When you’re a mom of young children, cutting up food is a regular part of life.  Sometimes you cut it up to make things easier for your children to eat.  Sometimes, you just cut it up because bite-sized pieces are fun!  Sometimes it’s both.  FunBites has taken this truth and run with it, creating special cutters that make it easy to cut food into bite-sized pieces quickly.

If you’re familiar with one of those slicers that cuts an apple into wedges – these work on the same principle.  You place the cutter on top of the food and press down.  The creators have even addressed the problem of the food being stuck inside the cutter afterward; there’s a ” pusher” that you can insert into the top of the cutter to push the food back out.

They’re dishwasher-safe.  (Yay!  No scrubbing small crevices. 🙂 )  And the two designs – basic squares, and hearts – are made of plastic.  This makes them fairly safe for children to use themselves.  Unfortunately, we found that this also made them a little difficult to use.  Cheese is especially tricky, as the cutter just doesn’t want to push through.  With something softer, like fruit, it’s likely not a problem.

Besides making bite-sized snacks, cutters like this can be a relatively simple way to create food art, like this Rubik’s Cube.  Basic shapes can be combined to make larger designs.  For instance, the triangles and half-circles incorporated in the heart cutter were combined by the FunBites creators to make sailboats.  Small hearts make good butterfly or dragonfly wings.  I’d love to hear any other ideas you have for combining shapes!

Disclosure: I received the green FunBites pictured above, to facilitate this review.  As always, all opinions expressed here are entirely my own.