This is just a little snack bento I made for Camryn on Sunday. She still wasn’t feeling great so she was eating smaller meals throughout the day.
In her snacky bento:
I was asked recently by FunBites if I would be willing to review one of their cutters.
I’m pretty sure that I was the only blogger left in lunch land that didn’t already have one of these. So I think you know what my answer was.
FunBites come in two styles: Cube It! which makes 12 square bite-sized pieces, and Luv It! which makes a geometric heart pattern and two smaller hearts.
I chose the Cube It!
Using FunBites is easy:
Step 1: Place FunBites cutter on top of food. Remove popper top and set to the side.
Step 2: Grab cutter handles on both sides, press down firmly and rock 5-6 times to cut through the food.
Step 3: Lift the cutter up, insert popper top and pop out the bite-sized pieces!
FunBites cutters can be used on sandwiches, fruit, veggies, pizza, burgers, tofu, omelets, cheese, pancakes, pretty much anything.
Seriously, these cutters are tough!
I wanted to do something a bit different with my FunBites Cutter so I used mine to make bite-sized butter cookies. The type of cookie really doesn’t matter here, just make sure your dough is nice and cold.
I like to roll mine out between two sheets of wax paper, so it doesn’t stick, lay it on a sheet pan, and then pop it into the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
Once the dough was chilled and firm, I used my FunBites cutter to cut out the dough squares:
Then I used the popper top to pop them out:
If your dough has chilled enough, you should get nice clean edges just like that up there. However, if your dough sat out for a bit due to… oh, I don’t know, kids who are on spring break and “need you” every two minutes – your dough might not come out so square. If that happens, just tap the edges down lightly with your finger. Easy peasy.
Cookies this size don’t need long to bake. Mine took between 5-7 minutes.
Ta Daaaa!
Cute right!?
Then I got to thinking about other things I could do with the FunBites Cube It!
I had a can of cinnamon rolls in the fridge – perfect! I rolled each of them out just a little and then used the Cube It! to cut little squares. These little cinnamon squares were a big hit with both of my kids. You can serve them with the glaze on the side for dipping as I did below or toss them with the glaze and let them set before you serve them.
I also made:
I just made a grilled cheese sandwich, let it cool for a few minutes so the cheese could set a bit, then cut it with my FunBites Cube It! I plopped a few on top of some veggie soup and it was lunch. If you like your grilled cheese to stay more crisp, just serve them alongside the soup rather than in it. Or serve it on a skewer with some lunch meat and/or a tomato in between for dipping, Yum.
And lastly…
If you’re buying croutons you need to stop it! It’s way too easy (not to mention cheaper) to make them yourself. They taste better too. I use whatever bread we have lying around, this is actually whole wheat sandwich bread. I cut the bread with my Cube It! then I tossed it in a bit of extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. Then I toasted it on a sheet pan in a 300 degree oven for a few minutes until toasty.
After using the FunBites Cube It! for a couple of days, I can see where you could literally use it for every meal. I used it for breakfast, lunch, snack, and even a sweet treat but you could also use it to make bite-sized appetizers or to cut food into a safer size for little ones.
FunBites are:
If you want to learn more about FunBites, or if you want one for yourself, you can visit their website: www.funbites.com.
Or…
Enter my giveaway and win one!
To enter:
1st: Like FunBites on facebook: facebook.com/FunBites
2nd: Like WSBFL on facebook: facebook.com/WeShouldBeFoldingLaundry
3rd: Tell me in the comments section below which FunBites cutter you would choose if you won, Cube It! or Luv It!
**Rules & other super important info**
You must complete all 3 steps to win!
The winner will be selected by Random.org on April 4th, at noon and notified by email. Winner has 48 hours to respond. If I don’t receive a response from the original winner within 48 hours, I will choose another winner via Random.org.
This FunBites giveaway is open to all residents of the US & Canada.
Disclosure: I received a FunBites Cube It! cutter to review. No other compensation was provided by FunBites. All photos are the property of WSBFL and opinions given in this review are solely my own.
* This giveaway is now closed.
The funk has invaded our house.
Both of the kids are sick and both have very different ailments.
The oldest is dealing with a stomach bug while the youngest has a respiratory infection.
How does that even happen?
Camryn has been eating small meals throughout the day so I didn’t make a fancied up lunch yesterday or today.
I did however remember a certain lunch that I made for her over a weekend last month that I never posted.
I actually can’t believe I’m going to show it to you because honestly, it’s not my best work.
Camryn must have agreed because when she saw it she said “Mom, that pig looks crazy.”
She’s right. There’s a creepy look in his cheesy eyes.
Cam was going through a pretty serious Angry Birds phase a few months ago so I thought it would be fun to surprise her with an Angry Birds lunch.
The only problem was that I wasn’t real sure what those pigs and birds looked like. I only played it once, ages ago after several minutes of pleading from my husband and daughter.
I’m not into the vidja games which makes me the odd man out in my household.
Call me crazy, but as a SAHM I can usually find something more productive to do like cooking, cleaning, or child rearing than sitting around playing video games.
