Easter Bento Box Recipe

Every year, I try to come up with a funky low fat idea for Easter.

I've been longing for an excuse to buy some of these brightly coloured egg boxes in the supermarket, so my gorgeous Easter Bento Boxes gave me a great reason to do so!

How To Make My Easter Bento Boxes

A bento box is a traditional Japanese selection of edible goodies packed beautifully into little boxes in single portion sizes. Some are simple, some very ornate.

I've come up with my own version especially for Easter- a savoury one and a sweet one.

You can go to as much or as little effort as you wish with these-I've used shop-bought dips, little crackers, fruit, vegetables, sweets and treats.

You could use homemade dips, make tiny little sandwiches-whatever takes your fancy. Just try to make them colourful and vibrant and you can't really go wrong!

All of my Easter Bento Boxes work out to between 230-320kcal per box (5-7 WeightWatcher propoints) much less than an average Easter egg and much more fun!

YOU WILL NEED

Colourful egg boxes.

(You could use plain ones and decorate them with pens or washi tape. (My favourite!)

Colourful plastic eggs.

These were from The Works and cost £1 for a pack of six eggs.

I washed them thoroughly in hot soapy water and left them to dry on paper towels.

Six eggs are enough for two boxes as you use both halves separately.

Fluffy Easter chicks.

I would say these are optional but I don't really believe it. They are so cute and an absolute necessity!

This whole box was £2 from The Works.

The Savoury One

Take a selection of goodies and decide what you are going to fill your little egg-shapes with.

I weighed the dips into the egg containers. Just pop the whole box onto your scales, recalibrate back to zero and dollop in the dips. The plastic egg containers I used held 30g of dip.

These lovely Tesco Healthy Living dips worked out to approx.40kcal per 30g portion

(1 WeightWatchers propoint).

Add veggie sticks, slices of mini peppers and for a Springtime look, some chives and fresh mint.

If you have the time, decorate the lid of the egg box with washi/decorative tape and a couple of cheeky chicks!

The lid won't close fully once you've filled the boxes, but still look inviting and amazing like this.

I used:

30g Roasted Garlic Dip

30g Coronation Dip

30g Beetroot Dip

1/2 bag of Tesco Vegetable Crackers

Fresh veggies; cucumber, carrot & peppers

TOTAL: approx.230kcal (5 WeightWatcher Propoints)

The Sweet One

Repeat the process with sweet treats and plenty of fruit.

You could make some little washi tape flags using cocktail sticks. These look gorgeous and also help to pick out the grapes and marshmallows-especially if you fill one of your containers with fruity yoghurt for dipping.

The flag picks make it more fun to eat too! Egg boxes have perfectly-positioned holes to pop the flags into! It reminds me of a little sand castle.