Roald Dahl Day!

Today is Roald Dahl Day! It's the author & inventor's birthday :) It also happens to be International Chocolate Day, how perfect is that? 
Of course I had to make my little bookworms celebratory lunches!

I filled Bella's EasyLunchbox with references to a few of the Roald Dahl books she's read. Can you guess which ones?

• A peach silicone cup full of green grapes represents the little green things in James and the Giant Peach, and sits atop more green grapes.
• Golden tomatoes and cucumber chunks are skewered on candy picks for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There's also a little birthday hat pick in one of the tomatoes, for the author's birthday :)
• I wrote Golden Ticket on a yellow-lidded EasyLunchboxes Mini Dipper (with dry erase marker) and filled it with fresh diced peaches - a reference to both the aforementioned books.
• A squirrel with a nut silicone cup holds a chocolate dipped peanut butter ball I made. Got to have some chocolate in there!
• Ham & cheese sandwich books topped with alphabet picks represent her favourite book, Matilda.

I love the book sandwiches. Bella had requested a Matilda lunch, and boy did I wrack my brain over what to make!  The only food I could think of was Bruce Bogtrotter's chocolate cake, and Chocolate Day or not, I wasn't giving her a lunch full of cake! Plus it was late last night when I started thinking about today's lunch, and I didn't feel like baking :) Then this morning, the gloriumptous book idea came to me, wheee!

To make the book sandwiches, I rolled bread flat, wrapped it around slices of cheese and ham "pages", and secured it with alphabet picks. I think I did a whiz-bang job! Bella knew right away what they were :)

Update: I made a new book bento for Dahl Day 2014, with even better bookwiches!

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Pickle's pickiness doesn't give me much to work with. He chose an ice cream cone Lunch Punch for his sandwich. He takes 2 yogurts now, one for lunch, one for snack. One is in a little Tupperware cup because I only had one individual Chobani Champion. I added a few words to the top of it, in reference to another Dahl favourite: Danny, the Champion of the World :)

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I'm a longtime Roald Dahl fan, so making this lunch was phiz-whizzing fun for me! I was inspired to get out my old Roald Dahl Club Great Big Box I've had since I was young and have a look through it, for old times' sake. Sorry, can't show you what's inside - members only :) That's my Charter Member Peach Stone and Club Pin on top though,  still got 'em!

Oooh, if you're a fan too, you'll like this... While trying to think of ideas for the Matilda lunch, I wandered around the web and stumbled upon a marvelous blog: Yummy Books. A food blog inspired by books, yes, please! 

And don't miss these scrumdiddlyumptious Roald Dahl Day lunches by some of my bento blogger friends:

• Lunches Fit For A Kid
• Zoe's Lunchbox
• Lunch With Eyeness

Have a splendiferous Roald Dahl Day!