I’m not knocking anyone that does sit around and play those games all day, go for it if that’s your thing – no judgement. But I have a really addictive personality and I have no doubt that if I started playing, even if just for fun, I would soon be hooked and before you know it, my house would look like a cross between the second half of a Harlem Shake video (you know, where the kids are on the counters with mixing bowls on their heads) and one of those houses on Hoarders.
Not pretty.
Plus, it would be kind of hard to justify my not working if my husband had to do all the housework and work a full-time job at night because I was obsessed with getting to the next level of Halo or Assassins Creed or Zelda or whatever it is the kids are into these days.
Yeah, I’d say my reasoning is pretty solid.
So back to my dilemma, I looked on the interweb and luckily those pigs are everywhere. Plus, we had some Angry Birds graham crackers and their little faces were all over the box.
So there’s really no excuse for what I’m about to show you.
Sigh…
I’m telling you, that’s a Halloween mask waiting to happen. Take note costume manufacturers.
I believe that behind that psychopathic glare is a chicken sandwich. His eyes were made out of mozzarella cheese stick slices and food grade marker. The mouth and eyebrows were made out of organic fruit leather. His teeth were also made from mozzarella cheese.
I also put strawberries, pineapple, cheese stars, fruit leather letter cut-outs, and Angry Birds graham crackers in this lunch.
Today is my wedding anniversary.
So I think it’s somehow fitting that the hubs offered to make lunch today.
I gave him free reign of the kitchen and all of the lunch making supplies.
He asked Cam exactly what she wanted for lunch and then went to work peeling, chopping, and arranging everything until it was just right.
It was so sweet watching how much time and care he put into making Camryn’s lunch.
It made my bento loving heart go pitter pat.
I know… gross.
Still, you gotta love a man who puts as much effort into the things that you love as you do.
Even if it is just lunch. 😉
Seriously. How cute is that lunch!?
In Cam’s lunch today:
Now that I know that he’s some sort of lunch packing savant, I think he needs a regular segment on this blog!
Have you figured out the theme for today’s bento?
I know… it’s pretty obvious.
I made Camryn a space-themed bento featuring her favorite planet (Saturn) with a few aliens thrown in for fun.
I’m pretty sure that when making a space-themed lunch for a 5-year-old, aliens are a must. 😉
In today’s lunch:
Happy Friday!
Cam’s school is the “Cool School” for the week according to one of our local TV stations. They were featured on the news all morning and the whole school did The Cupid Shuffle during the last segment.
We had to watch the coverage a few times before I finally saw her but find her I did. And I am pleased to report that she was dancing her tiny heart out & making her mama proud.
Let’s talk about her lunch.
In Cam’s lunch:
In Cam’s Easy Lunchbox today is a panda pb&j sandwich with some organic fruit leather cut outs for facial features. I also packed Annie’s Cheddar Bunny Snack Mix, cheese flowers, apple flowers, and grapes.
I found a fun new bento box while the hubs and I were out doing a little birthday shopping yesterday at Marshall’s.
It had sections, was BPA free, and cost less than $4. There was no way it was not coming home with me.
Pink is the theme for today’s new bento box lunch.
Because it’s Camryn’s second favorite color after yellow and before purple.
And because I have lots of pink bento stuff.
In today’s lunch I packed tiny heart sandwiches filled with Biscoff (made using this cutter), graham crackers, tortilla chips, grapes, and Annie’s organic cherry flavored fruit snacks which I also found at Marshall’s. Love that place.
Nope – not Camryn’s.
That’s crazy little monkey’s birthday is next month.
It’s mine!
So I made her a birthday themed lunch today.
Please excuse the picture quality. It was pouring rain and gloomy this morning so my pictures came out really dark and blurry 😦
I made Camryn a layered chicken sandwich cake with cheese decorations and stuck a little party hat on top to hold everything together. I also added pretzel tiaras, dried strawberries & apples, cupcake flavored goldfish, two pieces of vegan chocolate cake topped with bows to look sort of like presents, two grape tomato balloons, and the party cheese guy is back!
Can’t have a birthday themed bento without the party cheese guy!
I’m off to celebrate my birthday! I hope your day is fabulous ♥
What is it about Daylight Savings Time?
We lost an hour yesterday but somehow I’m all out of whack today.
What’s that about?
I’m great with the whole gaining an hour situation that happens in the fall, but the idea of losing an hour for no good reason is just too much for my brain to comprehend.
There was not enough coffee in the world to correct the zombie-ape like shuffle that happened en route from my bedroom to my kitchen this morning. You know the one: knuckles dragging, eyes half-opened, unable to process coherent thought or string together intelligible sentence structures.
And I had to put a lunch together in that condition. In a hurry too because naturally, we woke up later than usual.
On that note, here’s lunch:
In my sleepy stupor, I managed to finagle half of a chocolate hazelnut sandwich, some fruit leather tulips, carrots, grapes, and tortilla chips somewhat neatly into Camryn’s Lock&Lock box.
Then I noticed that there were only three colors happening in her lunch. Seriously, I can’t keep from spilling the same drink twice but when it comes to color coordination – even subconsciously, my skills are top-notch.
So I threw in a couple of pieces of baran to jazz it up a bit and called it done.
Happy belated Daylight Savings 😉
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