Tag Archives: Lunchbox Love

Daily Bento

12 Apr

Any time we have tacos for dinner, Cam always gets the leftovers in her lunchbox the next day.

That kid loves her tacos.

The challenge with taco salad is that you almost always have cold food that needs to stay cold, and hot food that needs to stay hot.

Cold taco meat? No thank you. Warm lettuce? Not going there either.

So I pack all of the cold stuff in one of her Easy Lunchboxes while I’m putting dinner away that night, and then in the morning, some seasoned ground beef (and/or beans if we have them) goes into her preheated thermos.

When lunchtime rolls around, all she has to do is put the ground beef on top of her lettuce and cheese, toss those chopped tomatoes over the top, and eat it all up!

Sometimes she crumbles the tortilla chips on top as well and then mixes everything together, sometimes she eats them separately, sometimes she uses them as little scoops. She’s fickle.

In the middle-sized section, she has a mixture of rice, black beans, corn, cilantro, and lime (also leftover from last night’s dinner).

 

 

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Daily Bento

3 Apr

 

Lunch is in the Yumbox today.

I love this little box. It’s just the right size for Camryn’s appetite. I think we’ll both be a little sad when she outgrows it.

Yesterday afternoon I made some vegan chocolate chip cupcakes for the kids to snack on and to toss into their lunch boxes. More and more of my baking has become vegan because it’s cheaper, most of the time it’s easier, and everything tastes just as good.

For lunch today, I tossed two of those unfrosted vegan cupcakes into her Yumbox along with some golden butter crackers, sweet pepper rings, carrot coins, pineapple, cheddar/mozzarella cheese, and some teeny tiny pepperoni.

It’s hard to tell but the picks on the cupcakes say ‘choco’. Adorbs.

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Daily Bento

2 Apr

Camryn helped me make dinner last night and she helped make the pizza rolls that went into today’s lunches so I thought this Lunchbox Love note was perfect.

She loves to help out in the kitchen and I’m a firm believer in getting kids involved in cooking and baking as early as possible. She still can’t quite reach the counter but with the help of a step stool she can certainly wash and snap beans, turn on the stand mixer, add ingredients to a bowl, stir things, strip kale leaves off of the stem, add pizza toppings to dough and then help me roll it up, and so many other things.

So in her lunch today she has two of the pizza rolls we made together last night. It’s just regular pizza dough with pizza sauce, cheese, and pepperoni on top. The dough is rolled up, sliced, and baked in a muffin tin until done. My kids love these. I actually make a version of these roll ups quite often for them using store-bought or homemade pizza dough. I just fill it with whatever pizza toppings or lunch meat and cheese I have in my fridge. Easy peasy.

Recently I came across this recipe and thought it was genius. Why hadn’t I thought of it!? I tried it about a week ago using spinach, carrots, mushrooms, and bell peppers and my kids loved it. So if you’re looking for a way to get more veggies into your kids, here you go.

Along with her pizza rolls, Cam has a fruit salad (grapes, orange segments, pineapple, strawberries), sweet pepper rings, and an apple cinnamon flapjack from our Graze box.

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Daily Bento

24 Mar

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Camryn currently has three loose teeth and she is hanging on to those teeth as if her life depended on it.

She lost three of her baby teeth at the beginning of last year and here we are, just a few months into 2014 and she has three more teeth that are ready to come out.

The irony is not lost on me.

What’s even more ironic is that the last three all came out while she was eating dinner.

So now that we’ve found ourselves in this predicament again, she’s been very very cautious about how she eats.

Live and learn.

Because all three loose teeth are right up front, biting into anything is not happening so I’ve been cutting her food into bite-sized pieces so that she can just pop each bite into her mouth. It’s much easier than watching her try to gnaw at it from the side of her mouth.

That’s not pretty.

So in today’s lunch, everything is bite-sized. In her Lunchbots Trio, Cam has leftover pizza cut into flower shapes, an apple, grapes, strawberries, tiny heart-shaped carrots, a piece of dark chocolate for a sweet treat after lunch, and a little Lunchbox Love that I think goes perfectly with today’s lunch.

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Daily Bento

23 Mar

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I recently received Lunchbox Love for kids volumes 1-4 from the very generous ladies of Say Please.

Lunchbox Love notes are cute and colorful little cards that contain a sweet and positive message on the front of each card, and a fun (and often funny) bit of trivia on the back.

Twelve cards come in each set with two intentionally left blank so that you can write your own message and each set comes in a reusable plastic case. A portion of the profits received from the sale of Lunchbox Love notes goes to help feed children around the world. Awesome!

There are several different sets available so it’s easy to find just the right set for everyone you love. They have seasonal sets, a set for tweens and teens, a set for your co-workers, your lady friends, and those who might need a little encouragement.

It’s so easy to toss these little cards into a lunchbox, backpack, binder, or notebook and brighten up your little one’s day. I think these little cards would also be a great addition to goodie bags at a birthday party, Christmas stockings, and tip jars. You could also tuck them into a drawer, leave them on a pillow, place them in a book as a bookmark, in a suitcase or briefcase, in a pocket, or anywhere you want to surprise someone and remind them that they are special and loved.

For lunch today Camryn had some veggie soup, a grilled cheese cut into small squares, strawberries, mandarin orange segments, and a little Lunchbox Love.

So far, these little cards have been a huge hit with her. She can’t wait to see which card ends up in her lunch tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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