Today I’m starting a new series on the blog a food alphabet of Alphabet Themed Lunches! I was asking Small Child if he had any ideas for his lunches a few weeks ago and he asked if I could make a lunch for each letter. I thought it was a great idea (if only because it provides the inspiration for 26 lunches!), and we immediately sat down to come up with a basic list of foods and objects beginning with each letter of the alphabet. We’ve been working our way through the alphabet one letter at a time, beginning with A, of course! Some letters are proving to be trickier than others, but A was nice and easy.
In his A themed lunch Small Child had Apple slices, decorated with Aeroplane picks, chicken salad sandwiches (made using some Warburtons sandwich thins which were in a hamper that I recently won, thanks Warburtons!) decorated with carrot Arrows, cucumber slices and carrot As, a mini Babybel cheese with a leaf bento pick added to make it look like an Apple, and an A cut from the wax to decorate, an Ant (plastic, for decoration only!), rolls of chicken skewered on A Alphabet food picks, a music note, representing the music pitch A, and last but not least some chopped dried Apricots.
Small Child really enjoyed his first alphabet bento lunch, and was full of ideas for the next one too! Can you think of any other foods or items beginning with A that I missed?
Grace
Items used to make this lunch:
Petit Mom says
What a fantastic idea! I'll certainly be doing this when my son starts school in September.
Grace says
Thank you, it's definitely providing me with a lot of inspiration!
Lucy says
Avocado!
Grace says
Ooooh, good one, I should have stuck some guacamole in there!
Donna says
I love this, my LP would love As in her lunch for her name! I need to invest in some more cutters x
Grace says
Thank you, Small Child is loving his alphabet lunches so far!
Terri says
What alphabet cutters do you use? Your letters are much nicer than any cutters I can find 🙂 Thanks
Jess says
I would also like to know. I found a set, but they do not give a clean cut.
Grace says
Hi, for these lunches I used a plastic set that I've had for years, I've not been able to find them anywhere since though unfortunately. I have some slightly smaller plastic alphabet cutters in the Eats Amazing Shop which work quite well too: /shop/mini-bento-cutters/mini-alphabet-bento-cutters
If you struggle to get a clean cut with yours, try trimming them down afterwards with a small sharp knife to tidy up the edges. It really depends on what you are cutting too, for example I tend to struggle to cut pepper into shapes but carrot, cucumber and cheese are much better for bento cutters.
Hope that helps!
denise says
love this idea my son is starting K sept def doing this sooo cute thank you for the wonderful ideas
Grace Hall says
Thank you! I hope you enjoy making them as much as I did!