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Daily Bento

12 Feb

I was doing a little shoppin’ yesterday and I happened to come across a set of butterfly and flower shaped silicone cups in yellow (Cam’s favorite color) for $4.99! There was no way they weren’t coming home with me.

Since I had new butterfly shaped silicone cups, it seemed appropriate to do a butterfly bento.

The top section contains cheesy butterflies and strawberries with fruit leather butterflies on top.

I used my butterfly pastry stamp to make two sandwiches and put them in the middle section along with some fruit filled wheat cereal.

The bottom section contains Annie’s Organic Cheddar Snack mix.

 

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Daily Bento

7 Feb

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.

 

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Daily Bento

6 Feb

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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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

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

23 Jan

Cam had a big important test yesterday that took up most of her afternoon.

She still has another section of that test that needs to be done in 2 more weeks so we won’t know how she did for some time, but I know my daughter and even at 5, she takes academics very seriously so I thought a “great job” pick would be perfect for today’s lunch.

Cam has lunch meat and cheese roll-ups, carrot and celery sticks, tortilla chips, chocolate animal crackers, and strawberries for lunch today.

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Daily Bento

22 Jan

I ♥ our new Lock&Lock box.

The sections are removable so it can be configured many different ways to accommodate what you want to pack or how you want things to be arranged. There’s a lot of food happening today and it’s all fitting snug as a bug in that 6″x6″ box up there.

For lunch today I removed one of the divided sections and put a granola bar on the side, then I slid the remaining section up against the granola bar to hold it in place.

In the divided section there is a salad (sort of) of grape tomatoes, celery and carrots, and there are two butterfly sandwiches in the lower part.

On the side are four turkey and cheese roll-ups, grapes, and those teeny saltines that Cam is nuts about.

 

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