I have a tradition of sharing my favorite bento from the year. This year I am joining my Bento Bloggers & Friends in a Top 13 of 2013 link party. Please use the button at the end of this post to see some amazing bento ideas.
This bento delighted me. I thought it was so cute that I almost did not want to eat it. So of course it made my top 13.
I picked this one to include because it seems unique. I assembled a lemonade stand from tortillas and used candy for the pitcher and lemonade. The pasta is lemon pasta and of course I had to add lemon tartlets and raspberries.
This is another one I choose because it is different than the others. I polled my readers to see what type of bento they wanted me to make and they picked “interesting colorful food layout (not character)”. I was happy with the result.
I love working with homemade bread. This bright spring lunch is my favorite homemade bread lunch from the year.
This is a favorite because of the pussy willows. I was so pleased that I was able to recreate them out of food. One set is savory and one sweet.
The result of this birthday lunch was different from my original plan but it ended up being better than my plan. The pretzel twists looked like candles so I added cheese flames.
I make a lot of quesadilla lunches because it is so easy to make tortillas cute. I love how this Australian flag turned out.
When I started to think about my top 13 this oak leaf potato salad was an easy one to put on the list. I loved cutting out and eating the potato and bell pepper oak leaves.
It probably is obvious from the name of my blog, I love sheep and lambs. Last May I shared a series of nursery rhyme themed lunches that included sheep. I picked this one as a favorite because I love the mashed potato sheep and blue cheese boy.
This Mr. Potato Head is my favorite from a twice baked potato series. I flipped him upside down. It made for a fun and filling meal.
I picked this one because it was fun to make and stands out from the others.
A very simple lunch but I loved the result.
This was made for Dinosaur and Volcano day during my special preschool camp. I made several versions of the volcano pizza and this was my favorite.
Linking to:
Eclectic Lamb 
Lovely collection of posts! Happy New Year!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
Have a gorgeous 2014
You too! Happy New Year!
Love them all, happy New Year!
Thank you!
Love them all! Happy 2014!!! my fav is the chococat! so cute!
Thank you so much Shirley!
Such a fun collection and nice work on the collage! Happy New Year!
Thanks Deb! Collages are a struggle for me but I am trying.
Wonderful collection! So healthy and yummy! Happy New Year!
Thank you so much!
Great collections! I love them all. Happy 2014 🙂
Thank you! Happy New Year!
Great presentation, thank you for sharing! Happy New Year.
Thank you!
Great collection of bentos! Have a wonderful new year!
Thank you Keitha!
These are great, Kathy. You are so creative. I love Mr. Potato head!
Thank you so much Tracy! Happy New Year!
Fantastic! Have a wonderful 2014,Kathy!
Thank you, you too!
Wonderful collection, Kathy! Happy 2014!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
Don’t know which is my favourite… maybe the oak leaves, always loved that one, but saw some I missed the first time too, overall, love them all!
Thank you so much Cristi!
really fun ! I love the Oak Leaf and Lemonade Stand.
Thank you Amanda!
These are all great. I love the mashed potato sheep from little boy blue! Somehow I missed that one this year. Happy New Year!
I admire all the tons of ideas put out throughout the year. Your top picks are my fave too.
Thank you!
Love the Charlie Brown
Thank you! It was fun to make.