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    Home » Fun Food For Kids » Fun Food Tutorials » Pirates

    Fun Food Tutorial: Cheese and Carrot 'Coins'

    Aug 15, 2015 · 12 Comments

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    Today I'm sharing a fun food tutorial for cheese and carrot coins.  This is an update of one of my very earliest blog posts with new (hopefully better!) photos and a fun little video tutorial too. These carrot coins are very quick and easy to make, and are great as a fun snack, or to pop in a lunch box too.

    Fun food for kids tutorial - easy and healthy cheese and carrot coins - cute bento lunch box food idea for back to school from Eats Amazing UK

    All you need to make them is the following;

    Ingrdients:

    • 1 large carrot, washed.
    • small block of cheddar cheese

    Equipment:

    • vegetable peeler
    • small sharp knife
    • mini bento cutters

    How to make easy and healthy cheese and carrot coins -great lunch box food idea for back to school from Eats Amazing UK - fun bento box ideas for kids

    Peel the carrot, then cut into thick slices or rounds.  Cut slices of cheddar cheese to a similar thickness to the carrot rounds.  From each carrot round, cut a shape using a mini cutter.

    From a slice of cheese, cut a shape using the same cutter.  Slide the cheese shape into the carrot round.

    Repeat until you have as many 'coins' as you need. Mix them up with different cutter shapes, or you could hunt out some rainbow carrots to make them even prettier!

    Fun food for kids tutorial - simple and healthy cheese and carrot coins - great bento lunch box food idea for back to school from Eats Amazing UK

    You could cook the carrot before you use it, but we preferred them raw. You could also apply this technique to other vegetables - we like to put carrot shapes into cucumber rounds too.

    As I mentioned above, I've also made a fun little video tutorial to show you how I make these.  If you enjoy it, do subscribe my YouTube channel, I hope to have lots more videos for you over the coming weeks and months.

    If you’re having trouble loading this video, you can also watch it on YouTube here.

    If you’d like more fun food ideas, you can also follow Eats Amazing over on Pinterest, where I am often to be found hunting down the best creative food from all over the web!

    Grace

    Fun food for kids tutorial - simple and healthy cheese and carrot coins - great bento lunch box food idea for back to school from Eats Amazing UK
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    Cheese and Carrot Coins

    Fun food for kids tutorial - simple and healthy cheese and carrot coins - great bento lunch box food idea for back to school.
    Prep Time10 minutes mins
    Total Time10 minutes mins
    Course: Lunch Box, Party Food, Snack
    Cuisine: British, Vegetarian
    Servings: 10 bites
    Author: Grace Hall

    Ingredients

    • 1 large carrot, washed.
    • small block of cheddar cheese

    Instructions

    • Peel the carrot, then cut into thick slices or rounds.  Cut slices of cheddar cheese to a similar thickness to the carrot rounds.  From each carrot round, cut a shape using a mini cutter.
    • From a slice of cheese, cut a shape using the same cutter.  Slide the cheese shape into the carrot round.
    • Repeat until you have as many 'coins' as you need. Mix them up with different cutter shapes. 

    Notes

    Equipment: Vegetable peeler, small sharp knife and mini bento cutters. You could cook the carrot before you use it, but we preferred them raw. You could also apply this technique to other vegetables - we like to put carrot shapes into cucumber rounds too.
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    1. Diana says

      November 01, 2012 at 2:41 pm

      AMAZING tutorial! I have to try this! Thanks for linking up to PIN MEme! I've pinned & tweeted this! I'm also following you via Pinterest & FB now!

      Diana
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    2. Christine - Yogaberry says

      August 15, 2015 at 2:47 pm

      this is such a great idea! Will definitely have to try this x

      Reply
    3. Dawn says

      August 16, 2015 at 9:20 am

      what a great idea!

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    4. Siobhan says

      August 19, 2015 at 7:09 pm

      Hi there, great idea for school lunchboxes for September. Just looking at ordering one or two things on website but can't find mini bento cutters...like ones in video. Could you please point me in right direction. Thanks

      Reply

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