It’s a Valentine’s bento!
I know Valentine’s Day is tomorrow but I couldn’t resist making a sweet little lunch filled with love a day early.
And what says love better than hearts?
Nothin’, I’m pretty sure.
In today’s lunch, there are two chicken sandwiches, colby jack cheese, a Valentiney snack cake, apples, organic fruit leather, carrots (under the apples), and two gummy candies. And almost everything is heart-shaped. Sweet!
I was doing a little shoppin’ yesterday and I happened to come across a set of butterfly and flower shaped silicone cups in yellow (Cam’s favorite color) for $4.99! There was no way they weren’t coming home with me.
Since I had new butterfly shaped silicone cups, it seemed appropriate to do a butterfly bento.
The top section contains cheesy butterflies and strawberries with fruit leather butterflies on top.
I used my butterfly pastry stamp to make two sandwiches and put them in the middle section along with some fruit filled wheat cereal.
The bottom section contains Annie’s Organic Cheddar Snack mix.
I’m just going to go ahead and point it out (as if you haven’t noticed by now anyway).
I took the picture with the scrapbook paper upside down.
Insider secret: All those super cute backgrounds you see in most bento pics – most likely scrapbook paper.
That’s right. I just blew the lid off this whole operation!
Okay so not really, but it did deflect from my lack of attention to detail for a second.
Whoopsie.
Anywho… the contents of this lunch include:
The pretzels are shaped like cars and tiaras. Although I don’t think you can actually see any tiaras in that picture up there.
I snapped this pic with my cell phone whilst in the throws of a nasty migraine this morning. So please forgive the less than stellar quality.
For lunch today I packed strawberries and mango, pretzels, fruit-filled wheat cereal, chicken and cheese roll-ups, and a bag of all natural fruit snacks which have been a special lunch treat this week.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
For lunch today, I made a ham sandwich with a piggy face. I couldn’t resist.
I also packed grapes, pretzels, chocolate coated sunflower seeds, carrots, and Annie’s bunny fruit snacks.
What you see above is actually a bento made by a 5 year old.
I let Cam choose which foods she wanted in her bento, got out some cutters for her, and then just let her go to town.
Except for the cutting of the celery, she did everything herself.
It was so cute watching her arrange the cereal so it laid just the way she wanted it to.
The type A, slightly ocd apple did not fall too far from the tree.
For lunch today, she chose celery, carrots, fruit filled wheat cereal, strawberries, and cheese bunnies.
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It’s World Nutella Day!
Yes, that’s an actual holiday. And any holiday centered around food is a holiday that I can get on board with.
It’s also National Frozen Yogurt Day so if Nutella isn’t your thing you can always celebrate frozen yogurt.
Or you could celebrate both and have some Nutella flavored frozen yogurt.
If that’s not already a thing, it should be!
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to tell you that in our house, we prefer Jif Hazelnut spread. We think it tastes better and you get more for your money. And that’s not even a paid endorsement. Although if Jif wanted to send me some free product to review on this blog I’d be more than happy to accept it.
So I guess we’re not really celebrating Nutella Day here but we love our chocolate hazelnut spread none the less so I put it on a sandwich anyway.
Aside from the chocolate hazelnut spread kitty sandwich, I packed Cheez-its, strawberries, carrots, cheese stars, and the rest of the sunflower seeds that were leftover from lunch yesterday in the star box.
Today is the 100th day of school for my kids.
This means nothing to my oldest who is in high school. For him and his classmates, it’s just another day.
My daughter on the other hand, basically gets an all day party.
Kindergarten does it right!
Since I don’t have any letter or number cutters yet (husband take note) I thought I’d do what I had seen all my bento bloggy friends do and pack 100 bites to celebrate 100 days.
Thanks for the inspiration BBF’s!
I had to do things a little differently though. Since my kid eats like a bird, I had to plan very carefully so that her bynto wasn’t loaded with food. Because in the end I would have ended up throwing most of it out and I hate throwing food out.
100 bites for 100 days
Hi Guys!
Just stopping by to share a quick lunch with you.
One of our favorite dinners ’round these parts is also one of the easiest and fastest that I make.
I cut all natural chicken sausage, potatoes, sweet or bell peppers and a green veggie like asparagus or green beans roughly the same size, then toss them in extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, and herbs. The herbs vary based on what I’ve got. Herbs de Provence, basil, oregano, whatever. It all works. Then that mixture gets roasted at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes. That’s it.
I usually give the potatoes about a 10 minute head start. Sweet potatoes get a little longer.
Back to lunch.
Cam & I had last night’s leftovers for lunch today. I put hers in one of her bento boxes and added some cheese cut outs to her rice. We also had some buttered Puerto Rican sweet bread on the side. Yum!
Camryn put in a very specific lunch request last night at bed time. I leaned over to kiss her goodnight and she said “Mommy, I want you to make me a lunch with green beans, celery sticks with no strings, carrot flowers, butterfly cheese, salami, only six clementine wedges, saltines, and grape tomatoes but make sure you don’t put any squishy ones in there or I won’t eat them.”
So other than the carrot flowers and an extra strawberry, that’s just what she got. I made carrot chicks because my flower cutter was a little too big.
“What my baby wants, my baby gets” Name that movie…
So that’s lunch.
Happy Friday! Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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