I have seen these adorable mini puddings in several people's bentos and, since pudding is one of Nate's favorite desserts, I wanted to try them. Too bad they seem to be sold out everywhere online. Anyway, I decided to make my own version. The pudding is Chocolate Cornstarch Pudding made from scratch, which is super easy, but involves every bit of one's attention. Keeping little people from climbing onto my counters and emptying out my pantry distracted me from constantly stirring, which resulted in a lumpy pudding. Oh well. It was still tasty. I crumbled Oreos on top of one of my servings, and that camouflaged the texture nicely. I was planning to do this for Nate, but found that he had already polished off the Oreos the night before. So pffffttt to him.
Anyway, back to the bento. You may recognize the little pudding cup from a couple weeks back. That is one of the 2 ounce screw-top containers I use to freeze and store baby food. The lid wouldn't fit inside the lunchbox, but the pudding was set enough to stay put. Also included are: strawberry shortbread cookies (a post-Valentine's Day sale item at Aldi), radishes, carrot and celery sticks, thin-sliced turkey and cheese on a whole wheat sandwich thin.
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