{"id":14012,"date":"2012-08-17T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2012-08-17T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T22:49:10","slug":"whats-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/whats-for-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s for lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! This is Jacq bringing you today’s sweet shoppe post. My eldest daughter will be in elementary school next year thus she needs to bring lunch at school. So now I am doing lots of research online on how to prepare easy and appetizing lunch for her, she is a picky eater so making something I know she will eat at school is important. I want to start making them now to see what works and what doesn’t so come next year I won’t be fumbling with supplies and food while I try to do other things such as preparing her school things and making sure we reach the school on time.<\/p>\n

The first thing I did was to go to Pinterest for ideas and inspiration, and I found a few sites which has pictures of those bento type luncbox sets and I knew I wanted to try to make my own. Making food look fun and interesting seem to be a way to make my picky eater eat more. So I went to Daiso (a japanese store that sells everything for $2 each) and bought some supplies. I was quite happy to find a lot of items I can use for my little project at the store, it is afterall a japanese store. Here’s what I got…<\/p>\n

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I was so happy with what I bought. The store was really a goldmine for those who want to stock up on their lunch making supplies, I had to restrain myself from buying more items and stick to what I needed. So the next day I was eager to get to work on my first lunchbox meal for my little girl, here’s what I came up with…<\/p>\n

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It is very basic but I’m proud of my first attempt. I used my bear rice shaper (sorry I don’t know exactly what it’s called but it’s used for rice) to cut up the cheese sandwiches then hold them together with the food picks, after that I used the silicone muffin holders to put rainbow goldfish and raisins on the side. Pretty simple isn’t? My daughter really loved it, I think the bear shaped sandwiches did her in. I made other variations the following day…<\/p>\n

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I was really glad my lunch making project was a success, I will practice more and try to add on more items and be more creative with food presentation. I will also find a good lunchbox that is leak proof and probably buy more supplies. ‘Til next time! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! This is Jacq bringing you today’s sweet shoppe post. My eldest daughter will be in elementary school next year thus she needs to bring lunch at school. So now I am doing lots of research online on how to prepare easy and appetizing lunch for her, she is a picky eater so making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":14013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14017,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions\/14017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}