Getting kids to choose a healthy lunch over a processed “happy meal” is hard, but kids’ Bento Boxes can help!  Bento‘s are a Japanese tradition where food is made into fun and interesting shapes and while it looks like it takes hours, with the use of very inexpensive tools you can make them in minutes.  Here are some Bento Box ideas for kids (or the kid in all of us!).   We can’t help but love these Disney-inspired lunches – who wouldn’t love to open one of these!?!

The Muppets!
Animal and Kermit the Frog	Miss Piggy	Beaker
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Beauty and the Beast’s Cogsworth	Peter Pan	Disneyland or WDW It’s a Small World Ride
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Buzz Lightyear	Aliens from Toy Story	Pirates of the Caribbean or Jake the Pirate
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Phineas and Ferb	Cars & Cars 2	Mickey Mouse & Minnie
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Cinderella	Cinderella	Belle
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Ariel – The Little Mermaid	Aurora (Briar Rose) from Sleeping Beauty	Snow White
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