Read the ingredients list:  "Glucose, Sucrose, Dextrose, Corn Syrup, Honey, Sugar, Trace amounts of Wheat Flour just to hold the pieces together."  I love it!!!

Now, the grown up cereal from "Boring Acres"..."Gravel, Birdseed, Wood Chips, Corn Husks, Burlap Bags, Weeds, Dirt."  And notice, it's a "Regular" food, "No Sugar, No Fat, No Fun".  I'd say he has captured the essence of the two camps perfectly.

These two pages of this wonderful book demonstrate exactly why I love Obento.  Because if I make a bento lunch of Bowser, or Jack Sparrow, my boys will do their best to eat it even if it is made of gravel and burlap bags.  I think the 'packaging' makes the food more pleasant and more likely to be eaten.  Really...when I'm in the grocery store and I'm looking at two products side by side, many times the packaging influences me greatly.  Having a husband who works in this industry does tend to make me more conscious of packaging, but I'm a happy victim of it none the less.  Don't even get me started on Kleenex!  Why can't they just call my husband if they need some beautiful illustrations?  Who wants an ugly box of tissues sitting around for two or three weeks?  I've even cut open boxes I like and refilled them with the tissues out of an ugly box, just so I don't have to endure a bad piece of art!  But, I digress. 

Beautiful food is much more pleasant to eat.  Just use this to your advantage when asking your family to eat a food that may benefit the body more than the tongue.

"The first and most important point to remember is that eating should be a pleasure--do not eat purely for health, you won't live much longer, but it will feel like an eternity."  --Porter

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