Happy Friday!
For this happy bento, I used the ice cream cone shaped Lunch Punch on Cam’s hazelnut spread sandwich. I also packed strawberry fruit-filled Frosted Mini Wheats, a clementine, grape tomatoes, cupcake flavored goldfish and natural applesauce.
Camryn has been helping me make her lunches recently and last night she decided that the applesauce container needed a little something. So she ran to her room and raided her sticker stash for some decoration.
Happy Friday!
In today’s bento I packed two sandwiches filled with Jif Hazelnut spread, a cheese stick, grapes, tomatoes, tortilla chips, and a small juice box that fits perfectly in Camryn’s new bento box.
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
I ordered one of these bento boxes from Pottery Barn Kids last Friday:
They are $16.50 (except for the lavender box which is only $11.99) and all come with free shipping. Guess which one I ordered…
Yep.
I obviously haven’t had this box long enough to do a thorough review yet so here are some quick pros and cons:
Pros:
Cons:
So even though there are a couple of things I’d like to change if I could, overall I do like it so far.
If you’re interested, this bento box can be found here: http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/spencer-bento-box-containers
In today’s bento, I packed chicken and cheese roll ups, grapes, carrots, green beans, tortilla chips, graham crackers, and a fruit and oatmeal bar. Whew! That’s a lot of food.
I also want to mention that PBK included a $10 gift card in my package which I thought was super awesome of them. I’m not sure if that’s a special thing that they’re doing for the holidays and I can’t guarantee you’ll get one too if you order but you just might.
For today’s lunch I made a piggy chicken sandwich and put it in one side of Cam’s bento box. In the other, I loaded it up with fruit and veg. I sliced an apple horizontally and used flower-shaped cookie cutters to make them pretty. You can’t see it in the picture but I used a very teeny flower-shaped cutter to remove the core. I also used a leaf-shaped cutter for the cheese. In the same section, I put celery sticks, pea pods, and grapes.
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
Isn’t it weird when things just sort of come together on their own? Without meaning to, I created a frog/insect theme for today’s bento.
I cut some carrots into butterfly shapes last night using a small fondant cutter. I also grabbed the first CuteZCute insert that my hand touched this morning when I made Cam’s sandwich and it just happened to be a frog. The first pick I grabbed was also a frog. And lastly, when I tossed in some Cheez-Its, I noticed once they were in the bento that they were Spiderman Cheez-Its. See all the spiders?
There is some sliced celery under the carrot butterflies and the froggy sandwich is filled with sliced chicken.
I wonder if my little miss caught the theme at lunch time today.
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. I’m proud to say that Cam is in the no cavity club for another 6 months at least so that made my weekend happy.
For her Monday bento, I shredded up some leftover turkey and just put it in a little silicone up. There are a few Angry Birds graham crackers next to it. In the opposite section I packed celery sticks, carrot sticks, and a few grapes. I also quickly cut some colby jack cheese into star shapes & tossed them in as well.
Behold the bento that almost wasn’t. Pictured above, is actually the 2nd bento I made last night. As I was putting the first one in the fridge, it slipped out of my hand and all of my super nimble cat like reflexes weren’t enough to keep it from hitting the floor. Luckily, nothing actually spilled out of the bento box, it just got sloshed around and jumbled up inside the box.
So we press on because this is real life and sometimes we drop things and therefore sometimes we end up making lunch twice.
For today’s bento, I put some diced chicken breast leftover from dinner the previous night, in a silicone cup with some sliced carrots. Next to that are some french green beans (hericot vert) with some yellow grape tomatoes on top. In the other part of the bento, I put two banana muffins and a few chocolate covered almonds.
Happy Friday!
Cam’s hot pink bento has raw broccoli in a heart-shaped silicone cup and strawberries in the bottom tier. In the top tier, I wrapped salami around sliced mozzarella cheese and then used small animal picks to keep them from coming unwrapped and to make it easier for her to pop them into her mouth. I also packed her some Scrabble Jr. Cheez-It’s in another heart-shaped silicone cup.
I have a feeling she’ll probably spend more time spelling out words with her crackers then actually eating them.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
In today’s bento, I put a cute kitty sandwich and diced apples in one tier. In the other, I put sliced grape tomatoes & trail mix flavored Chex mix (with the Chex taken out). Cam doesn’t like Chex so I ate them. I also threw in a few chocolate covered almonds.
Once I cut up an apple, I put the pieces right into a bowl of water that I’ve added a couple drops of lemon juice to and let them sit for a minute. This keeps them from turning brown.
Camryn didn’t want a sandwich today. She asked for fruit and veg with a little chicken on the side. Her class eats fairly early and I’m finding that most days, she’s still full from breakfast so she hasn’t been eating all of her lunch. Other days she wasn’t even touching her lunch and when I asked her why she hadn’t eaten she said that she was too busy making up stories with her friend *eye-roll*. So obviously lunch isn’t high on her list of priorities at 10:45 in the morning.
Per her request, I made her a fruit salad of watermelon, orange segments and pineapple in the bottom tier. She has grape tomatoes, carrot sticks and sliced rotisserie chicken on picks in the top tier.
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