🥙Creamy Hummus Bento Box
Extra-smooth homemade hummus with dippers to match: pitta triangles, carrot and cucumber sticks, sweet pepper strips and grapes. A colourful, plant-powered lunch kids love to dip.
🥗 Nutrients per child portion
Estimated — % of what a 1–3 year old needs in a day
📚 Official guidance we checked it against (10)
- AAP — Choking prevention (HealthyChildren.org)
- CDC — Choking hazards
- CDC — Four steps to food safety (safe internal temperatures)
- CDC — Added sugars (children under 2: none)
- FDA — Food allergies (major allergens)
- FDA/EPA — Advice about eating fish
- NHS — Foods to avoid giving babies and young children
- NHS — Salt: the facts
- NHS — What to feed young children
- WHO — Healthy diet fact sheet
Last checked 2026-10-17. Estimates, not medical advice.
⚠️ Safety tip: This hummus has no added salt. For toddlers (1-3 years), serve a smaller measured portion, about 2 tablespoons of hummus with one pitta triangle no bigger than half an inch (1.3 cm) and a few vegetable sticks. Always quarter the grapes, lightly steam the carrot, cucumber and pepper strips until soft, and cut pitta triangles no bigger than half an inch (1.3 cm) for all ages, to prevent choking.
Contains: Wheat · Sesame
🌱 How it helps them grow
The chickpeas and tahini in this hummus provide plant protein and fibre, which support healthy digestion. Dipping pitta and soft vegetable sticks into the hummus gives small hands practice with scooping and self-feeding, and offering different colours and textures like carrot, cucumber and pepper helps children get used to a varied diet.
🤓 Did you know?
Chickpeas grow inside small pods, and most pods hold just one or two chickpeas each, so it takes a lot of pods to fill a bowl of hummus!
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👶 How to serve it by age
🍼 1–2 years
Quarter the grapes, lightly steam the carrot, cucumber and pepper strips until soft, and offer soft torn pitta pieces no bigger than half an inch (1.3 cm), with just a smear of hummus (about 1 tablespoon).
🧸 2–3 years
Quarter the grapes, lightly steam the carrot, cucumber and pepper strips until soft, and let them dip pitta triangles cut no bigger than half an inch (1.3 cm) themselves while you watch, with about 2 tablespoons of hummus.
🎒 3–5 years
Serve as a full bento with grapes quartered, carrot, cucumber and pepper strips lightly steamed until soft, and pitta cut into triangles no bigger than half an inch (1.3 cm), letting them build their own bites.
🛒 Ingredients
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👩🍳 Step by step
1Step 1 of 5⏱️ 1 minBlend the tahini first
Blend the , lemon juice and garlic in a food processor for 1 minute until pale and thick. This step is the secret to extra-smooth hummus.
- 3 tbsp
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ clove garlic
✅ Done when: pale, thick paste
2Step 2 of 5⏱️ 3 minAdd the chickpeas
Add the chickpeas to the processor and blend for 2–3 minutes, stopping to scrape down the sides, until very smooth.
- 1 can (drained) chickpeas
✅ Done when: smooth, no visible chickpea pieces
- Step 3 of 5
3.Make it creamy
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- Step 4 of 5
4.Cut and soften the dippers
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- Step 5 of 5
5.Fill the bento box
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🩺 Foodie Mini follows WHO, AAP and NHS guidance for children aged 1–5. It doesn't replace your paediatrician: check allergies and textures with them.