We Should Be Folding Laundry

I really miss being able to take pictures near the window in the natural afternoon light like when the kids were on Christmas vacation from school. It’s so dark in my house in the morning when I take all of my bento pics. Blah.

If my husband is reading this and wondering what to get me for my birthday, a better camera might be a good idea.

Just sayin’.

There’s a lot going on in today’s bento. I used small flower cutters to make one-bite salami sandwiches. I thought that would be the best way to pack that particular sandwich since often times, when you bite into a salami sandwich, the meat seems to want to slide right out. I also put carrot sticks, grapes, grape tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese flowers in a silicone cup.

I found a bag of Cold Stone ice cream flavored jelly bellies on clearance during a quick trip to Target last night. Couldn’t pass those up. I put a few in the little rainbow box as a special treat.

There are also chocolate bunnies and dark chocolate covered almonds in the other silicone cup. I used a piece of baran to separate them.

Cam is in a running club at her school and they run 10 laps every Wednesday. I think between the chocolate covered almonds and the jelly beans, she should have a little more pep in her step ;).

Finally, I added a sweet lunchbox note that I found last night during a search for ‘free lunchbox note printables’. Try it, there are tons out there. I plan on getting some laminating paper in the near future so I can print, cut, laminate & then use them over and over. This could be a cheap and easy gift for someone who bentos.

I think she’ll enjoy finding this little surprise in her lunch today.

For lunch today, I packed a dog-in-a-doghouse sandwich using one of the cutters from the “critters” Lunch Punch set. I have a feeling that Cam will pop that puppy right out and eat it but leave the dog house.

She also has celery sticks, pretzels, mozzarella cheese and strawberries.

It’s a dino lunch!

Sort of.

I found some dino cutters in the dollar spot at Super Target last week so of course I grabbed them. I already had dinosaur picks so how could I pass up a cutter for $1?

It didn’t cut as nicely as I would have liked. Next time, I’ll cut the bread before I add the filling and see how it does.

Here’s how this theme plays out:

I packed two (brontosaurus?) sandwiches in the very top part. The speech bubble is just hand cut mozzarella cheese that I used food safe markers to write on.

The orange in the middle section sort of looks like a dino egg with a t-rex hatching from it so we’ll go with that. Next to the orange are some broccoli trees.

In the very bottom section I packed fish crackers (dino food) and stars along with a shooting star box to represent the comet or meteor that may have wiped them out.

Today’s lunch was packed in Cam’s brand new Bynto from Goodbyn. I had been wanting one of these since the summer but was waiting for a sale or a coupon code. So when the 40% coupon showed up over the Christmas break, I jumped on it. These boxes used to come with dishwasher safe stickers but sadly, they do not anymore as I learned the hard way. I ordered stickers yesterday.

I can’t really do a solid review yet since this is the first day we’ve used it. Cam seems to really like it and is super excited about putting stickers on it. It is a little tricky to open and close but I know she’ll get the hang of it. It seems sturdy and fits perfectly in her lunchbox. As pictured below…