Robot Bento Lunch

My son is obsessed with robots. In fact, occasionally he will lapse into the staccato-like cadence of a robot then pivot to superhero mode, so it's quite an interesting robot-superhero mashup.

It occurred to me one morning that a robot bento lunch would be a super cool thing to do, but I certainly didn't have any well-thought-out plans for how to create it.

I hit on the idea of using marshmallows and pretzel sticks to fabricate my edible robot, and I was pleased with how it turned out. More importantly, my little guy reacted to the site of the robot with the biggest grin I've ever seen that early in the morning!

As you can probably figure out, I simply constructed the robot using two marshmallows for the torso and head, and pretzels for the limbs and antennae. It is finished off with details drawn on using a food marker.

Mr. Marshmallow Robot stands amidst a pile of spare parts--pretzels, cheerios and mini marshmallows. The rest of this robotic bento lunch features mac and cheese and peas. Hey, that rhymes. Could be the beginning of  a cute kids' song...

The final touch was added with robot bento picks and the robot spelled out in cheese.

Happy Bento'ing!
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