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Bento Box Competition

To give you all a boost with your back to school lunch boxes, here at Mum & Babe we have come up with the best competition ever!

Here is what you can win. A beautiful Japanese Bento Box in the shape of a Bear. The Bento Box has two separate compartments and snaps together with a black elastic strap slipped over the whole box. Top shelf dishwasher safe. We have filled this box with lots of goodies to get you excited about lunches.



An egg molder! I know I know I didn't know what an egg molder was either, it's really simple and will tempt even the fussiest eater. There are two shapes to choose from a cute little bunny and a divine little teddy bear. It works like this you peel the boiled egg while it's still super hot and fit it into one side of the mold and then slowly close the two sides together and snap on the clips. The container is then placed in a bowl of cold water for ten minutes or so and when you open it up you have the most adorable little bunny or bear shaped egg.



We have also added in the cutest little food separators, these are used to section off different areas of the lunch box and organize the appearance. And little animals in the shape of toothpick forks. Oh we do love these. Of course we couldn't stop there we have a cutter for little sausages! Yes that's right, you can place little hot dogs into the mold and it cuts them into little sand crabs. They are so cute. We have a rice ball maker, that makes beautifully shaped rice onigiri. You can stuff these with leftover spaghetti meat sauce or ham and cheese the possibilities are endless.


These little hot dog sand crabs don't last long in the box!


And to give you a little bit of inspiration...



The ice cream is another egg mold and hand painted with food colouring. The Strawberries are made from cheese and again hand painted with food colour, topped with little sesame seeds. Oh so Divine!


This beautiful monkey face is a slice of cheese that has been painted with food colouring, on top of a crispy chicken pattie. Wow!






The Japanese Bento Box is traditionally filled on a ratio of 4:3:2:1.

4 parts rice
3 parts vegetables
2 parts meat or seafood
1 part condiments and or sweets

With this in mind your lunch box can be filled with anything. Leftovers are the best and easiest way to add small amounts of yummy portions to your child's Bento Box. Over the next few weeks we will post some great easy to do simple recipes, for even the fussiest of eaters.

Some of the staff here at Mum & Babe have favourite ways of cutting sandwiches with cookie cutters, cookie cutters are a great way to cut vegetables and fruits as well. It really is about having fun. Your little groovers will not know what happened to mum when they open these types of lunch boxes, they will be too busy ohhing and arhhing to remember they don't like beans!

Don't forget about Nori sheets. If you haven't ever used them they are wonderful. You can cut them with scissors into strips and wrap food together. You can use a stationary shape puncher to cut out any shape possible to decorate. We have used a hole punch (A clean one of course!) to make eyes for little eggs. It is so nutritious and healthy and even the most sensitive eater will love egg monsters with eyes.

Well how can you win this wonderful prize? It's easy all you have to do is tell us in 25 words or less why you would love to win this Bento lunch box inspiration. Mum & Babe will award the best entry with this wonderful Bear Paws Bento Box and loads of accessories valued at over $90.00! Click here to fill in your details and write your enrty. Good luck!