For their Power Your Lunchbox Program, Produce for Kids has whipped up dozens of family-tested lunchbox ideas. And each one is approved by a registered dietitian. Not all of their ideas are dairy free, but most are easy to adapt, and they provide so much wonderful inspiration. For a sample, they recently shared their Banana Sushi Rolls recipe with us, and today it’s a Brown Bear Bento Snack Box!
Special Diet Notes: Brown Bear Bento Snack Box
By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, optionally gluten-free, nut-free, peanut-free, optionally soy-free, optionally vegan, plant-based, and vegetarian.
Brown Bear Bento Snack Box with Rainbow Fruit Salad
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If your bento box has additional compartments, you can also add 1 tablespoon hummus or dairy-free dressing and three mini sweet peppers, sliced into strips.
Author: Produce for Kids
Serves: 1 snack box
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon sunflower seed butter, soy butter, or pea butter
- 3 graham cracker squares (gluten free, if needed)
- 3 banana slices
- 9 blueberries
- Fresh colorful fruit, chopped (such as raspberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, honeydew, blueberries, and blackberries)
Instructions
- Spread the peanut butter or school safe option on the graham crackers and place them spread side up in a single layer in a bento box.
- Place the banana slices and blueberries on top of the nutty butter to create eyes and noses that resemble bear faces.
- Put the colorful fruit In another compartment of the bento box to create a rainbow fruit salad.
Key Ingredients & Tools: Brown Bear Bento Snack Box
More Fun & Healthy Lunchbox Ideas
Banana Sushi Rolls (vegan, optionally gluten-free & allergy-friendly)
Apple Fries (vegan, optionally gluten-free & allergy-friendly)
5 No-Prep School-Safe Lunches (vegan, optionally gluten-free & allergy-friendly)
