Book-ish Bento Lunch for Roald Dahl Day

Yesterday would have been beloved author Roald Dahl's 99th birthday! We love his stories so much.  In observance of Roald Dahl Day, I made my 7th grader a Dahl-icious bookish bento lunch, featuring a Giraffe & Pelly & Me "bookwich", strawberries with a giraffe fork, checkered cucumber slices, carrot sticks, & a cocktail tomato with a "Read" pick.

The bookwich is a turkey & white cheddar tortilla sandwich. I stacked deli meat & cheese slices on the right half of a tortilla, folded the left half over the stack, & trimmed it to a book shape. I used food colouring pens to illustrate the cover in the style of one of our books. That's meant to be the giraffe & the pelican... *sigh* ... I decided I'd better not even attempt to add Billy or the monkey...  I'm no Quentin Blake!

Splendiferous, but small. I folded the scraps, along with another couple of slices of cheese & turkey, into a little bundle & secured it with a long food pick, then packed it in the bento box where it would be covered by the bookwich. More filling for my middle-schooler, & no waste. Whiz-bang!

The bundle also raises the bookwich to the top of the bento box. Filling as much of a bento box's space as possible keeps a scrumdiddlyumptious lunch from becoming a muckledy mess on the way to school!

I packed her lunch in my new nested snack pots / bento boxes! I ♥ them.

They're really, really new - they only just arrived the day before Dahl Day,

all the way from The Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre in the UK! The lids feature Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations & quotes from Matilda, The Enormous Crocodile, & George's Marvelous Medicine.

I've had a lot of fun over the years making Dahl Day lunches for my sproutlets.  In fact, it was while making one that I was first inspired to make a bookwich,  a type of sandwich with layers of cheese(s) & sometimes deli meat folded between bread or tortilla to resemble a little book. It's become a favourite with my sproutlets, that to their delight was even featured in the September issue of Family Fun magazine! They're so proud of their lickswishy lunches & of their phizzwizard mum for making them :)

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Have a whoppsy-whiffling Roald Dahl Day!

Wait, there's more!

Some of the Bento Bloggers & Friends have a blog hop of bento tributes to Roald Dahl to share with you! Click the big button below to hop to Yummy Bites By Amy, then keep hopping until you're back here, & you'll know you've seen them all. And when you're done with the hop, why not have some food fighting fun with Mr. & Mrs Twit in their new app, Twit or Miss!

PS - Today is my birthday! 

You didn't know though, so I'm not expecting a present... but how about sharing our blog hop via your favourite social network? It's free! :)

A Bookish Bento for Roald Dahl Day

It's Roald Dahl Day tomorrow! In honour of the beloved author's birthday, some blogger friends & I are making Dahl-icious lunches & doing a blog hop! I made my Bella a bookish bento, with turkey & Asiago cheese tortilla books! I made Fantastic Mr. Fox, Esio Trot, Matilda, & The BFG:

The book sandwiches were super easy to make. I cut tortillas in rectangles & used food markers & stamps to make the covers. I cut cheese & turkey in smaller rectangles & stacked them for the pages, then folded the tortilla book covers around them. These were a big improvement on the ones I made for 2012's Dahl Day lunch.  I had come up with the whoppsy-whiffling idea for them just that morning, & only had cheddar & white bread. I've long been meaning to remake them with white cheese & brown bread, but Bella prefers sandwiches made with tortillas over bread - which worked out even better since tortillas are much easier to stamp & draw on!

I love how my new & improved edible books turned out! Here they are in my 6th grader Bella's EasyLunchbox. She also had some broccoli & grape tomatoes with a "Read" pick, & grapes with a chocolate bar pick - it's the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

And look, I had the perfect Lunchbox Love for Kids joke note to go with it :) Oh, I also tucked in a tiny pack of Wonka Gobstoppers ;) Hallowe'en candy!

Even the flip side of the Lunchbox Love note was just right :) I had a great foxy cloth napkin from Beneficial Bento too:

This book bento was such a fun lunchy use for my Stupendous Stampers :)

And in case you missed them, here are some of my sproutlets' splendiferous lunches from Dahl Days gone by :

 

2012's bento had elements from James & the Giant Peach, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, & Matilda. One of 2013's (above) was all James & the Giant Peach, & the other (below) was mostly the BFG, with a smidge of Danny the Champion of the World. 

Now, it's time to get jumpelling over to Robot Squirrel and the Monkeys to see what luctuous lunches Eileen has made:

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Some stuff used to make this bookish bento:

Marvelous Things Will Happen!

It's Roald Dahl's birthday! We're big fans of the author's splendiferous works at our house. Sprout even wants to be Matilda for Hallowe'en this year :) But since I made Matilda book sandwiches last Roald Dahl Day, I decided to base this year's Dahl-icious lunches on other favourites...

In Sprout's James and the Giant Peach lunch:

• a little peach cup of sliced cheddar, secured by Miss Spider
• an EasyLunchboxes Mini Dipper* filled with magical glowing green "Crocodile Tongues" (chopped up gummi fruit snacks)
• an Odwalla Kids bar (no significance other than she wanted one)
• a stack of baby carrots held together by Mrs. Ladybug
• a giant peach cup of strawberries & raspberries with the Earthworm being "buggy for books"
• a blank Lunchbox Love note on which I've written a reminder: Marvelous Things Will Happen

*You can use dry erase markers to label or decorate both the EasyLunchboxes containers & the Mini Dippers!

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Does this lunch look right to you? Or left?

In Bella's lunch, inspired by The BFG:

• whizpopped caramel corn rice snacks 
• sleeping pill raisins (from Danny the Champion of the World)
• a chunk of snozzcumber
• giant's ears flatbread cheese sandwiches
• a Lunchbox Love note with a little ear fact 

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Have you made any scrumdiddlyumptious lunches or treats, today or any other day, that were inspired by Roald Dahl's books? 

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Find out more about the whoppsy-wiffling world of Roald Dahl : 

Roald Dahl ~ The Official Website  

Some stuff used to make my sproutlets' lunches:

 

Books featured & mentioned:

   

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!