Good morning all, and welcome to another Fun Food Friday! Have you been making any fun food recently? Whether it be lovely lunches, creative cakes, or a recipe you’ve blogged, please do join in the link up below and share the inspiration around.
What a week this has been for Eats Amazing and for me! If you follow me regularly you may have noticed that I haven't posted for a week, quite simply I haven't had the chance as I've been dealing with the incredible response I've received as a result of this article in the Daily Mail. I've been missing my blogging though, so I'm very happy that I've managed to grab a moment to write up this quick blog post!
As you can see from the amount of shares above it turned out to be a pretty popular article, and although it inspired some 'lovely' negative comments, I have been blown away by the huge amount of positive feedback from so many wonderful people, friends and strangers alike, who commented, shared, emailed and tweeted me as the story went viral. Thank you from the bottom of my heart you lovely people, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your support!
Small Child was chuffed to bits to see himself pictured 'in the news', even if he was made out to be a fussy eater (he isn't!) - and he has been proudly telling anyone that will listen that he's now famous! Although that's not strictly true, I thought it would be fun to make a star themed lunch for my little star, to celebrate his little moment in the limelight.
In this lunch Small Child had a wholemeal pitta bread, cut into stars using a star shaped cookie cutter, a hard boiled egg, shaped into a star using an egg mould, fresh coconut chunks (under the grapes) and red grapes topped with star shaped food picks, raw red pepper strips (under the carrot) and raw organic carrot, cut into star shapes using a mini bento cutter, and some organic natural yoghurt, which I froze the night before into star shapes using a fun ice cube tray from IKEA. I filled the small dip compartment with organic houmous, and added a small blunt plastic knife to his lunch bag so that he could spread it on the pitta bread stars. I also added a spoon from our mini bento cutlery set for his yoghurt.
Small Child really enjoyed this lunch - all that was left when he got home was one grape and a couple of chunks of coconut, which he promptly finished off as soon as he saw them!
Now it’s your turn, what fun food have you been making recently? Please link up your foodie posts below and share the inspiration around. You can also link up Instagram, Facebook or Twitter pictures if you don’t have a blog of your own.
A few quick reminders before you link up; please visit some of the other blogs that have linked up and leave them a comment – we all love comments! If you are linking up from your blog, please grab the button below too, and put it either in your blog post or somewhere on your blog. Both old and new posts are very welcome, and do feel free to link up several posts if you’d like.
Thank you in advance for linking up, I hope you find some fun inspiration!
k says
just letting you know that the artical made it all the way to New Zealand, they were talking about it on the radio as i was driving little miss and little master home. as a full time working Mum i miss out on a lot and i like to do things for my children that make them feel special even when i'm not there. this just fits the bill. so thanks so much for the impiration and don't listen to the negitive comments.
Grace says
Thank you so much for letting me know, I can't believe the story travelled to the other side of the world!
Dosirakbento says
Congratulations on your article!
It's great way to promote healthy packed lunches, and am sure you have and will inspire lots of people to make creative lunch boxes.
I have included a "car" themed lunch in my link up as you said Small Child likes this theme 😉
Grace says
Thank you! Love the car lunch, thank you for linking up!
Shirley Wong says
Congratulations on the article once again!! Awesomeness!
Grace says
Thanks Shirley!
Keitha says
Congratulations on the great article. Thanks so much for hosting Fun Food Friday!!!
Grace says
Thanks Keitha, and thanks so much for linking up!
Jackie Loving Lunches says
Congratulations!!! (You are both stars in y book ^-^) Thank you for hosting!
Grace says
Thanks Jackie! And thanks for linking up too!
Rina @ Bento School Lunches says
Congratulations on the article Grace! I love the star themed lunch, so cute!
Grace says
Thanks so much Rina!
Mum on the Run says
Thank you for all your amazing ideas for lunchboxes. While I can't recreate them exactly as my son is ten, your blog has inspired me to think a bit harder about providing exciting lunches for him. It doesn't take long to make food fun (even when you work full-time), and I now have a child who ISN'T so picky - his lunches are more interesting so he eats the food.
Grace says
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, I couldn't agree more - Small Child is not the slightest bit picky, and I'm convinced it's in some part down to his lunches being fun and appetising for him. I think it is well worth the 10 minutes in the morning, and I really enjoy making them too!
thebeesleybuzz says
wow - that is brilliant news. We finally get to see the face behind all the incredibly creativity too! Very well done! xxx
Grace says
Thank you! I must say I much prefer the pictures of lunches to the pictures of me, ha ha!
Anneka says
Great article! Inspired me to be more creative with the children's food !
Anneka x
Grace says
Thank you! I'm so glad you're feeling inspired!
Leanne says
Oh these look Great!!! Im going to start doing these lunches for my Youngest sons school packed lunches.. hes such a picky eater x
Grace says
Thank you! I have had several mums tell me that their children have started eating more foods since they started packing bento lunches, good luck!
Lizzie-Beth Nylen says
Saw you your blog featured on the Daily this morning and had to come visit. Talk about awesome mom alert! 🙂 I'm not as good at this stuff but maybe I could do specials for birthdays and holidays! Great inspiration, thanks for sharing!
Grace says
Thank you so much! I'm by no means a perfect Mum but I can make a lunch at least! Do give it a try if you get the chance - it's easier than it looks, honest!
Lizzie-Beth Nylen says
Love it btw!
Grace says
Thank you! 🙂
Yet Another Blogging Mummy!!! says
My first time at this linky. Well done on your article. I've linked up an old post of mine and added your badge to my linkys page
Grace says
Thank you, and thanks so much for linking up!
The Balanced Lunchbox says
Congratulations on your article, it made it all the way to Australia too. Great work on inspiring great lunchboxes!
Grace says
Thank you! Australia too, my lunches are well travelled! Thanks much for letting me know!
Karina Barba says
Yay! Grace! I'm so happy to read this! It is in deed SO amazing how you inspired us to share it with our lovely ones! Here in Mexico is almost nule mommies using this way of life, so for me it is very useful all the help and info you always share with us. Keep it up baby! You are an amazing Mom! ^.^
Grace says
Thanks so much for your lovely comment Karina! 🙂
Tenzin says
I love your lunches. I have been trying to 'bento' but I guess I have to get some more cutters and molds to step it up. I am in Canada so I hope I have luck finding this stuff. Anyways, I love your blog. Keep inspiring us!
Grace says
Thank you! I'd highly recommend http://www.allthingsforsale.com/ for bento supplies - they have a huge range and I know that they ship to Canada.
JessicaGT says
I am reading this article/blog from Atlanta, GA! Absolutely brilliant! I do wonder though, where did you get the lunch box with the green around it? Is there an ice pack in there too?
Grace says
Hi Jessica,
The green lunchbox is the Yumbox - available from http://www.yumboxlunch.com/ in the US. It doesn't have an ice pack built in, but it's a lovely compact box and fits nicely into a standard lunch bag with a couple of those thin gel ice packs. Hope that helps!
Laura says
Just remember never to read below the comment line 😉 well done. these are awesome!
Grace says
Thank you so much! 🙂