For lunch today I put carrot and celery sticks, strawberries, grape tomatoes, salami roll-ups, and cheese crackers in Cam’s Goodbyn Bynto box.
I have to say that we are both loving the bynto. The stickers arrived in the mail yesterday and us girls spent a good part of the afternoon decorating the bynto and her Spencer bento box from PBK. That one definitely needed to be spruced up.
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.
Items used in this lunch:
Cam has two heart shaped sandwiches in the top section of her Bynto, strawberries and carrots in the middle section, grapes and tomatoes in the bottom section.
Cam and her Daddy are having a park day today so I packed her a fun little lunch that she could munch on when she got hungry.
We have a great park just down the road from us located right on the bay that has multiple playgrounds. Kids can run from playground to playground all afternoon and when they get tired of that, they can walk out on the dock and look at the boats going by or try to spy sea life under the water. Fun!
My two usually stay out a while when they go to this park so this will cover lunch and snack.
This lunch contains broccoli, strawberries, grapes, carrots, 4 hazelnut spread sandwiches (2 of each animal, stacked), and a small container which contains raisins and tiny chocolate candies.
Once I got everything packed, I realized that I hadn’t put any protein in her lunch so I threw in a cheese stick for good measure.
It’s a panda bento!
For lunch today I packed a panda sandwich, clementines, carrot and celery slices and a few panda friends to sweeten up Cam’s lunch.
Happy Friday!
Mr. Wiggles is no longer with us. He was taken in the night by the Tooth Fairy. No need to worry though, she left a note and a dollar so all is well.
The expulsion of Mr. Wiggles was pretty uneventful too. We were eating dinner last night and all of the sudden, Camryn stopped chewing, looked right in my face and with a mouthful of chicken said “Mom, I have something to tell you.” That was it, no tears, no freaking out. I cleaned up the tooth, rinsed her mouth out, and she went right back to eating. That kid is a maniac.
For her lunch today, I used the butterfly Lunch Punch from the “Critters” set to make her a pretty chicken sandwich. I used a butterfly fondant cutter to make smaller butterflies out of swiss cheese. Next to that I made flowers out of celery, carrots and tomatoes. I just used a knife to split the celery almost to the bottom, to cut notches out of the carrots, and to slice ends off of grape tomatoes. Easy peasy.
I packed strawberries and clementines in the larger section and pretzel sticks in the smaller section.
It’s 12/12/12. Had I been a little more with it and planned ahead accordingly, I probably could have come up with a themed bento today instead of a hodge podge bento. Oh well.
I made a quick pasta salad last night that consisted of veggie pasta, broccoli, peas, olives, tomatoes, chicken and mozzarella cheese. I threw the frozen broccoli and peas in with the pasta during the last minute of boiling time. Then I drained the pasta and veggies and mixed in everything else. I drizzled just a tiny bit of Italian dressing over the top and gave it one more good mix.
I slapped it into Cam’s bento along with some clementine wedges and a homemade carrot and pineapple muffin.
Lots of fruits and veggies going on today.
For today’s lunch I packed a turkey sandwich stamped & cut to look like a kitty. I also packed Cam what I call, ‘salad on a stick’.
Basically, you take all the makin’s for a salad that you would normally eat & put them on a skewer or food pick. If I add lettuce, I just fold it where it fits nicely on the pick. This is a great way to serve salad to kids. My daughter finds it hard to eat salad with a fork so this way works well for her.
On her salad skewers are tomatoes, olives, carrots & celery. I laid them on top of spinach leaves.
In the other silicone cup are cupcake flavored Goldfish.
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.
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