What do I feed my toddler?

I am really lucky, my daughter is pretty willing to try things. She gets favorite foods and prefers them but a few weeks later that favorite has changed and she is on to something new. When she was tiny her favorite food was sweet potatoes. Around nine months she became obsessed with cheese, she loved it so much that it actually was the first "Baby Sign" that she used regularly.

She moved on to eggs, then Cheerios and most recently she is the world's greatest fan of the cracker, aka around here as "Cah-Cah." I was a very picky eater as a kid so I am grateful to have a mini foodie for a tot. She likes plenty of other foods, gorged herself on tamago (sushi) to the point of gagging, huge fan of taziki and any other form of yogurt. Fruits and veggies are good, prefers brown rice and brown bread to white.

So where am I leading? Soon I will be back to work fulltime and my dear daughter will be going to "school," okay, its just daycare but it has a curriculum so that makes it school. They provide hot lunches (just like school) for a nominal fee or will happily feed your child the lunch you pack. This got me thinking, if she is doing so well now with all of the foods she eats...do I really want to get her on a mac 'n cheese and fish sticks regime?

Don't get me wrong, I have fed her both of those, neither is her favorite (yet) but since she loves fresh fruits and veggies and whole grain pasta - how can I encourage and continue that without creating hours of extra work for myself? I am on a mommy message board with fifteen other moms who gave birth within a few weeks of my daughter's birthday. There a kids who will eat anything, kids who will eat one thing, kids with allergies, kids with siblings with allergies, so the question of what to feed our toddlers has been coming up a lot.

My answer - being a creative person, a little swayed by current trends, and passionate about my own food - Baby Bento! I am creating this forum to help other moms share ideas about what to feed their kids, how to make it fun and easy and get a chuckle every now and then out of making a meal.