Ah Monday — a fresh start to a new school week and a new week of bentos to plan and prepare! Just what I don’t need when I am feeling really crummy! I’ve got what is probably just a cold, no fever yet. But runny nose, sore throat and coughs, and I feel achy and miserable. Taking care of Baby L should be fun this week. The rest of the week may be simpler bentos, or maybe I’ll duplicate the cuter practice ones since they are no brainers since I’ve done them before. We’ll see.
Jicama, carrot, sweet potato, broccoli, watercress, strawberries, honeydew, black flame grapes. The beehive shaped sandwich is PB and honey (of course!) on whole wheat; the sesame seed “flight path” is black sesame seeds attached with honey. The bee is a wax covered babybel cheese, decorated with nori, honeydew wings, and a spaghetti noodle stinger. A couple of chocolate and biscuit mushrooms added to complete the look.
Total time: Very long.  Because of the cold, I was really out of it. I kept forgetting things I needed and had to go back to get them, which was very inefficient. I ended up cooking sweet potatoes and broccoli at different times because I spaced the sweet potato out, and so on. An hour at least, and it should have taken less than half that!
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