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HomeSmall AppliancesToaster Ovens / ToastersHawaii's Bento Box Cookbook: Fun Lunches for Kids |
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29 of 37 found the following review helpful:
 Wish it were as delicious and healthy as it is beautiful! Dec 27, 2008
By BookWRRM
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.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
cute book but.... Jan 25, 2010
By C. Chan
If you are looking for easy and fun ideas to decorate the lunch boxes / bento for your kids, this is not a bad book. But if you are really concern about putting artifical stuff in your children's tummy, I'm not sure if you would want to follow the instruction of this book. For instance, you will find something call "color mist" (food color spray) in a lot of the recipes ( which would turn food into color like blue, pink, purple..). I don't know about you, but I certainly won't put these coloring in my girls' tummy. It is so hard to avoid these articial coloring stuff in everyday / off the rack supermarket products already, I am not going to give my daughters an extra dose of these myself.....
Actually I have read in other bento blogs that teach people how to give our food some color using really natural ingredient ( eg like using egg york, beetroot etc), yes it would mean a little less convenivent than "spraying" whatever color you want on your children's food, but I think it is worth the trouble. Afterall, in my opinion, if you are not concern about setting up a healthy eating habit for your kids, you won't even be bothered to make them bento / lunch box anyway, won't you?
6 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 So cute for kids and adults too Jun 06, 2009
By Nikki Douglas
I love all things kawaii and the food here certainly falls into that category. I am vegetarian so much of what is in this cookbook would have to be modified for me but you could actually easily use Tofurky cold-cuts to make many of the adorable characters for the bento boxes. This would actually be much healthier too!
I would love to see the author do another book - perhaps one with more vegetarian options?
I think the design of the book is excellent too - more Americans should get into bento!
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Creative and Fun Oct 05, 2008
By Tom
"Tom"
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.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Cute and easy recipes! Feb 15, 2009
By Manga Cruiser
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!
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