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Fresh, fun, organic lunches for kids (and their grown ups)

Made-from-scratch lunches designed to help kids explore new foods, enjoy more variety, and get the nutrients they need, all in ways that feel familiar and approachable. Helping pickier eaters expand their safe foods and giving more adventurous eaters the variety to keep their curiosity growing. Whole, organic, locally-sourced ingredients to create wholesome lunches that kids (and their grown ups) actually want to eat.

The 6am lunchbox spiral, gone

One less thing to stress about, one more thing to feel good about

You're already juggling enough. The "are they actually eating" panic, the "am I offering the right things" guilt, the endless veggie negotiations. We handle the whole thing: balanced, delicious boxes your kid gets genuinely excited about, packed with all the nutrients they need, and sometimes don't even realize they're devouring.

You're handling everything else. Let me handle lunch.

FAMILIAR FOODS, NEW FLAVORS

NOURISHMENT MADE APPROACHABLE

NUTRITIONIST & PICKY EATER APPROVED

VARIETY TO KEEP EXPLORING

What's on the menu this week

My goal is to make familiar favorites a little more exciting and introduce new ingredients in ways that feel fun, approachable, and delicious. Every box is made from scratch with wholesome ingredients, giving little eaters the chance to try something new, discover what they love, and maybe surprise themselves along the way.

​WEEK OF 9/21

 

Monday:

No School

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Tuesday:

Secret Garden Bucatini

Bucatini topped with a rich sauce secretly packed with spinach, zucchini, bell peppers, garlic, onions, and San Marzano tomatoes, roasted and blended into their favorite bite of the day.

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Farmers Market Crudité with Homemade Ranch

Crunchy seasonal veggies with creamy homemade ranch for the best chance of the veggies being eaten!

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Golden Hour Granola Bars

Chewy golden oats, juicy dates, tart dried cherries, wholesome seeds and a few morsels of white chocolate come together in a dreamy little bar made for bright days and hungry bellies.

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Wednesday:

Breakfast Sandwich on Homemade English Muffin

Farmers market eggs baked with ham, chives and a light sprinkle of cheese in the middle of toasted homemade bread.

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Farmers Market Fruit

A little rainbow of the sweetest fruits our local farmers produce.

 

Mini Maple Apple Swirlies

Soft, swirly cinnamon rolls filled with farmers market apples and finished with a maple-cinnamon glaze.

 

Thursday:

Organic Grass-Fed Slider Melts

Organic, grass-fed beef sliders with sweet onion and farmers market shallots between buttery homemade buns.​

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Trifecta of Toppings

Heirloom tomatoes to add sweetness and acidity to the burger, wild arugula for a sharp crunch and Beam's creamy slider sauce (similar to a drive-thru special sauce, but if that sauce grew up, looked at a factory label, and immediately went organic). 

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Almond Sweethearts

A chewy almond cookie with a sweet jam heart in the middle and a secret ingredient: chickpeas! The almonds and chickpeas pack each sweet bite with protein and fiber for steady brain power.

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Friday:​

Pesto Caprese Fusilli

A delicious, bright homemade basil pesto, sweet farmers market cherry tomatoes, creamy mozzarella pearls and organic cannellini beans for an invisible boost of plant-powered protein.

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Melon Ball Skewers

A colorful selection of seasonal melons from local family farms.

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"Cake" Pops

Oats, cashews, dates and honey blended into soft, chewy bites then dipped in chocolate offering a burst of fiber, protein, nutrients and energy with all the fun and whimsy of actual cake pops.

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About Beam Bento

Who We Are

Beam Bento is a passion project that became real.

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After a round of mass layoffs in the tech world, I decided it was time to pursue a dream. The idea of making Beam Bento a reality had always been in me, and finally, it felt like the right time to make it happen.

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Beam Bento was first born out of a combination of a love of food, a love of kids, and a deep understanding of the mental load parents carry when it comes to packing lunches and worrying about whether their kids are getting the nutrients they need.

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The idea that this passion could lift some of that weight, that it could take just one more thing off a parent's mind, felt like exactly the right path.

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But it isn't just about getting nutrients in, because it's not always that easy.

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Before food can be loved, it often has to feel safe and comforting to a child. My mission with Beam Bento is to introduce nutrients in familiar ways, show kids how delicious new-ish foods can be, and slowly expand their willingness to be a little bit more adventurous with food.

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Sometimes that looks like my cauliflower mac and cheese, which visibly only looks like the macaroni they are used to, but the flavors are deepened with an equal amount of heirloom cauliflower blended right into the sauce.

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Other times, it looks like a variety of cucumbers with homemade ranch. The concept to me is simple: take a vegetable many kids are already comfortable with, like a cucumber, and offer them multiple varieties of the same thing. This creates a chance that they may be willing to try something “new-ish.” And the homemade ranch just helps seal the deal.

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I also shop for my boxes primarily at our local farmers market because I know that with many kids, we have one chance, one bite, to prove that a new food can be good and worth trying. When something is in season and freshly grown, it is at its maximum deliciousness. That's how we secure bite two. 

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At Beam Bento, I take your kids' eating, health, and love of food seriously, because I take my own kids' eating, health, and love of food seriously.

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I hope Beam Bento feels like a little moment of joy in the middle of their day, a lunch they are excited to open, curious to explore, and proud to finish.

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I am so excited you are here, I am so excited for your kids to try the lunches, and I am so excited that Beam Bento is officially real.

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Happy eating!

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