Bento for Baby 35: Blueberry Muffin and Lentil Salad

In her bento on this lovely day Baby Girl had a mixed grain and blueberry muffin from the freezer for breakfast/morning snack.  She also had one sun butter oatmeal ball and some organic strawberries. For lunch she had some roasted vegetable and lentil salad that I made for dinner the night before. With the salad I packed some sugar snap peas, half an organic pear and two small pieces of homemade whole wheat bread.  My husband, Dan, has been making all the bread we eat at home for the past few years using the recipes from the excellent cookbook, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking.  Papa's bread is one of Baby Girl's favorite things.  I'm pretty fond of it myself.

I made the lentil salad by tossing some french lentils with some roasted beets, butternut squash and figs.  I dressed the salad with nice balsamic vinegar and olive oil and topped it with some organic feta and toasted walnuts.  For dinner we ate it on a bed of lightly dressed arugula.  For a quick dinner that I made up on the fly, it turned out pretty tasty, and rather beautiful, as well.  Baby Girl enjoyed the lentils, cheese and walnuts, but was skeptical of the roasted vegetables and fruit.  It has been difficult getting her eat many vegetables that are mixed with other foods recently, but I keep trying!  

Bento for Baby 30: Zucchini Apricot Muffin and Beet Risotto

For Baby Girl's lunch on the second day of the new school year she had some delicious leftover roasted beet risotto from dinner the night before.  The risotto was packed in a 4 ounce glass canning jar so that it could be reheated in the microwave.  I packed food for the rest of her lunch and snack together in the largest container of the Kids Konserve Nesting Trio Stainless Steel Containers with Leak-Proof Lids.  I gave her half a banana, one whole wheat zucchini and apricot mini muffin from the freezer, some sugar snap peas and some blueberries. I left it up to her teachers to decide what food to give her if she needed a little something extra with her morning snack of school provided fruit.  She ate everything in the large container, but didn't eat any of the risotto, which she had enjoyed the night before.  So, I'm not sure if she ate everything in large container for lunch and didn't have room for risotto, or if she just didn't care for the risotto the next day.