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29 Oct

Camryn didn’t want a sandwich today. She asked for fruit and veg with a little chicken on the side. Her class eats fairly early and I’m finding that most days, she’s still full from breakfast so she hasn’t been eating all of her lunch. Other days she wasn’t even touching her lunch and when I asked her why she hadn’t eaten she said that she was too busy making up stories with her friend *eye-roll*. So obviously lunch isn’t high on her list of priorities at 10:45 in the morning.

Per her request, I made her a fruit salad of watermelon, orange segments and pineapple in the bottom tier. She has grape tomatoes, carrot sticks and sliced rotisserie chicken on picks in the top tier.

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Daily Bento

26 Oct

 

Happy Friday! Today’s bento has a slight Halloween theme happening. I used a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to make a jack-o-lantern chicken sandwich. I used a sharp knife to cut the facial features out of muenster cheese. I also used a small bat-shaped cookie cutter to make the two bat shaped sandwiches which are filled with Jif hazelnut spread.

The other tier has grape tomatoes, pineapple, Angry Birds graham crackers & caramel apple candy corn.

Daily Bento

25 Oct

 

 

Today is the Halloween parade at Camryn’s school. The kids put on their costumes at 2, march around the school & then promptly remove their costumes & go home. Why they aren’t doing this on Halloween instead of a regular Thursday is beyond me. Regardless, I made some chocolate glazed pumpkin donuts yesterday to help Cam get in the parade marchin’ spirit.

Next to those two donuts is a fruit salad of mandarin oranges & watermelon. She also has 3 teddy sandwiches in the other tier of her bento.

I also packed some crackers in a separate container so she’d have some salt to go with all that sweetness.

Daily Bento

24 Oct

 

 

Today’s bento has two little bunny-shaped nutella sandwiches & Scrabble Cheez-It crackers in the bottom tier. In the top tier, there is a fruit & cereal bar cut in half to fit in the bento, carrot sticks & star-shaped watermelon.

 

 

 

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23 Oct

 

 

I let Camryn choose what went into her Tuesday bento. She really wanted a muffin instead of a sandwich so I obliged and made her some blueberry muffins. Next to her muffin are some all-natural fruit snacks & a cup of pineapple. The other tier has sliced carrots & cheese sandwich crackers.

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22 Oct

Today’s bento has sliced carrots & grape tomatoes in the small section. In the opposite section there is a chicken sandwich (yes chicken) sitting on top of some all natural fruit snacks. I also put some Scrabble Cheez-Its next to the froggy sandwich.

Camryn ate a chicken sandwich on Saturday so I’m hoping she’ll eat it at school as well. Here’s hoping.

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18 Oct

Today’s bento has a piggy sandwich in the bottom tier. I had a few heart-shaped sprinkles left in my baking cabinet that I thought would be perfect to spruce him up a bit. The top tier has pineapple & mandarin oranges in the heart-shaped cup, grape tomatoes, and two skewers with salami and mozzarella cheese on them.

If you wondering why I’ve been making so many nutella sandwiches lately, it’s because my daughter has said on many occasions that she does not like sandwiches.  I’m trying to change her mind ever so slowly. At first, she was only taking a few bites of her nutella sandwich. Now she eats the whole thing. In time, we’ll slowly warm up to meats and cheeses as well as other fillings.

No school for my kids tomorrow which means not only that we’ll all be sleeping in past 5 tomorrow, yay! But also that Daily Bento will be back on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Cass

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Daily Bento

17 Oct

We’re back! It’s been a rough few days. The little one has been super sick so she’s been eating mostly veggie soup for lunch. She finally went back to school today after being home for a week so I thought she needed a super special bento for her first day back. Also, my new bento stuff showed up yesterday afternoon. Perfect timing!

Today’s bento has grapes and grape tomatoes with a little mozzarella bunny on one side. On the other side, I made a winky cat head nutella sandwich with my new Cute Z Cute cutters with pink glitter sprinkle ears & a pink sugar nose. It’s sitting on top of Space Adventure Goldfish. She loved it & so did the other kids at her lunch table. Winning!

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Daily Bento

11 Oct

 

 

Cam spent most of yesterday in bed or laying on the couch due to a stomach ache that seemed like it would never end. I know it was only one day but doesn’t time seem to just drag on endlessly when your tummy hurts?

Now that she’s feeling better & has her spunk back, I wanted to make sure that she had plenty to choose from at lunch time today.

I put mandarin orange slices & strawberries in one silicone heart, sliced carrots & tomatoes in a second silicone heart, and little heart-shaped sandwiches in the third. She had been totally anti-sandwich until I started making them in cute shapes. She’s slowly warming up to them.

She also has some pretzel crackers & a mixed berry fruit & cereal bar.

Cass

Daily Bento

10 Oct

Today’s bento has a double heart-shaped nutella & flax seed sandwich along with cheese crackers in the bottom tier. The top tier has a blueberry mini-muffin, grape tomatoes, green beans, carrot flowers, & smaller cheese flowers.

I made the carrot flowers by making small, v-shaped cuts along the sides of sliced carrots. The cheese flowers were made using a small plastic cutter that came from a set of fondant tools I’ve had forever. I also used a double heart-shaped cookie cutter on her sandwich.

 

 

 

 

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