Happy Holidays!

Our last Christmas lunch for 2013 :)

We packed our Lunchbot Trio festively with:

• candy cane stripe apples
• Christmas Goldfish crackers with Stockings and Christmas trees
• four mini Nutella Gingerbread Men sandwiches and
• a few green grapes

We also (as always) found the perfect Lunchbox Love Card to match our lunch!

Happy Holidays to all of you! This is our last lunch box before Christmas and I will be enjoying some time off with my family!

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School - a Literary Lunch

Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man.

Oh wait...
That is how the original story of the Gingerbread Man goes but in the new book from Laura Murray, the Gingerbread Man is actually loose in the school and trying to catch up to the kids at recess after they forgot him in the classroom.

This is such a fun book with a new twist on the Gingerbread Man story!

The Gingerbread Man is even trying to escape our Lunchbots lunchbox! So, before he escapes...we packed:

• a half an apple
• a gingerbread man peanutbutter sandwich on a seaweed black board with cheese decorations
• strawberries and
• a berry cereal bar with fruit leather letters

Please head over to The Little Crooked Cottage to see an exclusive interview with the Gingerbread Man - and find out if he does have a belly button - and see my lunch there!

Star Wars Lunchbot

We still have 8 days before school starts and lunch packing will become more regular again. We have however been busy with our summer schedule of summer sports. I wanted to share this quick and easy Star Wars snack box I packed for my two little kids to eat while watching their big brothers play football.

We gathered our supplies and picked our food: apples, grapes, star shaped cheese crackers, a few leaves of salad and nut butter bread. I had recently won these fun Star Wars sandwich presses from Sarah from Blame it on the Bento and we already had a few light saber food picks.

Our Lunchbot Trio ended up looking like this filled with:

• two Star Wars nut butter sandwiches
• star crackers
• apples and grape lightsabers

And if you are wondering why we picked Darth Vader and C-3PO, there is a very simple explanation! They both in our Star Wars ABC book and on adjoining pages ;)

Things I used to make this lunch:

LunchBot Lunch

A quick lunch in our Lunchbot Trio:

• cucumber and cheese sticks
• salami sandwich
• veggie sticks and
• strawberries

I added a Lunchbox Love Card and marvel every day how far they have come this year!

Happy Friday!

We had quite a busy week and I am very thankful it is Friday. I am sure the kids feel the same and I wanted to pack them as fun end of the week lunch to brighten their day at school!

We packed our Easylunchboxes with yellow peppers and carrots, Pirate Booty, strawberries, a tangerine with a happy face, a sandwich wrapped in wax paper (so it won't get soggy since the strawberries are in the same compartment) and as a special treat a Milkini chocolate bar from Germany!

My oldest son also needed snack today and we packed his in our Lunchbot Trio: Carrots and yellow peppers on lettuce, crackers, half a coconut cereal bar and some American Cheese.

Have a wondeerful weekend!

A wormy lunch

The wonderful people from Fun To Eat Fruit send us a surprise package last week and my kids were so excited to get more fun apples in the mail!

They sent us two of their new designs (stay tuned for more fun to come) and today we packed lunch with a worm - literally.

We packed half a Granny Smith Fun to Eat Fruit apple with a cute worm design, Pirate Booty and a peanut butter sandwich with a gummy worm in our Easylunchboxes.

And the other half of the apple was packed for snack in our Lunchbot Trio with Somersault sunflower seed crackers and more Pirate Booty.

Easy Easter Toddler Lunch

A quick post for a quick and easy Easter Toddler lunch!

We made had a busy day and I made my daughter a quick lunch to go. We packed cheese sandwiches shaped like Easter eggs and Easter chicks with help of the cute plungers below, and also had apples, a cereal bar and bunny shaped chocolate chips.

This lunch was made with the following:



MSA Lunch

My oldest son has the first round of MSA (Maryland School Assessment) testing today and therefore we packed lunch with extra care today!

We packed home made snack mix (unsalted peanuts, white and dark chocolate chips), oranges, energy balls and three pitas filled with carrots, salad and turkey. Nestled on top are two small containers filled with mayo. We also packed a drinkable yogurt and ice water today to refuel.

I  packed a snack for the afternoon as well:

Lemon edamame, crackers and cheese and some apples are packed in our Lunchbot Trio.

Good Luck today!

Lunch Munch

We were gone Monday and Tuesday to visit with family but this morning we are back and packing lunches, snacks and a second breakfast!

Also, this is the last day to enter my Lunchbox Love Giveaway! Don't miss it!

