cut side of the marshmallow is sticky so you can stick them straight onto an apple (or other fruit of your choice).
Add your apple, complete with eyes, to the lunch box to finish your lunch. Pack the lunch box up with a Capri Sun Fruit Crush pouch of your choice.
As I mentioned above, this lunch is an ideal fun lunch for packing for multiple children. You can easily swap ingredients in and out to suit each child, for example in one of the lunches I swapped the tomato nose for a slice of carrot, added carrot sticks in place of the tomatoes and peppers, and swapped the apple for cherries and blueberries. In another lunch I swapped the mini peppers for sugar snap peas - there really are endless combinations and possibilities, just use whatever fruits and vegetables suit your own children.
If you'd like to see the other four fun and easy lunches that I created for the Capri-Sun Fruit Crush #PackedLunchLove project, click here. You can also find out more about the project and my list of 10 lunchbox life 'hacks' by clicking here. For more information about Capri-Sun Fruit Crush, visit the Capri-Sun website.
Grace
Safety note: Knives should only be used by parents/guardians, or by supervised older children when safe. Take care to show children equipment and decorations pictured are non-edible.
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7 Minute Funny Face Lunch
Ingredients
- 2 slices seeded bread
- 1 slice ham
- 2 lettuce leaves
- 1 mini Babybel cheese
- 2 blueberries
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- 2 mini peppers
- 1 apple
- 1 mini marshmallow
- 1 Capri-Sun Fruit Crush pouch
Instructions
- Start by making your sandwich. I used ham for this lunch, but you could use any filling of your choice.
- Take the mini Babybel cheese, peel off the outer wrapper, leaving the wax on the cheese, and cut it in half so that you end up with two circles, as shown in the picture below.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the sandwich in half at an angle as shown in the photo below. Add a couple of lettuce leaves to the top half of the sandwich, so that they poke out of the top as 'hair'.
- Pop the Babybel cheese onto the sandwich to form two eyes. Add a cherry tomato nose, pushing it firmly into the bread so that it stays put. Finish off the eyes with a couple of blueberries. You can stick them down with a dab of cream cheese or mayo if you wish, which will help to hold them in place whilst the lunch is transported.
- Place the sandwich into your lunch box. I used a Klip Seal 3 compartment lunch box for this lunch, but you could use any lunch box of your choice, or even a sandwich box and some snack containers.
- Pop a couple of eye bento picks into two mini peppers to decorate and pack them in the lunch box, filling up any spaces around them with the rest of the cherry tomatoes.
- Create eyes for the apple using a mini marshmallow and an edible marker pen. To make the eyes, take a mini marshmallow, snip it in half with kitchen scissors as shown in the picture below, then use the edible marker pen to dot each of the eyes. The great thing about these fun edible eyes it that they are self adhesive! The cut side of the marshmallow is sticky so you can stick them straight onto an apple (or other fruit of your choice).
- Add your apple, complete with eyes, to the lunch box to finish your lunch. Pack the lunch box up.
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