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Daily Bento – 100 Bites To Celebrate 100 Days

4 Feb

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

  • 35 sunflower seeds
  • 10 fruit-filled mini wheats
  • 10 clementine wedges
  • 10 baby carrots
  • 10 pretzels
  • 10 goldfish
  • 8 cheese bites
  • 5 sandwiches
  • 2 all natural mango peach gummies

 

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Saturday Lunch

2 Feb

 

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!

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Daily Bento

30 Jan

 

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:

  • 4 bunny sandwiches
  • bunny cheese
  • bunny & flower carrots
  • celery sticks – they eat that too
  • clementines

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Daily Bento

29 Jan

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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Daily Bento

28 Jan

For lunch today I packed a turkey sandwich on a Hawaiian sub roll with two cheesy bears on top.

Saltines and a clementine round out this lunch.

 

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26 Jan

I normally don’t post lunch pics on the weekends but I thought today’s lunch was pretty cute and worth a quick post.

Camryn and her Dad had a park day today so I made her a quick lunch to bring with her.

Since the park sits right on the bay, they always take time to walk down the pier and watch the fish and the boats go by. Since I had fish and a boat cutter, I couldn’t resist.

I packed two dolphin sandwiches, cheese fish, waves, and a boat, Goldfish, and grapes.

 

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Daily Bento

24 Jan

For lunch today, Cam has half of a ham sandwich with little mozzarella chicks on top.

She also has strawberries, grapes, carrot sticks, and a couple grape tomatoes underneath.

In the other section she has tortilla chips and chocolate animal crackers.

Items used in this lunch:

           

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Daily Bento

20 Jan

Hi guys!

I was chomping at the bit to use Cam’s new Lock&Lock box so I made her a quick lunch in it today.

 

Cam has strawberries, tiny saltines (she loves those), grapes on the vine, a mozzarella penguin (for Penguin Awareness Day), turkey roll-ups on spinach, and some yogurt with a few colored sprinkles.

I hope you’re all having a great weekend! ♥

 

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Daily Bento

17 Jan

 

Camryn was so excited about this lunch this morning.

“You made me a kitty sandwich – AND IT HAS A SPRINKLE!!!”

It’s the little things.

Her lunch today also has a clementine, strawberries, celery sticks, mozzarella bears and three chocolate covered almonds in the little clover box.

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Daily Bento

14 Jan

I made corn muffins with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and corn for a dinner with friends last night. They were delish and I had so many leftover. So I packed a couple for lunch today topped with cute mozzarella elephants. I also added salami rolls-ups, tortilla chips, strawberries and celery.

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