Mommy Gets a "D" on Tuesday

The light is burned out above the stove, and that's the only place in the kitchen that I have enough light to take a picture of the bentos, so I haven't got any pics for yesterday & today.

Tuesday's lunch was pretty much a flop (though not entirely). It contained:

• :) Nutella sandwichettes cut into butterfly, sun, & moon shapes using metal cookie cutters. She loves the Nutella; miss picky will even eat them if I use brown whole-wheat bread on one half of the sandwiches!.
  
• :( Strawberry jam & vegan cream cheese (Tofutti "Better Than Cream Cheese"), also cut into butterfly, sun, & moon shapes. Normally she loves cream cheese & neufchatel cheese. She didn't know that I had used something different this time. So, I'm not sure if what she disliked was in fact the jelly/cream cheese combo as she stated, or if it was actually the Tofutti.
  
• :) No-bake Honeybees (recipe from The Vegan Lunchbox) on a bed of colorful candy-coated sunflower seeds.
• :| A lovely-looking plum with a butterfly cut out of its skin. She said the plum was too sour, but she "ate it anyway because she was starving" due to not liking anything else but the Nutella sandwichettes. Plums are normally one of her favorite fruits.
  
• :( Organic green seedless grapes topped w/carrots & the plum butterfly cut-out. This looked really pretty, with the dark purple-red skin of the plum against the bright orange grapes, with the green grapes underneath. But alas, this too was a flop. I think the "grape taste" she disliked on the carrots was actually some plum juice from the butterfly cut-out, even though I did think to put a small piece of waxed paper between the butterfly and the carrots. Or else I just made the FATAL and WELL-KNOWN MISTAKE of letting different foods contact each other! Also she normally likes green grapes, but these had a dark spot where they'd been plucked off the stem a couple of days ago, so of course miss picky complained that they were "rotten" and didn't eat them . Guess that's "D" in Mommyhood today, for failure to pay attention to details!
• :( Ice water w/a squirt of lemon juice in her reusable aluminum water jug. "Don't ever do that again, Mommy. It was sooooo sour, it made tears in my eyes!" In truth I probably did put in too much lemon juice; I've added a squirt many times at home & she likes it.