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.
Items used in this lunch:
Before we bento I need to tell you about Wednesday.
Wednesday started out like any other day but soon it became abundantly clear that I was not meant to leave the house.
I decided on a whim to venture out to Michael’s. I really wanted something other than a mason jar to organize my picks and other smallish bento stuff. I also knew that they had scrapbook paper on clearance which is reason enough for me.
I got lots of scrapbook paper at Michael’s for .19/sheet but found nothing to organize my bento stuff so I walked next door to Super Target where things took a turn for the worst.
I somehow cut my finger on the zipper of my purse while reaching for my phone. I cut it so bad that I had to run to the bathroom to get a paper towel to wrap around it so I wouldn’t drip on the floor.
Super Target was a bust so I drove to Super Wal-Mart (no shortage of super things in my town) where I finally found a container for my smallish bento accessories. As I’m walking out of the store, a huge gust of wind sucks the receipt out of my bag and proceeds to blow it around the parking lot. There is always a Police Officer in the parking lot so I had to at least look as though I was making an attempt to chase it down when he and I both knew that there was no way in hell I was going to get it. Am I faster than the wind? Not so much. I made a valiant effort though and then decided that was enough.
Then I drove straight to Cam’s school to pick her up where my SUV proceeded to over-heat while I was sitting in the car circle. Let me paint a picture for you: Two lanes – one way in, one way out. Once you’re in line, that’s where you stay until your kid is deposited into your vehicle and you proceed around the length of the car circle and back out of the school parking lot. Sure, you can try to drive around the line of cars in front of you but if a car is coming the other way, you’re both stuck and you look like a big jerk. So I made the move to end all moves. There was no one behind me so I threw it into reverse and drove backwards out of the car circle and into the parking lot. Friends, it was the stuff of dreams.
I parked, walked up to the school, got Cam, and we walked back to our vehicle which didn’t want to start once I turned the key. At that point how could I expect anything less?
Long story short, our SUV finally started, we got home safe, my picks are organized and our floor is really clean because vacuuming calms my nerves and there was no liquor in the house.
Here’s a pic of my super organized smallish bento accessories. Totally worth all that aggravation.
Today’s bento.
Lunch today:
It’s a bunny bento!
I realized that the last bunny bento I made didn’t have any carrots in it. What was I thinking? A bunny bento without carrots?
Today’s lunch is my shot at redemption.
In this bento box:
I can’t tell you how long I stood in my kitchen last night, looking at food spread out all over my counter and trying to figure out how to situate it in this bento box.
The issue is never what to put in the bento. I know what my girl will eat and what she won’t. For me, it’s more a matter of how to arrange everything. It’s similar to writer’s block. Where you stare at a blank page with an empty brain, waiting for an idea to jump out at you.
Well, I happily discovered that one of the sections from her Lock & Lock box fits nicely in her HK bento. That was a nice surprise. It also made it much easier to figure out where to put everything.
In this bento there are salami and turkey roll-ups, green beans, carrots, tomatoes, Ritz crackers, cheese, two blueberry donuts, and honey roasted peanuts in the little box.
For the donuts, I used a packaged muffin mix, added apple juice instead of water, and baked them in a mini donut pan. Easy peasy.
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