Product Description

While fast food and quick lunches may be the norm, parents still want to provide fun and healthy meals for their children. A widespread trend sweeping Japan is the homemade specialty bento parents prepare for their children. This trend is now becoming popular in Hawaii and just in time is a new cookbook filled with fun, easy-to-make bento box recipes that will delight the eye and tickle the tummy. Sliced carrots become plumeria flowers; scrambled eggs become little chicks; a vegetable croquette becomes a puppy dog; and home lunch becomes something to look forward to. With recipes and step-by-step photos, any home cook can prepare these bentos for even the pickiest eater. Have fun. Make food and art and feed your child nutritious, delicious lunches that are picture perfect.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49578 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 152 pages

About the Author
Susan Yuen is a former Sous Chef at Palomino; former Acting Chef at Kincaids , and former co-owner of a local catering company. She began creating special bentos for her daughter not too long ago, and soon children at the school began asking her how to create these whimsical lunches.

Customer Reviews

Creative and Fun
This cookbook is a fun and creative way to spend quality time with your children or anyone making food that taste great and fun to eat.

Wish it were as delicious and healthy as it is beautiful!
This is a beautifully produced book with step-by-step pictures and really cute lunches. The only complaint I have is that most of the critters and characters in the lunches are made of bologna, cheese, hot dog, spam, or kamaboko (a type of fish paste) and are ornamented with seaweed and/or cake decorations. I was hoping these cute figures would be more healthy and/or edible. There are other recipes for Japanese foods but they had more salt and processed foods than I was expecting. I wanted a more American-ized take on bento boxes with fresh food and ingredients that are available in the average American grocery store. If you are looking for Japanese-style food for kids, though, you will love this! I am tempted to keep it as a reference for Play-Doh creations.

Cute and easy recipes!
Cute recipes and designs. Gave me ideas to use cookie cutters for other foods to make shapes and come up with other ideas. Good looking food too!