Lion Bento Lunch

Roooaaaarrrr! It's a lion of a bento lunch. This big cat bento features a new-to-me technique I've come to call displacement. You can see it in the face on the apple flower.

I did this by first cutting an apple into equal-width slices and used a vegetable punch to create the flowers. Then I created the face by punching out the expression from the apple flower and filling in the space with the same expression cut from strawberry fruit leather. Cool!

Rounding out this lunch are cucumber slices topped with a lion bento pick and cheese columns pierced with a big cat bento pick. And the centerpiece of all the elements is a little lion bento container which holds four jellybeans for a little nibble of dessert.

Happy Bento'ing!
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