olympic blog hop!!

We are sooooo excited for the summer Olympics to begin here at our house! And so are a bunch of my bento blogging friends!  So excited, in fact, that we decided to have an Olympics themed blog hop to celebrate the opening ceremonies!  (I'm overusing exclamation points today, please forgive me.)

As you may know, creative, "cute" food is a challenge for me, but I decided to go for it this time.

And here is what I came up with...

 

In the largest section, I attempted to make a torch.  I started with a bed of the dark lettuce leaves from our spring mix.  Then I added some red and yellow peppers, along with some carrot shavings (used my peeler for these) to make the flames.  The torch portion is a stack of salami.

In the lower left, I have some ranch to dip the veggies in and Olympic rings made from green olive slices (one sunk just a bit).

In the top left section, I have some good ol' U.S. of A. red white and blue fruit mix..... blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and mini marshmallows.  

I made this a few days early to make sure I could pull it off and get a photo taken before the blog hop.  The kids were at golf camp when I made it and quickly devoured it as soon as they got home!  So it's not quite a lunch for my bigger kiddos (12 and 10), but it made a great snack.

Click the button below to see the fabulous creation at Healthy Eating Starts at Home!