Bento

Natalie has been staying at daycare all by herself for almost a month (my nanny used to stay there with her before she resigned). Besides she doesn't like going to daycare (I have been avoiding to talk about this topic because this is a very long one to blog ), one of the challenges is she doesn't eat her lunch. Sometimes she eats only a few bites and the lunch box looks untouched, sometimes she eats about half of it. So, every night when I prepare her lunch box, I try to put in many varieties and hoping that she will be interested in at least one of them the next day. However, it is quite hard to figure out what she'll eat. I see her eating one thing one day, when I give the same thing to her again the following week, she doesn't eat it anymore .

I have also tried making the lunch looks cute (like the picture shown here). As you see, there's scallion pancake, pork w/ mushroom, sweet potato (cut in flower shape and bear shape), edamame and salmon rice ball. But she only ate about 1/3 of it, and most of what she ate was scallion pancake (she likes anything that's similar to pizza).

Sigh ... I guess I just have to keep trying until I have figured out a set of food items that she will definitely eat at daycare ... .