Bento Box with Dill Pickles

This bento box with dill pickles has a little bit of everything and makes a great lunch idea you can pack in 5 minutes or less.

While the name says dill, you better believe that jar of hamburger chips, bread, and butter, or homemade pickles will work just as well!

Easy Bento Box with Pickles

It’s not every day you come across a creative lunch idea like this one, but with the cheese, crackers, cherries, and crunchy dill pickle- it works!

Kids love it when their favorite snacks make it into the lunchbox, and thanks to a compartmentalized container, it’s possible to pack this variety of ingredients and keep everything from tasting and smelling like a pickle.

I’ll usually include a yogurt parfait for extra protein, but you could swap it out with rolled deli meat, leftover grilled chicken, or a couple of hard-boiled eggs; anything goes!

And this, my friends, is how you turn simple ingredients into a kid-approved lunch. Want more ideas like it? You’ll find them right here:

1. Keep pickles separate
   Due to their flavor, I recommend packing the pickles and olives into the same compartment, this will prevent the cheese and fruit from taking on their flavor. If you have whole pickles, you can cut them into smaller slices, so they fit.
2. Wet ingredients together
   The fruit and cheese can go in the same compartment. If you are adding rolled deli meat or hard-boiled eggs, you can pack them here as well.
3. Add the dry ingredients
   Place the crackers in their own compartment to prevent them from soaking up excess moisture.
4. 3-2-1 Take off!
   Close the lunchbox and add it to a lunch bag with an ice pack.

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