by jessicaperkins | Nov 14, 2011 | bento, food, healthy, lunch, nutrition, nutritious, preschool, totschool
peanut butter sandwich, pepperoni, almond slivers, cheese stick, carrot sticks, green grapesI have always loved the ideas of bentos. For adults. For kids. For toddlers. There is just something about cute little colorful foods combined together in a thoughtful way that...
by jessicaperkins | Nov 3, 2011 | bento, bento box, food, home school, kitchen, lunch, nutrition, School, time
With the beginning of the school year comes thoughts of a yummy school lunch. I have been exploring fun ways to present Buga with healthy lunching opportunities and fell in love with Bento style packing. Though she won’t be taking lunch to her little school this...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 14, 2011 | activity, autumn, fall, food, highlights, kitchen, magazine, nutrition, pumpkin
Magazine Time!I (we) Love Highlights magazine. I used to love them as a little girl and now I love that Buga get so thrilled when she sees it coming through our mail slot. One of the first pages she turns to, without hesitation is the Kitchen section – she loves...
by jessicaperkins | Jul 19, 2011 | food, home school, kids, kitchen, nutrition, snack, tot, tot school, treat
I am always trying to come up with ways Buga can help me in the kitchen. She loves cooking – and eating – and I find that when she participates in cooking, she is more likely to eat our creations. It’s a great way to teach beginning food Science, and...
by jessicaperkins | Jun 13, 2011 | bento, box, face, faces, food, fruit, happy, lunch, nutrition, vegetables
Grandma brought this Happy Food Face out to Buga when she was having a picnic in the backyard. Her goal was to get Buga to want to eat it…but Buga said it was too pretty and she didn’t want to mess it up! We ate it anyway 🙂
