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31 Dec

Cam and her Daddy are having a park day today so I packed her a fun little lunch that she could munch on when she got hungry.

We have a great park just down the road from us located right on the bay that has multiple playgrounds. Kids can run from playground to playground all afternoon and when they get tired of that, they can walk out on the dock and look at the boats going by or try to spy sea life under the water. Fun!

My two usually stay out a while when they go to this park so this will cover lunch and snack.

This lunch contains broccoli, strawberries, grapes, carrots, 4 hazelnut spread sandwiches (2 of each animal, stacked), and a small container which contains raisins and tiny chocolate candies.

Once I got everything packed, I realized that I hadn’t put any protein in her lunch so I threw in a cheese stick for good measure.

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Daily Bento – Finally!

30 Dec

Hi Everyone!
It’s been a while. I took a break from posting to relax and enjoy my family. I hope you were able to do the same over the holiday.

I hadn’t been making bentos for Camryn due to the fact that we were either eating with family during lunchtime, eating out, or eating leftovers so there was no need.

I did make a snack bento for Cam to munch on while she was playing this afternoon.

I used a toothpick to write a quick message on her banana. The message will get darker as time goes on. This is only after about 15 minutes. I also cut a slit up the back of the banana to make it easier for her to peel.

She has clementines and grapes in the same tier with her banana.

In the other tier, she has a cheese stick sliced in half, Annie’s Bunny Friends and strawberries.

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21 Dec

He’s Coming!


Today is Camryn’s last day of school before she is off for the holidays for the next two weeks. Her class is going to be watching Polar Express today while they sip hot chocolate with marshmallows and munch on popcorn. She also got to wear her pajamas and slippers to school. Best day ever? I’d say so.

For lunch I packed her two gingerbread man sandwiches (one filled with chocolate hazelnut spread and the other with chicken), clementines, strawberry Santa hats, candy cane Hershey Kisses, and egg nog cookies.

The Santa hats are super easy to make. I just cut the leaves from each strawberry & blotted dry with a paper towel so that the chocolate would stick. I dipped them in melted white chocolate and sprinkled white sparkly sprinkles over the top of the chocolate before it set. Then I cut a marshmallow in half and stuck it on top. If you didn’t want to mess with melted chocolate you could use banana slices or you could use the bigger marshmallows, sliced horizontally & just stick them to the bottom.

Egg nog cookies are just sugar cookies with a little cinnamon and nutmeg added to the dough before baking. When the cookies are cooled, I add egg nog to powdered sugar a teaspoon at a time and mix well until it becomes thin enough to drizzle over the cookies. I drizzle over with a fork and then add some sprinkles.  That’s it.

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20 Dec

It’s a Christmas bento!

For lunch today I packed 3 gingerbread man cookies, clementines, 2 muffins that I added sprinkles to just before baking to make them more festive, 2 Christmas tree sandwiches decorated with sprinkles, and a candy cane Hershey Kiss.

I used a small star-shaped cutter to make the star for the tree. Then I smeared a little hazelnut spread on it and covered it with sprinkles. Voila!

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19 Dec

It’s a piggy bento!

Cam requested a pig bento today since she had a panda bento yesterday.

In this one, I packed a piggy sandwich along with two tiny flower shaped sandwiches. I had a little bread left from cutting the pig shape out and I didn’t want it to go to waste.

I also packed clementine wedges, Ritz Bitz cheese crackers, and 3 mini marshmallows in the tiny box. I had to include the mushroom box, pigs love mushrooms. Actually, pigs will eat anything. They’re not picky. I speak from experience.

I’m really not sure if those pink animals in the clementines are supposed to be pigs. I think they look more like frogs but Cam swears they’re pigs.

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18 Dec

 

It’s a panda bento!

For lunch today I packed a panda sandwich, clementines, carrot and celery slices and a few panda friends to sweeten up Cam’s lunch.

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17 Dec

 

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.

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14 Dec

 

Happy Friday!

Mr. Wiggles is no longer with us. He was taken in the night by the Tooth Fairy. No need to worry though, she left a note and a dollar so all is well.

The expulsion of Mr. Wiggles was pretty uneventful too. We were eating dinner last night and all of the sudden, Camryn stopped chewing, looked right in my face and with a mouthful of chicken said “Mom, I have something to tell you.” That was it, no tears, no freaking out. I cleaned up the tooth, rinsed her mouth out, and she went right back to eating. That kid is a maniac.

For her lunch today, I used the butterfly Lunch Punch from the “Critters” set to make her a pretty chicken sandwich. I used a butterfly fondant cutter to make smaller butterflies out of swiss cheese. Next to that I made flowers out of celery, carrots and tomatoes. I just used a knife to split the celery almost to the bottom, to cut notches out of the carrots, and to slice ends off of grape tomatoes. Easy peasy.

I packed strawberries and clementines in the larger section and pretzel sticks in the smaller section.

 

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13 Dec

 

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.

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12 Dec

It’s 12/12/12. Had I been a little more with it and planned ahead accordingly, I probably could have come up with a themed bento today instead of a hodge podge bento. Oh well.

I made a quick pasta salad last night that consisted of veggie pasta, broccoli, peas, olives, tomatoes, chicken and mozzarella cheese. I threw the frozen broccoli and peas in with the pasta during the last minute of boiling time. Then I drained the pasta and veggies and mixed in everything else. I drizzled just a tiny bit of Italian dressing over the top and gave it one more good mix.

I slapped it into Cam’s bento along with some clementine wedges and a homemade carrot and pineapple muffin.

Lots of fruits and veggies going on today.

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