We packed popcorn, apples and a puzzle peanut butter sandwich for lunch. They also brought yogurt and ice water and today I also added a Lunchbox Love Card! Yay for left handed Polar bears :)

Lunch #2 also has popcorn, apples, yogurt and ice water but for my oldest I packed a nitrate free ham and salad sandwich. He also has a Lunchbox Love Card which gives a whole new meaning to the mini van ;)

We are so excited that our yumboxes came and packed our first lunch in it today. I packed my first grader some of the new Chobani Champions tubes, apple bunnies, Naturebox cinnamon almonds, two mini chocolate chip cookies, two bear peanut butter and honey sandwiches, carrots and a few chocolate chips. He also has ice water and of course a Lunchbox Love card. Well, and now we know that we will never see a crocodile sticking it's tongue out at us, lol!

Since we have to catch up on some things and run errands I also packed my 3 year old a yumbox with a second snack breakfast. She has cheese, apples, carrots, Naturebox cranberry almond bites and some nitrate free ham.

My oldest also needed a snack today so we packed apple bunnies, a cereal bar and Naturebox cashew power clusters in our Lunchbot Trio.

Have a great day!

With Love

This morning was hard. I sent my children to school with lots of hugs & kisses and I love you's.
And I am thinking of those who wish they could do the same.

I packed them a special snack in our LunchBot Trio with star shaped pretzels a mini chocolate snowman, half an apple with a peace dove cut out and some German Lebkuchen. I also added an "I love you" Lunchbox Love note.

Now I am just counting down the minutes until they are home today.

Winter Lunches

When we woke up this morning frost was covering everything. It looked so pretty glistening in the sun. The sign that winter is on it's way and of course I made lunches to match:

My 10 year old packed lunch in his Easylunchboxes:

A Ham and Salad sandwich, cucumber slices and two Cucumber Christmas trees, snack mix with nuts and a cereal bar and as always an ice water and a yogurt drink.

My 7 year old chose a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with star shaped cut outs, cucumber slices and veggie sticks. Packed as well with ice water and a yogurt drink.

My 6 year old has a fairy bread chocolate spread sandwich, snack mix and cucumbers in addition to his ice water and yogurt drink.

I also packed my 10 year old a snack in our Lunchbot Trio: a half a banana with stars (I just simply pressed my mini cookie cutter into the banana and it made a design), cucumbers with more Christmas trees and some more snack mix.

Have you noticed that I am stuck between peanut butter and chocolate spread sandwiches? I sure do. So we announced this morning that those two choices are gone and we are packing some other foods next week. Their response: Excitement! They already chose grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for tomorrow - so stay tuned!

What do you think? Would you like to participate in a one week no peanut butter/Nutella/almond butter/ chocolate spread challenge and post your lunches on my Facebook page to keep each other motivated?

Simple Lunches

The first day back to school after Daylight Savings is always a little harder since my kids need time to adjust. Two of my kids were up very early and two slept in - so lunch today was very simple.

CuteZCute Sunbutter and Jelly sandwiches, popcorn chips, applesauce and a granola bar.

Two Sunbutter and Jelly CuteZCute frog sandwiches, popcorn chips and a few mini peppers. 

I also packed water and a yogurt.

Applesauce, more popcorn chips, a few dye-free chocolate Animal crackers, a CuteZCute frog fairy bread and apples in our Goodbyn.

I also packed a snack for my 5th Grader in our LunchBot Trio: trail mix, Somersault Salty Pepper crackers and apple bunnies. I found a great tutorial on how to make apple bunnies HERE.

Snack and Lunch

My kids loved the fairy bread idea so much that they have been taking it every day this week so far. I could not stir them into a different direction, so I am posting snack today first :)

For snack I packed some Enjoy Life Mountain Mambo Trail Mix , a cream cheese stuffed mini pepper carved into a Jack o' lantern, half an apple with a Jack o' lantern face and some whole wheat crackers. The snack is packed in our Lunchbot Trio.

Lunch is packed in Easylunchboxes and packed by my 6 year old :) He choose Goldfish crackers, Honey crackers, a squeezable applesauce and four mini chocolate spread fairy breads. I cut the shape of the car with one of my mini bento cutters and filled it with vegan sprinkles :)

Happy Lunch!

Snacktime with LunchBots

This year my fifth grader will only have 20 min for lunch which - compared to Europe where kids have up to one hour for lunch - is very little. Thankfully the class is allowed to bring snack and now I am sending a bigger snack and a smaller lunch so there is still time to socialize at lunch and he eats enough during the day! I remembered that I won a LunchBots Trio a little while ago from Bobbi's Bentos and I knew that it would be the perfect size for a big mid-morning snack.

My son was thrilled with the LunchBots container and picked his own snack today: Somersaults sunflower seed nuggets, veggie sticks and an apple and SunButter sandwich, yum!

Happy TGIF!

We survived the first week of school ;)