Animal Friends Food Deco Cutter and Stamp Kit Frame 3 7/8 x 3 1/8 x 1 1/16 inches

I REALLY, REALLY love this. So there's different ways you can do the face and they're all easy but no matter how you do it, it's less than 2 minutes.Use the hollow punch to go all the way through the sandwich (I used the 2-bread, 2-cheese, 2-meat slice deli method of building the original sandwich). It's not as resistant as other sandwich cutters I have tried.Once your hollow cutter is all the way through to the bottom, flip the entire sandwich over. Every once in awhile you'll find that you missed one of the corners so either flip the sandwich back over and try to press through or just use your finger to press the sandwich against the missing cut without flipping the sandwich back over.Once the sandwich is completely cut, pull off the now-outer ring. If you're doing bento boxes, save the outer ring for decorating something. If you're not going to use it for decorating, use it for your breakfast or give it to your dogs. It is quite a bit of waste unless you use a large slice of bread and manage to get two presses. If you're doing gluten-free bread, though, you know the slices are always small so you lose about half the sandwich. (I prefer the Udi's White Sandwich Bread.) Also, if you use GF bread, you should warm it up a little in advance.Once the outer ring is removed, use the animal of your choice to push the sandwich back out. If you press hard enough, it will make the indentation. Until you are satisfied with the indentation that you end up with, though, don't take away the hollow cutter. You can leave the all or some of the indentations in tact or push through and make cuts in the top piece of bread. You can use the stick to flatten the indentation areas or to decorate the faces. You can remove all or some of the cut pieces of bread. How you want to make it cute is all your own!

Making a nutritious and enjoyable lunch is my way of showing love to my child even when we can't be together in the middle of the day. I have no artistic ability (you've seen those hilarious pictures of Pinterest fails? Yeah, I'm the type that can't succeed at even simple artistic directions) but I really want to make the cute lunches that I see on the internet.This little cutter makes it possible for even me to look like a supermom. It takes only about an extra minute, and it's really easy to make these cute animal sandwiches. I've also punched out shapes on slices of cheese from the deli. Very cute.So far, I have used whole grain bread and made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ham and cheese sandwiches. Both types worked great.My favorite animal is the bear because the holes are big enough to show up well and be extra-easy to punch out. The other ones are good too, but they have smaller pieces to deal with than the bear does.Two tips:1) If you position the cutter toward the far side of the bread, you'll have a nice chunk of sandwich left over after cutting out the animal, so you can include that nice piece also in the lunch instead of wasting the edges (or eating them yourself).2) The pig's nose has two pieces (nostrils) that have to be stuck on without being connected to the rest of the bread, so they don't stay in place as well. Instead, if you remove the nostrils and leave the main part of the snout on the sandwich (punched out but put back in--it stays in place better since it's in contact with the rest of the bread) it still looks like a pig and doesn't fall apart as easily.

It was really cute and fun to do with kids. Will I use them for daily basics? No. But it was definitely interesting to use them with kids to make lunches.

This is AWESOME for sandwiches!I use sliced bread and run a rolling pin through it once just to smooth out the bread before cutting the shape. I can make "pbj" sandwiches very fast like this:1.) Roll pin through each bread2.) Cut the outer shapes for the number of breads I'm making - 3 pieces for each sandwich, 1 of the pieces with the face cut-out. Put the bread scraps in a Tupperware or ziploc for use later.3.) Slap peanut butter or almond butter or any kind of butter I like on one piece of shaped bread then put another shaped bread on top. Slap whatever jelly I like on top of that, then top with the face. Yum.To cut ham you'll need some elbow grease to give the shapes a bit of twisting to dig through the thing. I find it easier to just run my bento exacto knife along the inner side of the mold.The extra bread I use to make croutons or french toast muffins or a breakfast casserole. My kids love french toast muffins so I'm always running out of bread scraps. Do a google search on Bento Bread Scraps Recipes and you'll get some ideas.

These work fine, although it took some practice to get really good results. I wish they came with better instructions for how to get good results. The cutters that cut the face features don't seem deep or sharp enough to really get a clean cut, I feel like they just smash the bread so I use the "cut" side to get a deep impression that stays until the sandwich gets eaten. It was totally my fault, but the poker piece went down the garbage disposal the second time I used these, so I haven't had that as an option to help poke pieces out. I use a chopstick now.I know it seems obvious but it took me a few tries to get the right technique for a PB&J. Here's how I do it: First use the face cutter to cut or make an impression in a piece of bread. Then spread jelly on the other side. Spread peanut butter on another piece of bread. Lay the first slice on top the second slice, face cuts up, and then use the outside cutter to cut out the whole sandwich.The best bread to use is the smaller "square" shaped loaves, larger/wider loaves like Pepperidge Farm or Arnold will leave a lot of waste.