We Should Be Folding Laundry

For lunch today I packed some leftover mac and cheese from dinner last night in Cam’s Funtainer Thermos. The trick to keeping food warm in these thermoses is to pour hot water into the thermos and let it sit for several minutes before you add the hot food. Cam only has to wait a couple of hours before lunch time but I know that this method keeps food warm for several hours.

I also packed some Space Adventures Goldfish and chocolate chip cookies with red, green and white sprinkles in one tier. In the other tier I packed tomatoes and celery slices.

For today’s bento, I used a cutter from my new “Critter” Lunch Punch set. I’m not sure if that’s a whale or a dolphin you’re looking at because I threw the package away without checking. Cam says whale so in our house – it’s a whale. Either way, the “whale” Lunch Punch actually cuts two whales out of one sandwich and leaves very little bread behind.

I also packed Space Adventures Goldfish, half a stick of string cheese and some grape tomatoes.

I spent all of yesterday afternoon making decorated sugar cookies. I don’t normally put cookies in my daughter’s lunch but because I have so many, she may be getting a cookie with her lunch over the next few days. This is totally fine according to her.

Today I packed a chicken sandwich shaped like a cupcake. The cutter is from my “Sweet” Lunch Punch set. I also packed, pretzel sticks, tiny grape tomatoes and celery.

This bento box is one that we bought during a vacation to Epcot a few years ago. I love this box. It’s just the right size for the amount of food Camryn eats. The top tray that the cookie is sitting on fits right on top of the larger box. I’m sure it’s for chopsticks or other utensils but I usually cram more food onto it. 😉

For today’s bento I used the birthday cake Lunch Punch on Cam’s turkey sandwich. I also used it to make “icing” out of muenster cheese. The candle flames are just carrots that I cut by hand.

I also packed pretzel sticks, grape tomatoes and a homemade oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookie.

Remember that $10 gift card that Pottery Barn Kids sent me when I ordered Cam’s purple bento box?

I used it to order a set of lunch punches, which arrived yesterday afternoon.

When I opened the package guess what I found…

Another $10 gift card!!! Pottery Barn Kids rocks!

So naturally I went right over to my laptop and put that $10 gift card to good use and bought another set of lunch punches.

These sets are running anywhere from $11.99 to $15.99 on various sites right now. PBK has them for $15.99 and they ship free.

So after my gift card, I paid $5.35 for each set to be shipped right to my door. Thanks PBK!

Also, PBK.com is running a “deal of the day” promo right now and wouldn’t you know, the Spencer bento boxes that I featured last week were on it yesterday for $10 with free shipping. So if you’re in the market for some lunch goodies, keep checking PBK.com. You never know what you might find. And you may get a $10 gift card out of the deal as well which is always fun.

Getting back to the topic of today’s lunch…

Camryn has her first loose tooth which blows my mind because she’s only 5. And frankly, I’m a little sad that she’s losing her baby teeth so early. She has such pretty teeth that all sit perfectly right where they should in her mouth and the idea that one of them will be gone soon to be replaced by a hole and then a giant adult-sized tooth makes me want to cry.

My little lady requested softer foods for lunch today because it hurts Mr. Wiggles when she bites into crunchy foods like raw veggies.

So today, we packed a chocolate hazelnut spread sandwich that was cut using the gumball lunch punch from the “Sweet” set. We also packed grapes, string cheese and yogurt with sprinkles in the shape of autumn leaves in a separate container.

For today’s bento, I used a dough press to shape and seal hazelnut spread sandwiches. Of all my sandwich cutters, my dough press wastes the least amount of bread. Once rounds are cut out of the bread slice, there is only a small amount of crust that has been removed.

They’re super easy to use too. Just warm up the bread in the microwave for about 5 seconds, cut into rounds using the back of the cutter, then fill and seal. So easy my 5 yr old can do it. The trick to making it really seal is warming up the bread for just a bit.

I also put raw green beans, raw broccoli, tomatoes and grapes in today’s bento.

This lunch is packed in the free sandwich box we got from Rudi’s which is just a bit wider then a regular sandwich box.

The Rudi’s promo is over but I did some searching online and found this one which is a pretty darn close match: sandwich container

If you’re interested in the dough presses you can check them out here: dough press set